I had a really productive night in the early hours getting a load of actual work out of the way without any interruptions. Things were looking up.

However when the 6am nap rolled around, once again I just couldn’t get to sleep at all.

I am hoping that once my body finally works out what a nap is for, it will quickly adjust to REM sleep in these naps. If however I go through a prolonged period of not napping at all, or napping without REM for a period while the body gets used to napping, then this could crash and burn quite quickly.

I have so far found a couple of tools to help me on this journey – I have been using a ‘white noise’ recording which I found online. It’s a 26min recording of white noise designed to block out outside noises, after that 26min thre is a series of alarms/music etc in an ever increasing volume. I’m hoping that this will both help me get to sleep in my nap times and also help stop me over sleeping once I am asleep.