Sunday, June 21, 2015

Dietary changes helping with sleeping habits, the climate messes with them.

So, in my quest for better health I have found that choosing to not continue to chew gum is helping. How, you might ask? It's simple, the phenylalanine absorbed through the gum chewing is allowing my body to remain paralyzed for inordinate periods of time. This means that when I awake I simply cannot get up, and I've had episodes in the past where I will be completely awake mentally for HOURS and can't get up because my muscles still think I'm supposed to be dreaming.

And another bit of information, it is difficult to sleep multiple times a day, even moreso when it's hard to keep the room temperatures stable. With extreme weather, or at least extreme to me, I have been able to get to sleep at times but it isn't always effective. Therefore my sleeping schedule seems to be mostly still all over the place at the moment, however what is important in the way I have improved is that I'm currently doing my best to avoid sleeping at times where it would not particularly help my body. Due to the nature of living so far towards the North of the world in the summer what this means is that sometimes I only sleep once a day, just as soon as the sun is setting and then wake up some ~7 hours later or so. I have been able to have intermissions at times, although I typically require the assistance of an alarm clock of some sort.

Right now it's not looking very good for polyphasic sleeping pattern arguments, but I think a lot of that inability must be contributed to the length of time the Earth faces the Sun from this angle every 24 hours, which is excessive for my preference. In other words, it just gets too hot and dry to relax. I think though, that if I eat enough and eat well enough then perhaps I can do greater with my sleeping habit efforts. In the meantime, I and others agree that doing some meaningful work can encourage my physical body to comply with my plans. Another tidbit of information is that during this summer I been turning a cool air humidifier on, and that has been an enormous help in maintaining a proper breathing atmosphere. I also got a bedroom plant for this purpose, and I think I may need to get a bigger pot for it very soon.