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

This chart just show my sleeps for 16/05/2014.

Fri 16 May 2014 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: 6:48 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

23:57 to 05:00

(5:03 hours)

Last night I went up to bed just after 11:30pm and I was pretty tired. When we got in bedroom, the first thing that I noticed was a fly buzzing around. There was no way I was going to go to bed with it flying around so I spent the next 20 minutes trying to get rid of it.

After a long and epic battle the fly suddenly stopped. I don't think I'd killed it, although I had hit it a couple of times with a piece of cardboard, but it had either left the room or crawled into a crevice to die. I decided it wasn't going to be bothering me any more and turned the light off and went to sleep.

I fell asleep quickly and slept through until the alarm, and I'm pretty sure I was dreaming this morning the but alarm seemed to erase the dream from my memory. I felt really tired and had to sit cross legged on the floor for a few minutes while I properly woke up.

Sleep 2

13:06 to 14:55

(1:48 hours)

I fell asleep pretty quickly and was sleeping deeply when the alarm went off.

When I woke up I knew I'd dreamt but couldn't remember the dream. I laid in bed for a few minutes listening to the alarm and piece by piece, the last part of the dream came back to me.

Once I was satisfied that I wasn't going to remember any more I turned off the alarm and took some notes.

This was a nice nap!

Dreams:
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dream Dream: Friday 16 May 2014 14:55

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Tags: Dad Sue Yu Lee

A recurring theme in this dream, especially in the parts I don't remember well enough to write down was architecture. I'm pretty sure the first part had something to do with my house, and possibly with getting work done on the house, or wanting to get work done on it.

I'm at home with Yu Lee, except our house is totally different and is in Spain. I was in the garden, and I'm pretty sure we were looking at barbecues at some point. As part of some research for something I'm watching Hollyoaks or something similar on my laptop in the garden.

With about 5 minutes to go my dad and step-mum arrive in their car and park in our garden (which is very similar to my dad's garden and goes right around the house, containing the drive). As I don't want to be ridiculed I quickly close off my tv program.

We are in the garden for a while and I talk to my dad about barbecues and tell him I want a new one. I show him some pictures on the laptop and ask him what he thinks of 'outdoor kitchens' with built in sinks.

The discussion moves on to dinner, and my step-mum says "We were going to go out to a nice little place just outside of Torrevieja, but we can't take the car that far so we'll need to go somewhere in walking distance." I ask why we can't drive and she goes on to explain that she's selling her car, and she's just had the odometer rolled back to 3000 miles and can't let it go too far over when she sells it. I remember thinking you'd never get away with that in England.

"I can drive" I reply, "or more precisely I can drive us there and Yu Lee can drive us back because I'll be drunk!"