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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...

After I woke up I laid in bed for a few minutes to remember the details of my dream and then wrote some notes. I got up and went to the toilet and then came back to bed after about 15 minutes of being awake.

Once I'd settled back down again I fell asleep in a couple of minutes and then woke up at 4:30am from my alarm.

I set my alarm earlier than usual because I went to bed quite early, and I didn't want to sleep too much. Hopefully this will improve the quality of my nap tomorrow. I think I generally need about 5.5 - 6 hours from my nighttime sleep, so I didn't want to end up sleeping more than that.

Last night I started feeling sleepy around 10:00pm, probably due to the fact that I only slept lightly for my nap. I went to bed at 10:30pm and fell asleep within a couple of minutes.

At 12:30am I woke up from a dream. I dreamt that my jumpers had gone mouldy, and that the mould had weird leaves and crystals growing on it. I tried to work out what was going on and eventually I asked myself "Am I dreaming?", but unfortunately instead of becoming lucid I woke up.

Today at work I felt slightly drowsy towards the end of work, but not as much as usual. I think this is because I am getting use to either having less total sleep or waking up earlier.

Today for my nap I tested another type of ear plug that I had bought recently, and these ones were more comfortable and definitely worked better for laying on my side as they don't stick out so much. They still weren't perfect though and I have no idea how much sound they would block out.

It took me a while to fall asleep but I'm not sure how long. To be honest I don't even remember falling asleep which probably means that I slept fairly lightly. I only know I slept because 1:24 hours is a long time to lay in bed without sleeping and I didn't feel like I was in bed for such a long time!

I am wide awake now so I definitely got enough sleep.

EDIT: Looking back on this now I think this nap was mostly light sleep as I started to feel tired very early in the evening, and ended up sleeping almost 8 hours total over the course of the day.

Last night I started feeling sleepy from about 10:00pm, but when I finally went to bed it took me longer than expected to fall asleep. It felt like I was laying in bed for about 20 minutes.

This morning I slept right through until my alarm and got up at 5:00am. When I went to log my sleep this site was broken from my last update, so I had to get up and fix it before I could log my sleep!

Today I went for a pint and an enormous chicken burger at lunch time, and then had a 1.5 hour meeting. These 2 things combined with my early morning made me feel quite tired by the time I left work. Also my meeting overran by about 10 minutes so I was a bit late leaving.

When I got home I went to bed and put in some earplugs because I have just had a different brand delivered and I wanted to test them out. I fell asleep in about 5 minutes, and then I woke up after what seemed like about 10 minutes. The ear plugs were not very comfortable so I took them out. I was thinking that only a short while had passed so I was just about to try and go back to sleep when I realised it was actually 6:30 already!

After my nap I felt a little bit groggy, but I did have an enjoyable nap. I laid in bed for about 20 minutes afterwards.