I don't know what's up today but something magical is happening. I was at the gym and all I did was walk the track then ten minutes of light rowing and a good 30 minute stretch. From what I could tell there were two really cute girls eyeing me up while I stretched. Maybe this whole not sleeping thing is emiting some sort of super pheramone cause it gets better. I got to work and went to Subway to grab some chocolate milk for my protein and this cute girl said she had a big order and that I could go ahead. Then she starts chatting me up asking me where I work and what not. I was in total shock. I have determined that there are 1 of 2 posibilities. #1 I am so sleep deprived that I am hallucinating. In this scenario I assume that cute girl at subway was a cardboard cutout that you often see.....Still she totally was interested. #2 Girls like guys who look so incredibly tired they might drop dead at any time lol. I seriously walk slow like a zombie have bags under my eyes and actually one of my eyes has become a little bit lazy (this happens whenever I am sleep deprived otherwise it goes away.)
While I was rowing the pain in my left shoulder returned. It was a very sharp pain like my shoulder was injured rather than just sore. I kept rowing however and found that it only bothered me when I made sudden pulling movements and when it was at a certain angle.
I was feeling quite sleepy in the office today and my stomach was starting to get sore. By sore I mean Gastritis. For those who don't know gastritis is the inflammation of the stomach lining. It seems my body is confused as to when it is supposed to release acid into my stomach. This makes sense as I am usually eating every time that I wake up. It seems like my body just keep producing stomach acid however and now it is leading to this inflammation. I am going to take a PPI (proton pump inhibitor) as it will decrease the amount of stomach acid produced.
Thinking more about this, it's actually kind of a good sign. It means that my body realizes that it has to make changes. That the old system of just releasing stomach acid when I eat doesn't work cause I am constantly eating now. This means it is trying to adapt, unfortunetly its overcompensating.
I hit a wall at about 3:30pm and was the most tired I have been since I started my polyphasic sleep pattern. I had trouble keeping myself awake at the desk. I got up and walked around, went to grab some food, tried my yoga stretches. Each time when I went back to my chair I just wanted to fall asleep. The only thing that kept me up was sheer will.
After this I had a poor 5 pm nap which surprised me as I was so tired. The nap was in my office which I had never done before. I did not have a pillow or blanket, I was just laying on the floor using some coveralls as a pillow. Oddly however I did not remain tired when I went for my mandarin lesson at 5:40pm. I was able to stay very alert and was not drowsy though again I did have some trouble focusing.
My 9pm nap was again in the office but this time I brought in my pillow and blanket from the car. I ended up oversleeping this nap by 40 minutes, waking up at 10pm and being completely and utterly disoriented. First I didn't understand why I was in the office, I thought I might have been dreaming. Then when I realized I didn't know why I was still in the city but felt the compelling need to go back for some reason. I did this and the remainder of the night was fairly average.
I have started to feel like I get extremely varient energy swings. I would feel like I had too much energy then I would be dead tired. I find these happen due to whatever stimuli was around me. For example when I was chatting with my Mandarin tutor I was extremely engaged even after the lesson we just talked about life for a couple hours and not once did I feel tired at all. These same swings have been apparent in my sex drive. For a vast majority of my time awake I would say I have a lower sex drive than usual (This does seem logical as sex drive will decrease with sleep deprivation). There are times where I have a very strong upward swing in my sex drive. This could be important because of the link between testosterone, sleep, sex drive, and working out (muscle recovery).
No comments:
Post a Comment