This chart shows my sleep pattern - the coloured blocks represent times that I am asleep.

This chart just show my sleeps for 13/09/2012.

Thu 13 Sep 2012 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Total time slept: 7:07 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

23:33 to 05:14

(5:40 hours)

I think I probably didn't need the extra sleep last night in the end. I woke up naturally at 4:30am, and went back to sleep, and then woke up just after 5 and got up.

The good thing about waking up naturally is that there is absolutely no tiredness at all!

The fact that I first woke up naturally after 5 hours (300 minutes) suggests that I had 3 full sleep cycles, and that my cycles are about 100 minutes long. It might be worth permanently lengthening my core to 5 hours in the long run.

Sleep 2

16:25 to 18:18

(1:52 hours)

I was worried I wouldn't fall asleep for this one after such a long sleep last night, but in the end I fell into a deep sleep.

WhenI woke up I set another 10 minutes on the alarm which went really quickly and didn't really seem to make any difference.