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

This chart just show my sleeps for 05/01/2013.

Sat 05 Jan 2013 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: 6:39 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

23:49 to 05:01

(5:11 hours)

After I reset my sleep I did manage to fall asleep pretty quickly.

I think I initially woke up this morning between 4 and 5. I woke up from a dream, and I laid there with my eyes closed trying to remember it. Unfortunately this lead to me falling back to sleep, and the next thing I knew it was 5:00am and my alarm was going off.

I don't think I could have been asleep for long though as I could still remember the dream.

Dreams:
Airport Security
dream Dream: Saturday 05 January 2013 04:30

Airport Security

I am at the airport. I have already been through security and have had my rucksack x-rayed, and now I am in a queue to board the plane.

Eventually I get to the front of the queue and the security guard asks me to stand with my legs open and my arms out. He frisks me down and when he gets to my pockets he finds something and stops.

"Can you empty your pockets please sir?" he asks me.

I put my hand in my left pocket and to my surprise I find a pocket knife. I pull it out and hand it to him.

"What's this?" he asks.

"A knife!" I reply.

"Why do you have this? What's it for?"

"It's just a general knife."

"You know I can't just let you carry a knife onto the plane don't you?"

"I've taken it on the plane before and it's never been a problem."

The knife is stainless steel, with a textured handle and about a 3 inch blade. In the dream I am sure that I have taken it on a plane before.

"What happens now?" I ask him.

"You'll have to put it in your hand luggage. If you'd just like to step out of the queue then we can deal with this."

I step out of the queue and feel annoyed as all of the other passengers move past me. I start to argue with the security guard.

"But surely I could just take it out of my hand luggage anyway!"

"I'm sorry sir, but that's the rules. Please put the knife in your hand luggage..."

Sleep 2

13:49 to 15:27

(1:38 hours)

I began to feel drowsy after my lunch so I went to bed at 1:50pm to sleep and fell asleep within 5 minutes. I suddenly woke up and looked at the clock and it was 2:10 so I had only been asleep for about 15 minutes.

I found it a little bit difficult to get back to sleep after that, but I think that is mainly because I started to worry that I wouldn't be able to sleep again. I think in the end I got back to sleep in about another 10 minutes and slept through until 3:10pm. At this point I took off my sleep mask and my ear plugs and opened the door so that I could speak to Yu Lee. I then dozed off again for another 15 minutes despite the noise from Yu Lee's computer games.

I thought this was going to be a frustrating nap and I nearly got up after just 20 minutes, but in the end it was very nice and I enjoyed dozing back off again. I think a lot of my problems sleeping are largely psychological.