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After dinner I felt a bit tired, and in the end I decided to just give up and go to bed! I fell asleep in about 10 minutes, but then I woke straight back up again (I have no idea why). After that I laid in bed until about 8:00pm before falling back to sleep.

I woke up naturally at around 11:30pm. It's funny because this used to be my bed time! I am planning on going back to sleep again some for an hour or two at some point during the morning.

Today I have a late meeting at work so I arranged to have a 2 hour lunch break and came home for a nap at lunch time. Every other day this week I have been knackered at this time but today I wasn't so tired which is strange considering how early I got up today.

It took me about 15 minutes to fall asleep and I don't feel that my sleep was particularly deep, but I think I slept for around 40 minutes before I woke up naturally. This wasn't the best nap in the world but it was nice to have a break in the middle of the day and I would definitely be up for trying it again in the future. The only bad thing is that I have to go back to work now!

Edit: This nap was useless! I was tired after work.

Last night I was a bit tired as my nap was interrupted, but I didn't plan on going to bed quite so early. Yu Lee said she was tired at 9:00pm so I went to bed with her and decided that if I didn't fall asleep in 5 minutes I would get back up. I fell asleep pretty quickly so I ended up getting a very early night!

Unsurprisingly I din't sleep through to my alarm and woke up at 2:45am. I'm not sure how this is going to affect my tiredness today but I am not going to let myself get into the habit of waking up at 3am every day!

I feel extremely well rested this morning. I've seen it written a few times that every hour slept before midnight is worth 2 after midnight, and I don't think this is 100% correct but maybe there is some truth in it!

After a short while awake I went back to sleep and once again fell asleep very quickly. This time, for the first time in the past few days, I drifted off into a nice deep sleep.

All of a sudden just after 6:00 I woke up to my phone ringing! It was a number I didn't recognise and this is the third missed call I have had from this number this week. I feel really annoyed at leaving my phone on loud as this was the first good quality nap I've had in the whole week, and also because if I'd have fallen asleep at the usual time it wouldn't even have mattered. How frustrating!

Today I felt moderately tired at work around lunch time as usual. I had a meeting at the end of the day which overran so I was a little late taking my nap, and by this time I wasn't actually feeling that tired any more. As soon as I laid down in my bed I came over sleepy and fell asleep in about 5 minutes.

At 4:45 I suddenly woke up because I was dribbling! I tried to settle back down to sleep but it wasn't coming so in the end I marked my sleep as did not sleep. I'm pretty sure I was literally only just falling asleep when I woke up so I must have been asleep for a minute or two at most.

Last night Yu Lee was tired so she went to bed a little earlier than usual and I decided to go with her. I didn't feel particularly tired but once I got into bed I realised that I would be able to easily fall asleep.

I fell asleep in less than 5 minutes and slept through solidly until about 3:30. I didn't want to get up quite that early so I went back to sleep and then woke up naturally just after 4:00am and decided to get up.

Today at work I only felt slightly tired, and when I came home I still felt a bit tired and fell asleep in about 5 minutes. My nap still felt very light and unsatisfying but I think this might be because I am not used to the noise machine yet.

I woke up just after 5:10, and I waited in bed for about half an hour for Yu Lee to come home before I got up. I may have dozed off for a few minutes in this time but if I did I wasn't asleep for long. Now I feel tired and like I could have slept longer...

I intended to go to bed at about 11:00pm last night, but in the end I got distracted and ended up settling down to sleep at 11:45. By the time I did try to go to sleep I managed to fall asleep pretty quickly.

My sleep was uneventful and I woke up at 4:30am with my alarm. I should have probably set it back to 5:00 because I went to bed later than usual and now I feel a bit tired.

This nap was not entirely satisfying!

Today at work I started to feel sleepy around midday, and by 1:00pm I was feeling very sleepy (although a pint in the pub and a massive burger probably had something to do with it!). Between 1:00 and 2:00 I felt like I could have fallen asleep in seconds if I went for my nap then, but after that I perked up a bit and by home time I wasn't feeling that tired.

When I went home I went through the usual routine and went to bed, and I did sleep but it wasn't the kind of deep refreshing sleep that I am used to. It took me a little while (maybe 10 minutes) to fall asleep, and I felt that it was a very light sleep and I drifted in and out a few times.

After I logged the end of my sleep I laid in bed for 10 minutes until Yu Lee came home, and then she came into the bedroom so we ended up laying in bed until 6:30 when I finally dragged myself out of bed and made a lovely cup of tea.

Last night I was worried that I would have problems sleeping after such a long nap, and even when I got into my bed I wasn't sure if I would sleep or not, but as soon as I settled down I drifted off pretty quickly.

When I was in bed and talking to Yu Lee I actually noticed the low frequency noise that used to keep me awake at nights. For some reason I always seem to hear it when the weather is cold. I thought it was going to bother me and that I would have to turn on my noise machine but in the end it wasn't an issue.

I woke up once in the night but I don't remember what the time was and I got back to sleep again straight away. The next thing I knew it was 4:30am and my alarm was going off.

Today I felt really sleepy at work. I have obviously gotten very used to sleeping at midday because between 12:00 and 1:00 I felt extremely drowsy.

When I got home I cam straight to bed and put in my ear plugs and turned on my new noise machine. I think it took me about 10 minutes to fall asleep, and I woke up naturally at 6:00pm. I remember looking at the clock and thinking that it felt like I'd been asleep a long time, but I must have only been asleep for 45 minutes so I went back to sleep. Ten minutes later Yu Lee came in to wake me up and I realised that I'd actually been asleep for an hour and 45 minutes!

That felt like a long nap and I really needed it. Let's hope I can sleep easily tonight...

Note: Today was the second time I used my new Dohm noise machine. I put it on yesterday for my nap but tured it off after a while, but today I had it on throughout my nap.

Last night I was feeling pretty tired by bed time and I fell asleep very quickly. I slept through solidly for the first 3.5 hours of the night at initially woke up at 2:00am.

I thought about whether or not to get up at this time and decided it was probably not a good idea! I dozed for a while and eventually got back to sleep again and woke up naturally again at 4:00am. As I've said a hundred times before, dozing like this in the middle of the night was very relaxing and comfortable and time didn't drag on at all.

After half an hour I fell asleep and then woke up 1:15 later from a dream. I should have got up then but I wanted to remember my dream so I laid there with my eyes closed and before I knew it another 35 minutes had passed.

I logged the end of my sleep when I woke up again but still laid in bed until 2:30pm.

I feel I have slept too long this time. I should have got up when I first woke up, and I really need to work on this as I have done this quite a few times now. It's a little frustrating but at least it's enjoyable!

I felt nice and drowsy around 11:30am so I decided to take my nap a little early. I fell asleep in about 5 minutes but woke up pretty much straight away, and then fell asleep again 10 minutes later but woke up when I dribbled all over my hand!

In the end I had to reset the timer after half an hour. It wasn't too bad though...

Last night I was pretty tired by the time I got to bed and I fell asleep in less than 5 minutes. The night was uneventful and slept through until my alarm at 4:30am. I feel slightly tired now but I'm sure that will disappear in the next half an hour or so.

Today for the first time in a very long time Yu Lee came with me for my nap. She said she didn't really want to sleep but just wanted a cuddle, but as is typically the case she feel straight to sleep way before I did! It's quite annoying how she is probably better at my sleeping pattern then I am...

In the end it took me a while to fall asleep even though I was quite tired, mainly because I kept having to blow my nose and coughing up horrible phlegm that I had to spit into a tissue because I couldn't swallow it. I think it took me about 15 minutes to fall asleep, and then I drifted in and out until about 1 o'clock. Once I was properly asleep I slept solidly for about an hour and woke up feeling refreshed. I laid in bed for a few minutes until Yu Lee started to stir when I gently woke her up, and we chatted in bed for about half an hour before getting up.

All in all this was an almost perfect nap! Now I'm sitting on the sofa, drinking tea and watching Yu Lee play Final Fantasy VII whilst I type this up on my tablet!

After an hour and a half of trying to fall asleep, I finally drifted off and then slept though solidly until my alarm went off at 4:50am. There's really no much to say about the rest of my sleep as it was totally uneventful!

When I woke up this morning I felt really tired, and I could definitely have done with a bit more sleep in the end, but I think I did the right thing getting up at this time as I want to be able to get back into my normal pattern today.

In future, when I have a day here I sleep a lot (I slept nearly 9 hours the day before yesterday) I will either skip my nap completely or go to bed a lot later than usual. I think I need to get some consistency back into my schedule.

This was by far the worst period of not being able to sleep since I started recording my sleeps! It took me 1.5 hours to get to sleep!

I started to feel a little sleepy around 10:00pm, but I stayed up until 10:45pm so that I would stand a better chance of getting to sleep, but when I finally did go to bed I simply couldn't sleep. It was weird though because I felt like I would be able to sleep.

I remember just before midnight I actually drifted off to sleep for a minute or 2 and then had a weird experience and woke up in a brief period of sleep paralysis. The weird thing is that I can't really remember what happened: it's as if my brain has tried really hard to forget it.

After that I got up and went to the toilet and had a drink of water, and eventually I fell asleep. I also set my alarm clock a little bit later, from 4:30am to 4:50am to make up for some of the time I had wasted laying in bed.

EDIT: I was also coughing a lot last night, so maybe this contributed towards my not being able to sleep?

When I got home today I didn't feel particularly tired and I wasn't sure if I would be able to sleep or not. I looked at the clock just before I fell asleep and it said 4:29 so I think it took me about 10 minutes to fall asleep and I slept for just under an hour.

When I woke up I remember laying there for at least a few minutes trying to decide whether to get up or not. The house was very quiet and I was surprised Yu Lee wasn't home yet.

After my nap I felt really refreshed and I don't feel any tiredness at all.

Last night I slept like a baby!

I didn't think I would be able to sleep so early after having such a long nap, but Yu Lee asked my come to bed with her to tuck her in and I ended up getting into bed and going to sleep. I think it took me about 10 minutes to fall asleep, and I enjoyed being in my bed and not having to sit up and blow my nose every few minutes!

I slept through until 3:00am when I first woke up. I looked at the clock and thought "No I'm not getting up at 3am" and went straight back to sleep. When I next looked at the clock I thought it would be about 20 minutes later or something but it was actually 4:25am and about 5 minutes before my alarm, so I switched off the alarm and got up.

This morning I feel so much better! Not only do I not feel completely bunged up, but I also I had a full night of uninterrupted sleep! The last few days I have felt very drowsy in the mornings but today I feel pretty much back to normal. I still am slightly congested, and I actually have a bit of a sore throat but I'm sure this is from sleeping with my mouth open.