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We went to bed relatively early last night, and I didn't fell particularly tired. I think I dozed for a while, and fell asleep properly after midnight.

I woke up from a dream at 2:00am, and then got up to go to the toilet. I felt a little uneasy as I'd just been dreaming about zombies and the house seemed very dark and quiet.

When I went back to the bedroom I took a few notes on my zombie dream.

I went back to sleep and slept through to another dream at 5:00am. I laid in bed for a while, and Yu Lee cuddled up to me so I laid there longer than usual. Then I started to fall asleep again so decided to get up before I fell asleep properly.

This morning we re-felted the shed roof, and after that sat outside and had lunch. The weather was lovely and it is forecast to be crappy all of next week, so I decided to sit outside and have a few beers while Yu Lee practised with her hula-hoop.

I came back inside at about 4:00pm and fell asleep on the sofa, and woke up less than 1.5 hours later. This was a nice little nap on a lovely Sunday afternoon.

Well, it looks like what I was worried would happen is happening. I'm not using the alarm, and it's lovely to wake up naturally, but my waking time is definitely slipping back. If it carries on like this I will have to go back to the alarm, otherwise my sleeping pattern will shift completely.

I went to bed around midnight last night and fell asleep quickly. I don't remember waking in the night at all, and woke naturally from a dream this morning at around 7:00am.

I feel like I've slept too long and my head feels kind of fuzzy. When I woke up I had Rhayader by Camel stuck in my head.

I went for my sleep in the back room, after lunch, and I fell asleep in about 5 minutes. I woke up at about 2:00pm to some noises coming from outside (it sounded like an electric saw), but then I went back to sleep and woke up naturally from a dream after a total of 1.5 hours.

I felt a little bit grouchy yesterday afternoon, which normally means I'm tired, but after dinner I perked up a bit and was fine.

I went to bed around 11:30pm, and I'm not sure how long it took me to fall asleep. I definitely looked at the clock at 12:30am, but I remember thinking that it didn't feel like I'd been there that long so I must have been asleep already.

This morning I woke up and looked at the clock at 4:50am, but then I went back to sleep for another hour. I woke from a dream just before 6:00am, and now I feel like I've had a little too much sleep.

This time I fell asleep in about 10 minutes, and there was no annoying delivery guy to wake me up and rob me of my nap!

I had a nice nap on my sofa and woke up after about 1.5 hours.

...and as usual that's completely killed any chance of going to sleep for a while.

I was just drifting off to sleep when the door bell rang with a parcel for Yu Lee...

Last night I went to the beer festival with Carlos (from WorldPay). We got there at 7:00pm and left around 10:00pm. We had a good chat, I got a chance to practice my Spanish, and it was really good to see him.

I got back home and chatted with Yu Lee and drank plenty of Red Bush and water and went to bed.

I woke up several times in the night, and one time I could remember a dream but I had already woken up a couple of times and couldn't be bothered to write it down. It was Yu Lee talking in her sleep that woke me up. She sounded a bit distressed and started with "Oh no, look at ???", but then went on to talk about mangos so it can't have been that bad!

I think I'd woken up twice by 2:30am when I got up to use the bathroom, then woke up to Yu Lee's weird sleep talking, then woke up again around 4:10am, and finally woke up at 5:40am and got up.

After sleeping in late this morning, I wasn't really thinking that I would have a nap today, but around 1:00pm I felt sleepy and had a nice nap on the sofa.

Last night I fell asleep quickly, and woke up from a dream at 1:50am. I got up to go to the bathroom and get a glass of water, and then went back to sleep.

I woke up from another dream at about 3:30am. I felt really awake, like I could have easily gotten up, but it was obviously a bit too early so I went back to sleep again.

The next time I woke up (from yet another dream) was 6:30am.

It seems like I woke up after 1, 2 and 4 sleep cycles, when I wanted to wake up after 3! My wake up time has slipped each day that I haven't used an alarm so far, but I'm going to try to stick at this for a little while longer.

I don't remember any of my dreams.

Edit: When I woke up this morning I actually felt like I'd had a bit too much sleep, but 20 minutes and 1 cup of tea later I actually feel really good!

Today I went to one of my old workmates' retirement lunches, with a load of people from my old work.

I got there first and sat in the beer garden with a pint and read my book. Then loads of people turned up and we had dinner, and in the end I had 3 pints of beer in total.

It was really good fun, especially because it was quite sunny and I hadn't seen them for a while!

When I got back I laid on the sofa in the back room and fell asleep, and woke up feeling pretty good but a little thirsty. I had a vague recollection of a dream, but not enough to describe it.

Last night it took me about half an hour to properly fall asleep. I remember looking at the clock and it being around midnight, but to be honest I was half asleep already and messing about with my sleep timer would have woken me up.

I woke up at 4:05am this morning and decided to go back to sleep. I woke up again at 5:25am from a dream, but I don't really remember it. I dozed for 10 minutes and then got up.

Yesterday evening me and Yu Lee were talking about the beer festival which is this week, and we decided that we'd like to go at lunch time one day. We looked at the weather and today was the only day with good weather forecast, so Yu Lee decided to try and book the afternoon off work so that we could go.

I met Yu Lee there at 12:30pm and we stayed there until the lunchtime session closed at 3:00pm. We had hog roast for lunch, and I had 5 half-pints of different beers.

When I got home I went straight to bed on the sofa in the back room. I woke up from a dream (which I don't remember) after nearly 2 hours, and my arm was a bit stiff from laying on it.

That was a lovely nap after a lovely afternoon!

Last night I felt pretty tired by bedtime and fell asleep quickly. I slept through the night and woke up naturally to a dream at 5:15am. I laid in bed and dozed for 10 minutes before getting up.

Today was once again stunning outside, so after my morning's work I sat outside and had a toasted Ciabatta, with salad and the leftover lamb from the barbecue at the weekend, which I cut into small pieces and fried with an onion. It was like a really tasty kebab!

I had a couple of small beers in the sun and read some of my Spanish book ("El Alquimista") and had to sit under the parasol because it was so sunny. I also broke one of my chairs trying to get the parasol cover off which annoyed me a bit as they are brand new and obviously not very good quality.

When I came in I took a nap in my clothes on the sofa in the back room. I fell asleep quickly and woke up naturally from a dream after an hour and a quarter. I set an alarm for 2:45pm as I have a piano lesson at 3:15pm but I didn't need it.

Last night I didn't set an alarm as I want to stop relying on the alarm to wake me up! I've written a full blog post about this which you can read by clicking "My Sleep Blog" from the menu at the top of the page, or by clicking this link: http://www.fig14.com/blog/?p=838. (Hint: click this sleep on the sleep chart to view this comment in a new window and then click the link!)

I woke up naturally at 5:15am, but then I let myself go back to sleep for a few minutes and woke up less that 10 minutes later and got up. I think I dreamt in the night but I don't remember the dream now.

Bob and Steph were round today, so I waited for everyone to get up and made some cooked breakfast. After that we chatted for a while, then went outside and I did a bit of gardening while they played a couple of games.

After that we chatted and I had a couple of beers and then they left to go home.

I was a little bit drowsy so I laid on a picnic blanket in the shade for 20 minutes but I didn't sleep. After that I came in doors and fell asleep on the sofa for an hour.

Yesterday Bob and Steph spent the day with us and we played lots of games and barbecued lots of meat. We went to bed just after midnight.

I set my alarm an hour later to 6:00am and fell asleep quickly. This morning I woke up at 5:15am, but then I went back to sleep until my alarm went off. I feel like I could have slept longer.

Bob and Steph are visiting today, so I had a cunning plan of how to deal with my sleeping pattern. I got up at the usual time; had breakfast; drunk some rooibos; wrote up my sleep and dream; did 10 whole minutes of freelancing work and then went back to bed!

I fell asleep quickly and slept for 3 hours, waking from a dream and feeling very hot. I wrote some notes about my dream, then got back into bed and woke up Yu Lee. Next was breakfast number 2, and that leaves me with 1 hour to clean the house!

I feel slightly worse than normal for sleeping so long, but not as bad as I do without getting up in between.