This chart shows my sleep pattern - the coloured blocks represent times that I am asleep.
This chart just show my sleeps for 03/12/2012.
Total time slept: 7:03 hours
Last night I was starting to feel sleepy around 11:00, and I was thinking about what time I should go to bed when I decided I should just give up on my normal bed time and go to sleep when I felt tired. I felt tired for a lot of the day yesterday, so I think I may have accumulated a bit of a sleep debt, so I went to bed at 11:30 and set the alarm a little later, for 6:00am.
I fell asleep pretty quickly, and Yu Lee came to bed a bit later. I woke up when she came in and thought I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, but I think I fell asleep again in about 2 minutes.
This morning I woke up naturally (which was great!) from a very vivid dream. I dreamt that I was back at university, with a mixture of people from my school and my current work. I remember it being between lectures and I wanted a cup of tea, but my friends needed to go to the toilet and there was a massive queue.
I feel great this morning!
Between Lectures
Dream: Monday 03 December 2012 05:04
I dreamt that I was back at university, with a mixture of people from my school and my current work. I remember it being between lectures and I wanted a cup of tea, but my friends needed to go to the toilet and there was a massive queue.
Today I felt moderately tired when I came home for my nap. For the first time in ages I set an alarm, as I have been sleeping up to 2.5 hours for my naps at the moment. I set it for 1:40 hours so that I would have 10 minutes to fall asleep, and then 1.5 hours to sleep.
It took me a little longer than usual to fall asleep: I think it was probably 10 - 15 minutes. The act of setting an alarm seems to make it harder to sleep, as I start to worry that if I don't fall asleep soon I will get a short nap and wake up tired.
When I woke up I could have definitely slept longer, and I felt slightly tired afterwards but not too bad. Let's see if this affects the amount of sleep I need tonight.
Last night Yu Lee went to bed at about 10:30pm, and I was feeling a bit tired so I had another early night and was in bed before 12:00. It's difficult to tell exactly when I am tired enough to sleep and I think I went to bed a little bit early, as it took me a while to fall asleep. I think I laid in bed for about 20 minutes before I fell asleep.
I woke up at about 2:30am and felt like I could get up, but I looked at the clock and decided to go back to sleep. When I finally woke up again at 5:30am (without my alarm) I was having a really vivid dream.
When I woke up I still felt a little tired and I laid in bed for about 10 minutes. I feel quite tired now too and I could probably fall back to sleep in no time!
Gazpacho Soup
Dream: Tuesday 04 December 2012 05:27
We were visiting a seaside town and we met some people, and somehow we ended up back at their house. They gave us the guided tour and it was a massive 4 floor town house with a café on the ground floor that served up gazpacho soup!