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

This chart just show my sleeps for 16/06/2014.

Mon 16 Jun 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: 6:49 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

23:28 to 03:30

(4:02 hours)

I didn't fall asleep instantly, but it didn't take me too long to fall asleep.

I woke up really early in the night, probably between 1:00 and 2:00 from a dream which I no longer remember. I was only awake for a couple of minutes and went back to sleep.

This time I slept through until 3:30am when I woke up from a dream feeling hot, thirsty and with a full bladder...


Dreams:
Summer Heat
dream Dream: Monday 16 June 2014 03:30

Summer Heat

I am sitting outside. It seems kind of like the front garden of a house, but I think there are a lot of people around. It's very warm and sticky.

I decide to go for a walk around the block, and as I'm walking around I become aware of a radio broadcast. The radio says that the summer heat is causing an increase in violence and lots of people are being arrested for fighting.

As I walk around, I suddenly have violent thoughts and feel like I want to fight someone. Shortly afterwards I come to another outside area with lots of people sitting there, and they are arranged into two groups and I know that they are organising a fight. Although they haven't started fighting yet, the two groups are hanging around and preparing, and everyone looks pretty tough. I decide that I don't really want to fight anyone and go back to the place I was previously.

Some time passes, and I don't remember exactly what happens, but the next thing I know one of my friends is being followed by a couple of guys. The guys are big and strong and seem to be pretty hard, and although my friend is bigger than me I don't think he can take them on on his own.

As they are following him I move in and kick one of them in the legs. The guy flinches and my friend moves away and opens up some distance, but one of the other guys is still chasing him. I do the same to that guy, suddenly lunging out of the crowd and kicking him, then trying to slip away before he can notice me properly.

I do this a few more times, thinking "this is surprisingly easy", but eventually the guys figure out what I'm doing and come for me instead. When they get to me they beat me to the floor.

At this point I woke up feeling extremely hot.

Sleep 2

03:31 to 04:30

(0:59 hours)

I didn't sleep at all

I got up to go to the bathroom, and whilst I was in there I splashed water on my neck and on my forehead. When I got back to bed I laid outside of the covers, and the wet areas of my skin were instantly cooled by the slight movement of air in my bedroom.

I laid in bed for quite a while, not being able to sleep, but also not feeling bored or frustrated. It was nice to lay there.

After a while I considered getting up. When it got to about 4:20am, I thought "if I'm still awake in 20 minutes I will get up." I'm pretty sure I looked at the clock 10 minutes later, and then fell asleep after that...

Sleep 3

04:31 to 06:06

(1:35 hours)

I woke up again at about 5:45am, and then dozed off again until just after 6:00am. Unlike earlier in the night, I felt like I could have easily gone back to sleep, but I didn't want to wake up late so I got up instead.

Sleep 4

12:42 to 14:19

(1:36 hours)

I went for a nap on the sofa in the back room, as usual. It took me a little while to fall asleep, but I had a good nap once I'd drifted off.


Dreams:
Programming / School
dream Dream: Monday 16 June 2014 14:19

Programming / School

This dream contained a weird mix of work and school.

We are in a classroom, but we are also at work. I'm with a classroom full of programmers and we are all learning something and have to take exams. The weird thing is that most of the other people in the class are female, and if you've ever worked as a programmer you will realise that there are not many female programmers!

Most of the people in the class are people that I've never seen before, but I have been working with one of the girls in the class. I'm totally bored with what the teacher is saying, and I just want to get on with my work. I look for the girl that I was working with but I can't remember which one she is, but I think it is one of the girls on the desk next to me.

I lean over to speak to them and to ask if they are working on my project, but they are paying too much attention to the teacher to notice me. Then one of them asks the teacher a question. She starts "I know I've probably lost my bonus already, but..." and implies that if we don't pass the exams we don't get a bonus. The teacher (who I think is also our manager) answers saying that no one is going to lose their bonus, but we all know that we won't get the bonus if we fail.

Several times in the dream I tried to talk to the girls about the project but couldn't find them or got interrupted. I felt frustrated.

Sleep 5

23:51 to 05:31

(5:39 hours)

I was just nodding off last night when I heard a phone vibrating and it woke me up. It only took me a couple of seconds to drift off again, but this time the phone made a noise which snapped me back out of it. I looked at the clock and it was 12:05am so only 15 minutes had passed.

After that it took me another 10 minutes or so to fall properly asleep.

Once I was asleep, I don't remember waking until 5:30am this morning.


Dreams:
Wedding
dream Dream: Tuesday 17 June 2014 05:31

Wedding

Tags: Yu Lee

I dreamt that it was mine and Yu Lee's wedding day. I don't remember all of the details of the dream, but I remember a vague outline of the plot.

The main thing that I remember is that the whole thing was a bit of a mess! While we were on our way to the ceremony, we realised that we hadn't even finished giving all of the specifications to the venue or the registry office. There were a list of things that the registry office told us we need decide on, like the different options for readings and having our own vows, and even the music.

We had a lot of guests at the wedding, unlike what we are planning in real life. There must have been at least 200 people there, and we were outside. We were having some kind of reception first, and then the ceremony was due to start.

When it was time for the ceremony, we asked one of the guests to gather everyone round the spot where the ceremony would take place. As we were standing there waiting we went over the list of all of the things that we hadn't decided on yet, like the music, and we couldn't work out what they were going to do. It felt like the whole thing wasn't ready.

Our guests were taking ages to come over, and for some reason we didn't want to move from the spot because we were in position. I started waving frantically at one of the guests to try and draw attention to the fact that we were waiting, and eventually everyone started to slowly gather round.

I don't remember what happened next, but I remember thinking the whole thing was a farce!