Another week has gone by, not quite as smoothly as the first. I’ve overslept during my core sleep fairly often, missed naps, and generally not kept to the schedule like I should. Missing naps isn’t as harmful as I thought it’d be, but oversleeping during the core sleep seems to be the death knell for being lucid during the day.
Of course, it’s all too easy to oversleep. Even if I DO hear the alarm, which isn’t guaranteed at all, I need to find the willpower to get out of my comfortable, warm bed and get moving. This’ll become easier with practise, I imagine, but I’ll still be increasing the volume of my alarm anyways!
Other things of note include an increased appetite. Waking up early means I’m hungry early, which means by the time 9:00am rolls around I am STARVING. I’m going to need to develop better eating habits, since my old tendency to miss meals altogether if something shiney distracts me will get me in trouble here.
I’ve also slightly tweaked my schedule for naps: my third nap has been moved forward to about 6:00pm to coincide with my ride home. Since I’m either hitching a ride with someone else or taking public transit, this’ll mean I’m making good use of a great deal of wasted time each day that would otherwise just be spent twiddling my thumbs. All I’d ever do on the bus is think, anyways, and I can do that with my eyes closed, too!
