Triphasic Sleep: Day 8

This is part eight of my Triphasic sleep experiment. Please visit this page for more info.

There are things that I remember doing, but in fact didn’t happen. There is some slight similarity to what people experience in mental institutes. You can’t tell dream from reality. You remember things that didn’t happen. Which is part of the reason why I am documenting everything here because right now, dream world and reality intertwines freely. At least when I am writing this blog, I know that I am not dreaming.

I discovered a sub culture of Guitar Hero 2 addicts on youtube and found people posting their videos with their score on the song called Trogdor at expert level. The current champion is at 180 000 points (By a 12 years old kid). So I decided to give it a try. Let me tell you, this mean song has sections where no finger can strum fast enough to keep up. So far, no one has perfect score yet. After one day of playing, I finally passed the song with a 80% accuracy and 70 000 points.

I questioned my motive on why I try so hard at this. Video taping yourself playing makes me feel like I must be on crack or something. I like this game because it is a game that requires superb motor skill and will help me understand my body even more. I can feel a new neuro network being connected each time I wake up, discover a new fingering technique I can now do when I couldn’t before the nap. My muscles are tired and my pinky is sore. I can move my ring finger and pinky independent of each other now. This, after only 7 days of practice.

I kept on going because I know that real guitar is harder than this. The reward I set for mastering this song is to get an iAXE for myself and start taking guitar seriously. Mastering… I set it temporary to hitting 95% accuracy on Trogdor.