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

This chart just show my sleeps for 12/01/2013.

Sat 12 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: 5:59 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

22:36 to 03:41

(5:05 hours)

Last night I was feeling sleepy so I went to bed at 10:30. I decided to set my alarm for 4:00am as I don't want to sleep more than 5.5 hours as it makes it difficult to nap the next day.

I fell asleep in about 10 - 15 minutes and actually woke up around 3:30am without my alarm. I laid in bed for a while but in the end decided to get up rather than falling asleep again just before my alarm goes off.

Sleep 2

09:07 to 09:47

(0:39 hours)

Last night I started to get some cold symptoms, and this morning my symptoms were stronger although still mild.

At around 8:00am I started to feel drowsy and a little bit ill, so around 9:00 I went to bed with a cup of rooibos and a book. After a short while I felt sleepy enough to take a nap so I laid down and drifted off.

I fell asleep almost instantly but coughed myself awake after just 10 minutes. I remember that my thoughts were drifting off in all kinds of directions and felt very dreamy. After I woke up I think it took me 5 minutes to fall back to sleep, but then I awoke after about another 25 minutes.

Now I feel much less drowsy! That was a very short nap but much nicer than yesterday's nap. I'm not sure whether or not I will nap again today.

Sleep 3

16:33 to 17:08

(0:34 hours)

I didn't sleep at all

I laid down and shut my eyes for half an hour while Yu Lee was in the bath. I didn't sleep though, and when she got out I turned the light on.

Sleep 4

17:15 to 17:30

(0:15 hours)

I slept a little bit

After I'd given up on the idea of sleeping I think I actually dozed off for a few minutes with the light on!

Sleep 5

22:29 to 04:33

(6:04 hours)

Yesterday my sleeping pattern was a bit of a mess! I had a nap early in the day because I didn't feel too well, and then I tried to nap at my normal time and failed. I felt sleepy at about 7:30pm and felt that I could have napped then, and also at about 9:00. In the end I held off of going to bed until 10:30.

By the time I went to bed I was knackered and fell asleep very quickly. I set my alarm for 4:30am as I didn't want to sleep too much so that I could nap properly the next day.

When my alarm went off this morning I struggled to turn it off, and somehow managed to turn it from vibrate to sound in the confusion, which meant it started beeping. I had woken from a dream about helping people at work, and in the confusion of turning off the alarm I forgot a lot of my dream.

Dreams:
SVG Graphics
dream Dream: Sunday 13 January 2013 04:33

SVG Graphics

Tags: Carlos Chris Beard

I only really remember the very last scene of this dream, and even that is a little vague.

We are at work. We are having problems with a tool that we use (although I don't think the tool even exists in real life) and I am helping people with the problem. It seems that the tool is no longer updated and there is an incompatibility with the latest version of Ubuntu.

There are 2 version of this tool: one version is a program that runs on Ubuntu, and the other is a web based tool. As a workaround I suggest using the web based version.

I don't remember who I was helping initially, or if I was just getting it working on my PC, but once I am done I go to see Carlos and help him with his computer. Right when I'm at the last step the new DBA ends up watching me so that he can fix his computer too.

The very last problem that I have on Carlos' PC is something that is not working right on the web version. I explain that it is something to do with the way that his browser handles SVGs, and the DBA asks what the point is in SVGs anyway, and why you wouldn't just use a normal image. I ask if he wants a basic demonstration of SVG and at that moment Chris Beard hears me and says something like "Oooo I want to see what this is all about too." He comes over so now there is quite a crowd around the desk.

I think about showing them my sleep chart (the chart on this website) as that is implemented using SVG, but I decide that I don't really fancy explaining my sleep pattern to this particular group of people, so I load up the online tool that we were trying to use. I click on 'view source' and find the bit with the source for the SVG, but it is very strange and confusing and doesn't look like it should. I tell them that this is a bad example, and that I will show them my site instead as it is a lot cleaner.

I go to my site, and am just about to click through to my sleep chart when I wake up to the alarm.

Throughout the dream I have a vague recollection that nothing on the computer was working properly. Every time I would try something it would not seem to work and it would take me several attempts to get it right.