This is the continuation of the previous article:
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 1
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 2
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 3
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 4
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 5
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 6
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 7
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 8
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 9
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SLEEP AGAIN - PART 10
And again I fell again. I set up the alarm clock for 17 min and I woke up but then I reset the alarm for another 17 min and then one more time and eventually I ended up in bed. Altogether I slept about 6 hours. This is better than sleeping 8 hours in the past but still my objective of this experiment is to see if I can reduce my sleep as much as I can and substitute it with some other form of rest which gives me rest for real instead of making me worse in the morning.
Now is 2 pm. I feel tired. I notice some light symptoms of tiredness in my chest. I remember that in the past this feeling in my chest was stronger.
My head and eyes give me all the time the sensation of tiredness. But I can handle it. It is not like total exhaustion. I know that this is kind of shock for my body and if that is going to work then my body has to readjust and change the programing of the cells. My brain needs to change. My DNA needs to change. My body needs to clean the chemicals ( hormones etc. ) which were keeping me asleep at night.
If I am right that sleep is like an addiction than I will need about 3 weeks to reprogram my body to a new reality. It I realise that it may be 3 weeks of hell. In the end I have been addicted to sleep for some 40 years !!!
You'll know... this thing with experimenting with sleep now makes me to say to myself: "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING GREG?" and "YOU MUST BE OUT OF YOUR MIND !".
Well... maybe I am. But then maybe this the whole point of getting out of the mind and getting free from it !?
Anyway one thing is for sure. I trust myself and I trust my body and this gives me the courage to do and to try something like this.
To be continued