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

This chart just show my sleeps for 26/01/2013.

Sat 26 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: 6:26 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

02:07 to 04:38

(2:30 hours)

I went back to bed just after 2am, and I think it took me between 10 and 20 minutes to fall back to sleep. At 4:00am I woke up from a lucid dream and to be honest I could have easily got up but I decided to go back to sleep (without writing down my dream), and after that I slept through until my alarm at 4:30am. I must have snoozed my alarm and fallen back to sleep because I finally woke up again about 10 minutes later when the alarm went off again.


Dreams:
Flying in North London
dream Dream: Saturday 26 January 2013 04:00

Flying in North London

Lucid Dream (L4)

The first part of this dream is very vague. I am outside and there are a lot of people sitting around on the floor. There are some women standing up who are prostitutes, although they are all dressed nicely and look respectable. I have paid some money and now I have to pick one of the prostitutes to take home with me.

The next thing I remember is being outside at night in North London. I feel that I am near Ai Seng's house, although it is definitely nowhere I've been in real life. For some reason we are planning on spending the night outside.

We are hanging around somewhere when all of a sudden an alarm goes off. For some reason I know that I can turn it off by going to some garages down an alleyway, so I head away from the group in that direction.

I remember feeling nervous because I was alone and it was dark and isolated down the alley.

As I'm walking along I find a metal sign post that has been pulled out of the ground, so I pick it up for protection. It looks quite heavy but when I pick it up I am immediately surprised at how light it is, and I continue down the alley easily carrying the pole.

When I get down the alley I disable the alarm somehow and start walking back towards the group. I quicken my pace and am almost skipping / jogging along with this great big sign post in my hand.

All of a sudden I think to myself "this feels like a lucid dream" and become lucid. I toss the signpost on the floor and decide to fly upwards to make sure.

As I fly upwards I become very aware of the sky. It is dark and cloudy, and as I fly up the streets below me disappear and I can only see sky in all directions.

The dream starts to fade out and I stare at a little cloud to try and remain in the dream, and although things clarify a little I feel that the clouds are too fuzzy to focus on and wake up in my bed.

Sleep 2

09:18 to 11:44

(2:26 hours)

I think this morning I made a bit of a mistake in setting my alarm so early. Splitting my sleep up into multiple chunks would probably result in needing less overall sleep if I were used to it, but as I am not it resulted in me feeling very tired.

After I got up this morning I really struggled to stay awake for the first hour or so but after that I pretty much just watched youtube videos (of TED talks) and then went for a bath. When I got out of the bath I decided it was nap time already, even though it was only 9:15 and went to bed.

I fell asleep in about 5 - 10 minutes and then I drifted off into a nice deep sleep with lots of dreams (although I only remember vague fragments now). I woke up several times, and just after I finally woke up Yu Lee came in and got in bed with me so we laid there for about another 40 minutes.

Now I feel great! Well worth it!

Sleep 3

22:31 to 04:11

(5:40 hours)

Last night I began to feel a little sleepy around 9pm, and by 10:30 I was definitely ready for sleep. I went to bed and fell asleep easily and quickly, and slept through solidly until 4:10am this morning when I woke up naturally from a dream.

It looks like my random sleep yesterday hasn't affected my sleeping pattern too much!


Dreams:
Football
dream Dream: Sunday 27 January 2013 04:11

Football

I only remember 1 fragment of this dream:

I am walking across a football pitch, similar to a school field, and my friends are there playing football. They pass the ball to me and expect me to play.

I run with the ball and easily get past everyone. I am nervous about playing but am surprised how easily I can get the ball past everyone. I kick the ball really slowly and it rolls into the goal.

I look up at my friends and they are all annoyed and then they say "Well done. Why did you just score an own goal?" I feel embarrassed but argue that I didn't ask to play in the first place!