Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:47 to 13:59

(2:12 hours)

I initially went to bed at 11:30am, and as soon as I laid down I realised how disgusting I felt! My whole head felt congested and hot, and I could feel the breath coming out of my nostrils and it felt extremely hot and uncomfortable. I put in my ear plugs just in case next door decided to make a racket and wake me up, and I put on my eye mask, but after about a minute I realised that the eye mask was just making my eyes feel extremely hot and took it off again.

I decided, as my eyes felt hot, to lay with my eye pillow on for a while as it has a lovely cooling effect, and it did make me feel a lot better. After about 15 minutes of that I took off the eye pillow, logged the start of my sleep and settled down for my nap.

I think it took me about 5 minutes to fall asleep and I woke up at 1:30pm. I looked at the clock and was pleased with the amount of sleep I'd had, but decided to have a little go on the eye pillow again because my eyes were hot again.

I don't remember falling asleep, but I do remember dreaming (although not what the dream was about) and all of a sudden being aware of my eye pillow. I thought "this can't be real - I've nodded off with my eye pillow on" which caused me to wake up.

Now I have a mild headache and feel quite nasty, but it was a good sleep and well worth it! Especially considering the poor quality of my sleep last night.