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

This chart just show my sleeps for 20/12/2012.

Thu 20 Dec 2012 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: 7:36 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

22:57 to 05:00

(6:02 hours)

Last night I went to bed at 11:00 with Yu Lee, but I wasn't that tired and I probably should have stayed up a little bit later. It took me at least 15 minutes to fall asleep because I remember looking at the clock at 11:15, but I think it was more likely 20 - 30 minutes.

I think I remember waking up after a couple of hours. I think I had a dream and woke up, but decided not to write it down (I want to start a dream journal) as that would wake me up too much and risk another strange night. Maybe that was a mistake?

This morning at 5:00 when the alarm went off I felt like I could have slept for a bit longer, and I laid in bed for 5 minutes before getting up which is not ideal as it can lead to oversleeps. I was probably tired due to my shorter nap yesterday - hopefully I can make up for it at nap time today.

Sleep 2

16:19 to 18:24

(2:04 hours)

Today at work I was thinking I probably wouldn't be able to nap today as I didn't feel the usual afternoon slump. When I finally got home and laid down though, I started to feel tired but was still not sure if I would sleep. In the end I fell asleep in about 5 minutes.

After 2 hours of sleep I woke up naturally, and I'm sure I was dreaming but I couldn't remember anything about the dream. I have started to keep a dream journal, so I wrote that I had a dream but couldn't remember it which is frustrating as I have been remembering a lot of dreams lately.

When I woke up I couldn't tell if it was morning or not but I felt great afterwards. I think 2 hours is the perfect length for my nap!

Sleep 3

23:28 to 05:01

(5:32 hours)

Last night I went to bed at 11:30 which I think is generally a better time for me. I fell asleep almost instantly and slept right through to my alarm.

This morning I woke up at 5:00am and turned off the alarm. I could remember dreaming, but couldn't remember anything about the dream. I laid in bed for a while, trying to get the dream back and suddenly I had a very weak memory of something in the dream. Once I had remembered 1 detail the rest started to come back and I played the whole thing through in my head before I logged my sleep (which was only 1 minute later).

I wrote my dream down in my journal and got up. It was about living in a shared house with a load of people with learning difficulties, and having a very odd group sex education lesson with them!

Dreams:
Sex Education
dream Dream: Friday 21 December 2012 05:01

Sex Education

Tags: Bolivian Girl

I have moved house into some kind of shared housing and it is my first day there. I have been given a small room, and everyone else has learning disabilities. They have asked me to be in charge of things, and said I can have a bigger and better room if I do this, and have my own supply of food.

We all ate dinner together on the first night, and the next morning I decided to accept and be in charge.

It's morning now and we are having a cooked breakfast. I am looking for something to drink when I find a bottle of beer on the side. I open it and drink some, and it tastes like a cold can of Newcastle Brown Ale. It was fridge cold, even though it was not in the fridge.

Later we are having a group sex education lesson, which seems to have a drama element to it. We are all in a large common room with a small kitchen area, and game machines such as arcade games and table football all around the edges.

We are asked to do a series of exercises, and after each one the instructor asks some of us some questions. The first exercise was something simple, and the instructor asked one of the other house mates some questions but I wasn't really paying attention.

I remember seeing the Bolivian girl from my work (WorldPay) there, and thinking she is too normal to be there, and that she looked really pretty.

The next task is to act out a sexual fantasy that is on our mind. People are doing all sorts of crazy shit, and one guy has his erect penis poking out through his flies.

I think "this is really stupid" but I decide to play along and grab a Dyson vacuum cleaner and put it on my crotch.

After the exercise, the instructor is talking again and says that it is interesting to note that "every piece of equipment was used during the exercise." She says that 2 of us were actually sexual, and implies that I was one of them, which I think is stupid as I was just playing along. I now notice that I have an erection.

At some point during the exercise, one of the guys was just standing by the table football doing nothing, and asked me if he should get Windows Vista black edition of blue edition. I told him that I didn't care.

The dream had a strange emotion of being in a new, unfamiliar place, and reminded me of the start of university or a new job.