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With the noise playing I fell asleep again quite easily. One thing that I noticed is that while I was falling asleep, I would be thinking about things and letting my mind wander and the noise would phase out and go silent to me. I would notice this and my attention would be drawn back to the noise and I would hear it again.

This didn't stop me sleeping though - it happened about 3 times in the space of 5 minutes and then I fell back to sleep.

I woke up a couple of hours later and dozed a little bit, and then Yu Lee came in to wake me up. I chatted to her for a minute or 2 and then she left the room...

Just before 1:00pm today I felt that it was time for a nap and went to bed. The same thing happened as usual for me: I fell asleep virtually instantly and woke up after half an hour.

This time I ended the sleep and started another one, as I really thought I wouldn't be able to get to sleep. About 5 minutes after I woke up the hoover / hairdryer / circular saw noise started coming through the wall from next door, and this time I had earplugs in but I could still hear it. I decided to play some pink noise (similar to white noise but less harsh) from my tablet to try and drown it out and I think it did a reasonable job...

I woke up naturally at about 3:15am from a dream. I decided to close my eyes to remember the dream, but then I must have fallen back to sleep because the next thing I remember is waking up at 3:40 and not remembering the dream.

In the end I wrote down a sentence saying what had happened and fell back to sleep.

This time I slept through until my alarm went off, and now I feel like I could have easily slept for longer. I think I will enjoy my nap today!

EDIT: It's 10:00am and I'm tired! I can't wait for my nap!

Last night me and Yu Lee were playing Guild Wars 2, and we were doing a really difficult dungeon. We started it at about 9:00pm and were still playing at 11:30, so as soon as we finished we went straight to bed. It was a really exciting game so it took us a while to wind down afterwards.

I laid in bed for about 20 minutes before I fell asleep...

I began to feel drowsy after my lunch so I went to bed at 1:50pm to sleep and fell asleep within 5 minutes. I suddenly woke up and looked at the clock and it was 2:10 so I had only been asleep for about 15 minutes.

I found it a little bit difficult to get back to sleep after that, but I think that is mainly because I started to worry that I wouldn't be able to sleep again. I think in the end I got back to sleep in about another 10 minutes and slept through until 3:10pm. At this point I took off my sleep mask and my ear plugs and opened the door so that I could speak to Yu Lee. I then dozed off again for another 15 minutes despite the noise from Yu Lee's computer games.

I thought this was going to be a frustrating nap and I nearly got up after just 20 minutes, but in the end it was very nice and I enjoyed dozing back off again. I think a lot of my problems sleeping are largely psychological.

After I reset my sleep I did manage to fall asleep pretty quickly.

I think I initially woke up this morning between 4 and 5. I woke up from a dream, and I laid there with my eyes closed trying to remember it. Unfortunately this lead to me falling back to sleep, and the next thing I knew it was 5:00am and my alarm was going off.

I don't think I could have been asleep for long though as I could still remember the dream.

After writing in my blog post today that one of the key benefits is that I can fall asleep almost instantly, today I went to bed too early and it took me 40 minutes to fall asleep!

I think this was just a case of not understanding how tired I actually was. I did feel a little bit sleepy, but as soon as I got in bed I think I realised that I wasn't ready. I should have really got up or read in bed but for some reason I just laid there.

I think maybe I am overestimating how much sleep I need at the moment, as I might have needed a little bit more in the past month due to the manual work I was doing on my bathroom.

Today at work I had Indian food for lunch. One of my workmates buys food off of an Indian lady and he picked some up for me at the same time, so this meant I had my lunch at 2:00pm instead of 11:00am, and that it was a lot heavier than usual. I also learnt how to eat it the Indian way without a knife and fork which was cool.

I didn't really feel so drowsy at work today, and I wonder if this is because I ate my lunch a bit later than usual. In the last hour of the day the tiredness crept up on me and when I got home I was starting to feel sleepy. I went straight to bed and fell asleep in about 10 minutes.

The next thing I remember it was just before 6:00pm and I was drifting in and out of consciousness. I think I initially woke up about 5:50 and dozed for 10 minutes, and then I logged the end of my sleep but laid in bed for another 15 minutes.

This nap was lovely! I really enjoyed having my nap today and the house was lovely and quiet. I also really enjoyed being able to lay in my bed quietly for a while afterwards, and it was nice to sleep off my massive lunch! I think 1:45 is the perfect length of time for my naps.

I was quite tired last might due to my nap not being very refreshing, so I went to bed a little earlier than usual. In the end it took me about 30 minutes to fall asleep (the last time I looked at the clock it was 11:00pm).

This morning I woke up at 4:45am which was 15 minutes before my alarm. It was 4:50 by the time I dragged myself out of bed. I'm pretty sure I woke up from a dream but unfortunately I don't remember it.

This was not a good nap. I think I fell asleep in 5 - 10 minutes, but I didn't have a very good sleep. At first my next door neighbours were playing their usual game of "see how many times we can run up and down the stairs in 10 minutes", and as soon as I heard them doing that I just knew that they were going to be noisy after that which made me feel stressed and stopped me from sleeping well.

I have a feeling I woke up briefly around 5:00, and then they woke me up again at about half past (they love to turn the subwoofer up nice and loud on their tv). I did try to go back to sleep but at that moment Yu Lee came in and I just decided to get up.

This is a shame because I felt tired all afternoon at work, and if it wasn't for my neighbours I would have probably had a really good hour and a half nap, but now I will just have to deal with feeling a bit off for the rest of the day. :-(

Within 5 minutes of resetting my sleep I must have fallen asleep!

I woke up naturally not long after 4am, and rested in bed until about 4:30. Does this mean that I have caught up on all of my missing sleep?

I'm going to wait and see how I feel after today's nap before I consider my sleeping pattern back to normal.

I went to bed at 11:30 because that was my normal bed time, but I didn't feel particularly tired. I was kind of expecting to not sleep due to my long nap after work.

When I'd been laying there for just over 20 minutes I marked the sleep as "did not sleep" and started another sleep, and said to myself that if I wasn't asleep in the next 5 minutes I would get up.

Today I felt a little bit sleepy this morning, but not enough to stop me getting out of bed on time. I felt sleepy on and off all day but I think this was mainly due to my messed up sleeping pattern yesterday. At lunch time I actually came home because I had nothing better to do and I looked at my bed and thought "if only I could...".

In the afternoon I perked up a little bit, but by the time I came home I was definitely ready to sleep, and when I went for my nap I fell asleep very quickly. As is quite normal for me I woke up again after 30 minutes, but I laid there for another 5 - 10 minutes and drifted back to sleep. When my alarm went off I wasn't sure if it was morning or not!

This nap was just what I needed! Hopefully it won't affect my sleep tonight, but it felt great to sleep in my own bed and have a long, uninterrupted nap and to not need to use ear plugs.

Yesterday from about 8:00pm I felt very tired, and I was even debating being in bed by 9:00pm but then I woud have either got up at 3am or slept for 8 hours, both of which would have messed up my sleeping pattern.

Once it got past 9:00pm I started to feel a little less sleepy and in the end I went to bed at the usual time of 11:00pm and fell asleep pretty much straight away. I slept through until my alarm this morning, and I could have easily slept longer but it wasn't too difficult to get up. Hopefully today I can get back into my usual sleeping pattern.

I must admit it is nice to be sleeping in my own bed again!

I was not sure whether I would want a nap today as I finally ended up getting up at 8:00am which is a lot later than usual. I have felt kind of tired all day, and at 3:50pm I decided to take a nap as I came over sleepy. I didn't fall asleep but I did rest my eyes for a while which made me feel better. I did enjoy being able to use my own bed again though!

I'm looking forward to getting back into my normal routine tomorrow, although I'm not exactly looking forward to starting work. I'm not sure what time I'll want to sleep tonight.

I should have probably just got up at 6:30 but I felt really tired so I went back to sleep. I woke up briefly at 7:40 and went straight back to sleep. I finally woke up at 8:00 and got up.

Now I feel awake enough to be up but I kind of feel like I've had too much sleep at the same time and I feel like my head is filled with cotton wool. I could still hear the party going on at 8:00 and this was one of the most broken night's sleep I've ever had! The broken sleep is probably the reason that I had the lucid dreams though. I have no idea what this is going to do to my sleep pattern.

After writing some notes about my dream I went back to bed at 4:20. The noise was too much for me to sleep so I put my earplugs back in at 4:45 and finally got back to sleep.

This time I had another lucid dream, and this was the first ever long lucid dream that I've ever had. I woke up at the end of my dream and took some very brief notes on my tablet.

After laying in bed for over an hour I finally managed to fall back to sleep. This time I had a dream where I became lucid at the end and I woke up incredibly excited as this was my first lucid dream in years!

I got up to write some notes about my dream, and by this time next door had moved the party upstairs into the room that shares a wall with the one I was sleeping in. There was loud music and shouting, and it sounded like they were scratching the walls at one point, but to be honest I didn't really care because I'd just had a lucid dream and I was quite excited!

Last night we were still at Yu Lee's mum's house. We went to bed just after it turned midnight and listened to the fireworks going off which was surprisingly relaxing. I think they were still going off when I went to sleep but I was so tired that I feel asleep almost instantly once I had settled down.

The next thing I remember is waking up to incredibly loud music from next door. They were playing Gangnam Style at full volume which is the last thing you want to hear at that time in the morning! I felt quite annoyed at being woken and it took me a long time to get back to sleep.

Today we went shopping and came back home just after 2pm. I went straight to bed and fell asleep in about 5 minutes but woke up again at 2:45 (after 20 minutes). After that it took me about another 10 minutes to fall back to sleep and I slept through until 3:45.

When I did wake up it was really warm in the bed and really cold outside, as is normally the case in Yu Lee's mum's house! It took me about 15 minutes to drag myself out of bed.