Day One
Sleep Time: 11:30 - 6:00 (6.5 Hours Sleep)
Well, the important first day is out of the way and what a start! After being rudely awoken by my phone going off
and the clashing cymbalsl, pounding drums and eerie chanting of 'Sairin Katatsubasa No Tenshi' at full blast, I somehow managed to find the strength to drag myself out of bed. Actually that's a bit of a lie; I turned on the lights and sat at the edge of my bed, completely unaware of my surroundings, for about 10 minutes. I wasn't asleep but at the same time I wasn't conscious either - wierd huh? The human brain can be a magnificently strange device at times. But I did get up eventually, so you could say that Day 1 went off without a hitch. Who would have thought I had it in me to make such a dramatic adjustment without any serious problems?
So how was the first day on the new regime? Odd in many senses. One of these was the sudden shift in how I perceived time. It's almost like I doubled the length of my day; I had so much time on my hands that I actually got bored of shooting aliens on Timesplitters 2 pretty early and proceeded to do
3 straight hours of quotient and product rule questions for my summer maths homework. 3 hours! Don't get me wrong; I love maths and always will do but come on - this is the quotient and product rules. There's only one person who ever loved them and that was the person who invented them. Don't ask, I don't have a clue who. Probably Newton.
So aside from doing more homework in one afternoon then all of the last two months put together what else did I discover in my first day? Well... hunger! That's right I got a lot hungrier a lot quicker. I suppose such a dramatic change would bring about such a result. I ate at 7:00am, 11:00am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm, 7:00pm and 8:00pm. Seriously, I was like a little hobbit
. It was a lot of fun and I think I ate about half a pot of peanut butter in total by the time I settled in for the night. I love peanut butter.
My body clock was also surprisingly quick to adjust to the new pattern I had chosen. I was walking back from my friends house last night at about 10:00pm, after being thoroughly whipped on Mario Strikers Charged. Surprisingly I was feeling very, very sleepy. I expected my body to take a couple of days to catch up, but it wasn't so as on the first day my systems were already adjusting to the change. Very smoothly done indeed. This could be a lot easier to pull off then I thought.
I fell asleep bang on 11:00pm, about 3 hours earlier then I normally do. So all in all, I think I had a fantastic first day. Only another twenty-something to go.
Bring on Day Two!