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

This chart just show my sleeps for 05/08/2018.

Sun 05 Aug 2018 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: 7:15 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

00:18 to 06:21

(6:02 hours)

(no comment)

Sleep 2

11:07 to 11:49

(0:42 hours)

I slept for my nap in the bedroom again. When I woke up, I wasn't even sure if I'd been asleep, and the only way I knew I'd slept properly was that 40 minutes had passed and felt like more like 10.

I didn't have any sleep inertia, and could have easily gotten up, but I'd been tired and wanted to get a decent amount of sleep and was frustrated with having such a short nap. After recording the end of my sleep I thought I'd just lay there for a bit and see if I fell back to sleep...

Sleep 3

11:54 to 12:25

(0:31 hours)

I must have fallen back to sleep very quickly. I woke up half an hour later from a very interesting dream. This time I did feel as though I'd been asleep and was very glad to have gone back to sleep.

Dreams:
Weird Conversation about Next Door
dream Dream: Sunday 05 August 2018 12:25

Weird Conversation about Next Door

Tags: Link Yu Lee
Semi-Lucid Dream (L1)

Before my dream started, I'd gone for a nap and woken up about 40 minutes later. I recorded the end of my sleep and then thought I'd see if I could go back to sleep.

I drifted off to sleep very quickly and woke up moments later to loud music coming from outside. I felt very annoyed by this, and decided I would definitely be closing the window before my naps in future.

I went down stairs and realised the music wasn't coming from outside: Yu Lee and Link were listening to music and it was really loud. Yu Lee turned it down when I got downstairs.

Some time passed, and I went about my usual getting up routine and made some tea. Yu Lee was talking to me about how she'd arrived home from somewhere and some things had happened, but I wasn't really listening to the start of what she was saying. She continued, "and someone from next door was putting on their socks. They also had a guy from a band in their house, like the guy who was playing the accordion in our garden. You can walk right into their front room. Go out and have a look!"

What she was saying made very little sense at all and I thought that something wasn't right. I walked through the house (which looking back had a different layout to our real house) and started to wonder if I was dreaming. As I opened the front door I was bathed in bright sunlight that was so bright it washed everything in my vision out into white.

I now knew for sure that I was definitely dreaming and became lucid. I realised it wasn't the brightness of the sun washing everything out: the dream was fading away.

Things continued to get whiter as I stepped outside, and I leapt into the air and rose high into the sky. Things were virtually impossible to see now and I knew the dream was fading, so I span around in circles and rubbed my hands together in an attempt to hold on. This worked for a while, and I persisted in the dream for longer than I normally do, but eventually I tired of it and realised I would need to do this continuously to stay asleep which would defeat the whole point of being in a lucid dream in the first place.

Eventually the dream world faded completely and I awoke in my bed.