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Last night I started to feel sleepy quite early and ended up going to bed just after 10:30pm. I think it took me about 10 minutes to fall asleep.

This morning I initially woke up at about 3:40am, but I laid in bed and dozed for about half an hour before getting up just after 4:00.

I felt a bit tired this afternoon, partly because I was in a meeting after lunch and afternoon meetings always make me feel a bit tired, but by the end of the day I had perked up a bit. When I arrived at home I didn't feel that tired but when I laid in my bed the tiredness suddenly came back and I fell asleep in about 5 minutes.

I'm not sure whether I was already awake or not when Yu Lee came in from work but I heard her come in and woke up properly. She came into the bedroom and laid down on the bed next to me and we talked about the people at her new work for about half an hour. It wasn't the longest nap ever but I felt like I slept properly and I feel good now.

Last night I probably went to bed a little bit earlier than I needed to. My intention was to read in bed for a while, but when I got in bed and Yu Lee cuddled up to me I really couldn't be bothered so I just went to sleep instead.

I don't think it took me too long to get to sleep, but probably more than 10 minutes.

This morning I woke up naturally at 4:20. I'd probably been awake for at least 5 minutes when I registered the end of my sleep, and then I got up just after 4:30. I enjoy waking up without an alarm.

I felt drowsy at work today at about 2:00pm, but by the end of work I'd gotten over it. When I took my nap it took me 10 - 15 minutes to fall asleep, and then I woke up at about 5:25, so I was probably asleep for just under an hour.

I was considering going back to sleep, but while I was laying there I heard Yu Lee arriving so I said hello and she came in and I got up soon after.

Last night when I went to bed I was intending to read in bed for a while. I wasn't particularly tired as I'd had such a lot of sleep in the afternoon.

In the end, once I was in bed I couldn't really be bothered to read! I probably laid in bed for about 10 - 15 minutes before I slept, but I never felt like I was 'trying' to sleep: it was relaxing and enjoyable.

This morning I woke up with the alarm. I'm pretty sure I'd just finished a dream, but I would have needed to lay there with my eyes closed to stand any chance of remembering it and I'm pretty sure that would have made me fall back to sleep.

Instead of just getting up I laid there for a while and I fell asleep again a couple of times, drifting in and out of a light sleep.

Overall I probably slept more than I should have, and I might have problems sleeping tonight. I may have to start setting an alarm for my naps to make sure they don't go beyond 2 hours, but for now I have been enjoying these naps. It's very similar to having a lay in on a weekend, just I am still sleeping less than 7.5 hours a day so it is not wasting so much time!

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!