On Thursday evening I went on a nice long walk, far far too cold and I was unprepared. Had my dinner, oats and veggies, and was ready to start my workouts and writing. Put on a podcast as I ate, cleaned up and decided to relax for fifteen minutes before doing anything. It was about 7 in the evening. The next thing I know, it's gotten to 11. I wake up, scared that I won't be able to get a proper night's sleep, and head to the bedroom to read a bit before writing and doing other chores, because I wannt sleeping after the long nap. And the next thing I know...it's 6am, my alarm is going crazy, and a work meeting is about to begin.
The depth and the urgency of the sleep was a bit shocking, I've rarely ever slept like this way before. And it couldn't be repeated, I thought. So on Friday evening when I found myself at home after a nice long walk, and a dinner, figured I would not repeat the previous night, nuh uh no way. So I setup a 20 minute timer in case I slept somehow. Ended up doing that 9 more times, and even then the sleep won, the need to sleep was far too powerful and I just couldn't force myself out of the slumber. This is probably how the mountain climbers feel during snow storm. They're tired, weak, and feel they'll rest just for a little bit and then catch up with everybody else, next thing they're frozen for a thousand years unable to be recovered because it's too hard for the rescue helis to recover dead bodies due to unpredictable weather.
My next trick to avoid unexpected sleepies will be to go on a walk if I feel like sleeping at an inopportune time. It won't make me more productive or get me doing what needs to be done, but at least I won't be napping needlessly, and my mind and body will be getting workouts.
I'm fairly certain these occurrences were not due to lack of proper sleep, though I did average about 6 hours of sleeping time nightly last week. Or maybe it was unavoidable.....
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