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

This chart just show my sleeps for 05/02/2013.

Tue 05 Feb 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: 7:10 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

22:54 to 04:14

(5:20 hours)

Last night I fell asleep in a few minutes, and slept through solidly until 3:50am this morning when I woke up from a dream. In my dream Yu Lee drove her car into the sea and this made me wake up!

Initially I marked my sleep as finished then, but in the end I laid in bed and dozed until about 4:15, and then I got out of bed at 4:20.


Dreams:
Driving on the Rocks
dream Dream: Tuesday 05 February 2013 03:50

Driving on the Rocks

Tags: Yu Lee

I am on holiday with Yu Lee and 2 boys (I think they were people I knew from school) and we are in Yu Lee's car. We have gone out somewhere for the day and we are now driving back to the hotel.

As we are driving we suddenly pull out onto a road that is high up on the hills, and we have an amazing view of the beach and sea. I comment on the fact that we had never seen this view on the way out in the morning.

We are driving up and down over the hills very close to the sea, and the terrain is getting rougher and rougher. Yesterday in real life I booked a driving lesson and the instructor drives a diesel, and me and Yu Lee were talking about the difference between petrol and diesel cars before bed. In my dream I ask the others which they think is better and they all say petrol.

The terrain is getting ridiculous now and I ask Yu Lee if she is sure we are going the right way. She says "yes" and we continue. All of a sudden we are driving on rocks and I tell her to turn the car around but she assures me it is ok.

Now we are driving on rocks just a few centimetres higher than the water. We come to a place where the only way to progress involves driving through a 2 metre wide section of water, and up a steep sand bank. Yu Lee puts her foot hard on the gas and powers through the water and up the bank, but she can't quite get to the top.

The wheels are spinning beneath the car and it is swerving from side to side. She realises she won't make it and takes her foot off the accelerator and the car rolls backwards down the bank and into the sea. Water starts filling up the car.

I wake up in my bed with a major adrenaline rush!

Sleep 2

16:10 to 16:31

(0:20 hours)

I didn't sleep at all

When I got in today I wasn't sure if I would sleep or not, and as you can see I recorded 20 minutes of 'did not sleep'. I'm not sure whether I would have been better off going for my nap a little later.

Sleep 3

16:31 to 17:55

(1:23 hours)

After I reset the timer, I'm pretty sure it took at least 10 minutes to fall asleep, so in total it took me about 30 minutes to be properly asleep. When I did get to sleep I slept solidly until I heard Yu Lee coming up the stairs at about 6:00pm.

The 30 minutes of trying to fall asleep didn't really feel that long and it was definitely worth it in the end!

Sleep 4

22:27 to 04:20

(5:53 hours)

I didn't feel particularly tired last night when I went to bed, but I still think I fell asleep in about 10 minutes. It was certainly easier to fall asleep last night than it was for my nap.

I slept solidly through the night and woke up naturally about 10 minutes before my alarm was due to go off. I felt like I could have easily fallen asleep again but there was obviously no point if my alarm was going to go off in 10 minutes! Even though I was tired it was still better than waking to the alarm.