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

This chart just show my sleeps for 16/09/2012.

Sun 16 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: 7:27 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

00:38 to 05:32

(4:53 hours)

This morning I have some sleep inertia, but I don't feel too sleepy. I also have some very mild hangover feelings.

I had 1 small bottle of beer and 1 glass of wine last night, and that was quite a few hours before sleeping, so I am surprised to be feeling it this morning.

I woke up from dreaming but I don't remember the dream.

Sleep 2

16:14 to 18:18

(2:04 hours)

We are in London now, visiting Yu Lee's mum. I am going to stay here for a few days because I have a course on Monday and Tuesday.

When we arrived in London, we had a massive lunch and then went rollerblading in the park with Yu Lee's mum. After this we were quite tired, and we settled down for a nap and set the alarm for about 2 hours.

I think 2 hours works much better for a nap than 90 minutes. We both woke up feeling refreshed and had virtually no sleep inertia.

I don't remember what I was dreaming about, but I am sure I had a long and complicated dream just before I woke up. Waking up for the alarm clock is not very good for my dream recall though, and my memories of the dream faded straight away.

Sleep 3

23:30 to 05:26

(5:56 hours)

Last night I went to bed 1.5 hours early as I was feeling tired and I wanted to feel alert for my course today.

This morning I actually woke up 4 minutes before my alarm went off! I think that means that 6 hours was about the right amount of time.

I do still feel slightly sleepy.