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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.

This nap was a bit of a mess really!

When I first went for my nap I fell asleep very quickly, in about 2 or 3 minutes, but then I woke up very quickly and looked at the time and only about 20 minutes had passed, so I went straight back to sleep. The next time I woke up was 1:15pm and I had slept for a total of 1:35 hours, and I logged my sleep and intended to get up.

Then I'm not sure what happened after that! All I know is that I was still in bed just after 2:00pm, so I adjusted the sleep to end just before 2:00. I didn't sleep for the whole extra time but I was asleep for most of it.

I think I must have actually been really tired to sleep that much without meaning to, and now I have that feeling like I've had a bit too much sleep. On the plus side most of my cold symptoms have really cleared up whilst I've been asleep so I'm sure I will be fine tomorrow.

After my initial 32 minutes in bed which I marked as did not sleep, I finally drifted off, only to sneeze myself awake at 1:30am. In my half asleep state I remember trying frantically to find a tissue to clean up after my nose explosion!

That wasn't the only time I woke up: I think I woke up on at least 2 more times for similar reasons but it wasn't like the horrible broken sleep I'd had the previous night. I still feel like my sleep quality was not as good as usual though, and I think I will need to take my nap early again today to make up for poor sleep quality.

This morning I actually feel a bit better than yesterday, but I am still producing a lot of mucus and now I am sneezing a lot too. I also still have the horrible hot feeling on my eyes and a mild headache from being bunged up, and it is still pretty unpleasant to be staring at the computer screen. Hopefully I am past the worse now.

I am always writing things on here like "It took me a while to fall asleep, but it was not frustrating and was nice and relaxing", but today I am going to say the opposite! Last night I think I maybe overestimated how tired I was and went to bed when I was not really ready to sleep, and it was boring and frustrating. I kept having to sit upright to blow my nose and cough and it was not nice at all!

Before I went to bed, at about 9:00pm, all of a sudden some really loud music started playing through the wall from my neighbour's house. As it got closer to bed time I started to think that I would have to go round there and ask them to turn it down, but dead on 10:30pm they turned it right down. I could still faintly hear it but it wasn't enough to bother me. I have to admit I felt really relieved!

I initially went to bed at 11:30am, and as soon as I laid down I realised how disgusting I felt! My whole head felt congested and hot, and I could feel the breath coming out of my nostrils and it felt extremely hot and uncomfortable. I put in my ear plugs just in case next door decided to make a racket and wake me up, and I put on my eye mask, but after about a minute I realised that the eye mask was just making my eyes feel extremely hot and took it off again.

I decided, as my eyes felt hot, to lay with my eye pillow on for a while as it has a lovely cooling effect, and it did make me feel a lot better. After about 15 minutes of that I took off the eye pillow, logged the start of my sleep and settled down for my nap.

I think it took me about 5 minutes to fall asleep and I woke up at 1:30pm. I looked at the clock and was pleased with the amount of sleep I'd had, but decided to have a little go on the eye pillow again because my eyes were hot again.

I don't remember falling asleep, but I do remember dreaming (although not what the dream was about) and all of a sudden being aware of my eye pillow. I thought "this can't be real - I've nodded off with my eye pillow on" which caused me to wake up.

Now I have a mild headache and feel quite nasty, but it was a good sleep and well worth it! Especially considering the poor quality of my sleep last night.

Last night I went out on a language exchange with my friend from Tenerife. I was out from 7:00pm until 10:30pm and I had some very spicy vegetarian food and a couple of beers. When I arrived back at home I was quite tired, but it took me about half an hour to settle down and get into bed.

I don't remember how long it took me to get to sleep last night but I don't think it was too long, and I don't think it was instant. The theme of last night was waking up in the night!

I woke up at 1:00am and thought it was morning, but then I looked at the clock and realised that I'd only been asleep 2 hours. Then I woke up at 2:00am, 3:00am, 3:30am and 4:00am. At 4:00am I laid there for about 10 minutes but still didn't fall back to sleep so I decided to get up.

This morning I feel bunged up! My nose is totally full of gunk and I can tell that I've been sleeping with my mouth open because it tastes like something has crawled inside it and died. I also have a headache, probably from my sinuses being blocked. I'm getting bored of this now!

Eventually after 20 minutes I managed to fall asleep and then I woke up after exactly 1 hour. I logged my sleep, and just like yesterday couldn't be bothered to get up for a while. The next thing I knew I had slept for another 30 minutes.

I have to say the wax earplugs were pretty good! They were a bit of an effort to get in properly, but once they were in they made a good seal against the inside of my ears and they had very little material poking out so were comfortable for sleeping on my side. The main downside is that they are expensive compared to foam ear plugs.

This was the first time I've woken up in ages without a horribly sore throat! This time my nose was full of nasty thick mucus, but I think that's a step in the right direction!

All morning I felt very tired. When I was in the bath I closed my eyes a few times and instantly my thoughts would start wandering and I would have intense day-dreams so my body was definitely ready for sleep.

Just after midday I decided to go for my nap and by this time next door were playing music, so I decided to try out my new wax ear plugs. I laid in bed for at least 20 minutes before I could get any sleep.

The problem was that every time I would start to nod off I would cough and this would wake me up.

After an hour awake I decided to try to go back to sleep, even though I didn't feel particularly tired. By this time I had a bit of a headache too.

I laid in bed for at least 20 minutes before I started to drift off, and then I drifted in and out of consciousness for about an hour. By 4:00 I was fast asleep and when my alarm went off at 4:30 I decided to go back to sleep, so I reset my alarm for 5:00.

Now it's 5:00 and I could definitely have slept a little more, but I didn't want to mess up my sleep pattern. I feel more tired now that I did before I went back to sleep! I also still have a bit of a headache.

The interesting thing is that the period of time I spent in bed but not sleeping didn't feel bad at all. Normally if it took me such a long time to go to sleep I would be bored but it wasn't like that, and it actually felt pretty good.

Last night I was quite tired by bed time and fell asleep in about 5 minutes.

This morning I woke up at 1:30am, after just 3 hours! This definitely isn't a full night's sleep, so I intend to go back to bed in a couple of hours. I'm not 100% sure why I woke up but I felt very hot when I woke up.

This morning I felt like I could have taken my nap at pretty much any time, but I didn't feel overwhelmingly tired. Just after midday I laid down in my bed with my earplugs in and a sleep mask on and drifted off to sleep in about 5 minutes.

I woke up after just over an hour (at 1:15pm) and logged the end of my sleep. I took off my sleep mask and ear plugs and laid in bed for a few minutes before I got up.

The next thing I knew I woke up again and this time it was 2:30pm. I had fallen back to sleep without realising it and slept for pretty much the same amount of time again.

As I lay there thinking about whether to get up or not I remembered that I'd had a dream about napping! In my dream I woke up and couldn't figure out whether I'd been napping or sleeping for the night, and to make matters worse my watch had the wrong time on it!

I feel like I've been asleep for ages (maybe too long!). My throat is really sore now.

In the end after 20 minutes (which I marked did not sleep) I fell asleep. I had set my alarm to 4:30am, but I ended up waking up just after 3:00am! This is probably too early to get up but I think it would have taken me a long time to get back to sleep even if I had tried.

I'm feeling pretty grotty now, and I'm not sure whether to go in to work today or not. I think I probably woke up earlier than usual due to my sore throat.

Last night we initially went to bed just after 10:30pm, but we laid in bed talking for a while before I started the timer.

My cold symptoms are much worse when I'm laying down as I keep coughing and end up with some horrible thick mucus that is hard to swallow! I was beginning to think that I would be laying awake for a long time so I decided to record the time that I was laying awake separately, but in the end I was only laying there for 20 minutes.

I was tired today! After messing up my naps yesterday and still getting up early today, by the time midday came around I was more than ready to nap.

I went to bed at around 12:20 and fell asleep within a few minutes. I woke up at 1:30am but I couldn't be bothered to get up yet so I laid in bed for a while until I fell back to sleep, and then finally woke up at 2:15. I laid in bed after recording this sleep for another 15 minutes (without sleeping any more) and got out of bed at 2:30.

I feel like I have slept a long time! Maybe I shouldn't have gone back to sleep once I woke up. Hopefully my pattern is back in full swing again now!

Yesterday my sleeping pattern was a bit of a mess! I had a nap early in the day because I didn't feel too well, and then I tried to nap at my normal time and failed. I felt sleepy at about 7:30pm and felt that I could have napped then, and also at about 9:00. In the end I held off of going to bed until 10:30.

By the time I went to bed I was knackered and fell asleep very quickly. I set my alarm for 4:30am as I didn't want to sleep too much so that I could nap properly the next day.

When my alarm went off this morning I struggled to turn it off, and somehow managed to turn it from vibrate to sound in the confusion, which meant it started beeping. I had woken from a dream about helping people at work, and in the confusion of turning off the alarm I forgot a lot of my dream.

After I'd given up on the idea of sleeping I think I actually dozed off for a few minutes with the light on!

I laid down and shut my eyes for half an hour while Yu Lee was in the bath. I didn't sleep though, and when she got out I turned the light on.

Last night I started to get some cold symptoms, and this morning my symptoms were stronger although still mild.

At around 8:00am I started to feel drowsy and a little bit ill, so around 9:00 I went to bed with a cup of rooibos and a book. After a short while I felt sleepy enough to take a nap so I laid down and drifted off.

I fell asleep almost instantly but coughed myself awake after just 10 minutes. I remember that my thoughts were drifting off in all kinds of directions and felt very dreamy. After I woke up I think it took me 5 minutes to fall back to sleep, but then I awoke after about another 25 minutes.

Now I feel much less drowsy! That was a very short nap but much nicer than yesterday's nap. I'm not sure whether or not I will nap again today.

Last night I was feeling sleepy so I went to bed at 10:30. I decided to set my alarm for 4:00am as I don't want to sleep more than 5.5 hours as it makes it difficult to nap the next day.

I fell asleep in about 10 - 15 minutes and actually woke up around 3:30am without my alarm. I laid in bed for a while but in the end decided to get up rather than falling asleep again just before my alarm goes off.

This nap was pretty lame! I'm sure I glanced at the clock and it was about 4:40pm before I actually fell asleep, so I really only had about 20 minutes of sleep.

Maybe I have been sleeping too long at night? I'd much prefer to sleep longer for my nap and less at night. It could just be a result of going to bed at the same time as Yu Lee...