Thanks for the info.
For anyone following along most is going quite well. Yesterday I skipped a nap, and moved back my last nap due to events with friends and ended up oversleeping till this morning, this isn't too unexpected, no big, I just jumped back on.
A bigger and more important change was that from 2:30-3:30 I was useless and my 12pm nap after my physics class was easy to get to so i'm moving it back to 3-6 because I still think on weekends i'll end up out sometimes until the 3am nap time. So, I was able to tweak my times a bit to fit my lifestyle.
Also, I often move my naps around 10-20 mins either way of the nap time and that usually goes just fine. One helper is putting the alarm clock nexto the light, and a planned activity.
Also, with the short naps it has made it very easy to destroy any kind of insomnia, right now, taking more than 4 minutes to get into a regenerative brain wave (possibly not unconscious but regenerating (not thinking hard)) is the exception to the norm.
One helpful thing for quick naps for me is encouraging my mind to entertain passive (not created completely by intention) images which mirror dreams in their ability to run on their own (whether I am awake or not). Thinking hard during a nap just wont cut it.
As for the most recent change my alarm has recently changed from BEEP BEEP BEEP to meditation music by the frantic worries of thine mother, more on the recieved social commentary during the change, possibly the subject of another thread. In short: people think PD, while good in theory, possibly executed over a very long period of time, WILL harm you if sped up and gotten over with.
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