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

This chart just show my sleeps for 17/02/2015.

Tue 17 Feb 2015 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: 7:33 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

00:10 to 05:57

(5:46 hours)

(no comment)


Dreams:
Seeking the Sun
dream Dream: Tuesday 17 February 2015 05:57

Seeking the Sun

Tags: Yu Lee

I don't remember much from the first part of the dream, but I'm pretty sure that I was missing the sun, just as I am in real life. I decided that the only way to fix this was to go and visit a hot country so Yu Lee and I went to UAE (United Arab Emirates) to get soak up the sunshine. I have no idea why I'd go there in my dream because it's certainly not somewhere I plan on visiting in real life!

We could basically take our pick of where to visit so we looked on the map and picked a spot at random. The map of UAE in my dream was actually a map of Saudi Arabia, but I guess that's pretty close really!

I'm not sure how we get there but the next thing I remember is arriving at the beach. When we got there the beach was full of westerners, mainly other English people. I remember being surprised that there were no locals there at all and thinking that it felt comfortable as I know exactly how to act around other English people.

It was really hot on the beach. The main thought going through my head was that I didn't want to get sunburnt, and the first thing we did when we got there was to put on a load of sun cream. After that we decided to go for a wander around and we also wanted to find a place that we'd seen on the internet where there were a series of giant stepping stones in the water. We asked one of the other tourists where the stepping stones were and he told us that they were not at the beach and were a short way up a river. We looked on the map and the river was miles away, so instead we decided to go back to our hotel.

The hotel was quite odd. It was a single storey building that was split up into a number of apartments. Each room was more or less like a self contained flat, but they weren't very big and it felt like a lot of people were crammed into a small space.

In the room was a small black remote control with a red button on either side. I was curious as to what it did so I pressed the buttons together, and as soon as I did so a little symbol with a red flame on it lit up on the remote and the fire alarm went off.

I was totally surprised by the reaction I got. Firstly I wasn't expecting it to set off the alarm, but even more surprising was the reaction of all of the people in the apartment building. Everyone dropped what they were doing and started to run around, and the receptionist was screaming "We've got a fire! I know it's a real one because someone's manually set off their alarm!"

Someone came into our room and I told them that I didn't mean to set the alarm off so they helped me disable it. Everyone went back to what they were doing before and the receptionist seemed to be very angry with me. The man who'd disabled my alarm explained to me how it worked, and he said if you disable it within a second the alarm won't go off, and then he proceeded to press the buttons so that the symbol lit up again and then immediately pressed them again deactivating it. He did this a couple of times and each time I did it my heart skipped a beat at the thought of the alarm going off again.

Sleep 2

12:27 to 13:46

(1:19 hours)

This morning I was pretty busy, and then at 2:00pm a builder was due to come round to give us a quote. I had to set my alarm a bit earlier than I normally would have so that I had time to get up and make tea before he turned up.

When the alarm went off I did not want to get up!

Sleep 3

23:32 to 05:58

(6:25 hours)

Last night we were still working on our website at 11:00pm and was exhausted. I sat down and had an infusion and then went straight to bed.

I didn't fall asleep instantly but I was super relaxed and was asleep before midnight. I'm sure I had at least 2 dreams in the night and I was definitely dreaming when I woke up, but I only remember one fragment of an earlier dream now. I also had major sleep inertia when I woke up and it took a lot of will power to not get back into bed.


Dreams:
Ben Drinking
dream Dream: Wednesday 18 February 2015 03:00

Ben Drinking

Tags: Ben Tyler Mum

I dreamt that I was back at my mum's house at 35 York Avenue. My mum was somewhere around the house, possibly in the kitchen, and I was in the living room with Ben. Ben was drinking something alcoholic.

At one point Ben was sick a little bit in his mouth, but it wasn't like normal vomit: there was a big lump of something hard and it was poking out of his mouth a little bit. He put his finger up to his mouth and pushed it back in and swallowed it. I was pretty disgusted by this, and my mum came in just afterwards, so I decided to leave Ben in the living room with my mum and go up to my room before things got any worse.

I'd only been in my room for a couple of minutes when I heard him being sick. Somehow I knew he'd been sick on the ceiling…