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Today I felt fine all day at work until about 2:00pm when I felt really tired. I had a meeting, and I literally felt like I could have drifted off to sleep right there: My eye lids felt really heavy and kept going out of focus and I was struggling to stay focused.

All of a sudden, at about 2:45 I suddenly got over it and felt much more awake.

I originally went to bed at 4:20pm, and reset the timer twice before falling asleep. The last time I reset the timer, I remember laying down and thinking "This is it - if I don't fall asleep in a few minutes I am giving up".

When the alarm went off I wasn't sure if I had fallen asleep or not until I realised that it was 6:30 and an hour and a half had passed. This felt like a short nap, especially considering it took me 40 minutes to fall asleep.

I was quite tired again last night but I waited until 1:00am to go to sleep. It wasn't uncomfortable, but I felt like I had a bit of sleep to catch up on.

This morning I must have drifted off to sleep for 10 minutes after the alarm, and I felt quite sleepy when I woke up but I was fine after that.

Today I would say I felt less tired in the afternoon than I did yesterday, but as 4:00 came around I started to really feel like I needed to take my nap.

When I got in from work I went straight to bed and fell asleep within minutes. I think I woke up 5 minutes before my alarm at 5:55 and looked at the clock, and decided to continue sleeping until it went off.

I felt refreshed after my nap with no grogginess.

I fell asleep again without even realising it and woke up 10 minutes later.

I was very tired last night as I missed my nap yesterday, but I still waited until just before 1:00 to go to bed.

When I got into my bed I fell asleep straight away, and this morning when I woke up I could have easily slept for another couple of hours.

I was quite tired today at work from about 12:30 - 3:30, but just as home time came around I started to wake up. When I finally got home I tried to sleep but couldn't.

:-(

Yesterday for some reason I actually felt tired all day, and in the end I went to bed at 12:20am and fell asleep pretty much straight away.

This morning I woke up from a dream when the alarm went off, and managed to jump out of bed and into the shower within 5 minutes.

We got back from Yu Lee's Mum's house at about 1:00pm, and went for our nap soon afterwards. It was a bit earlier than usual, but for some reason I felt really tired.

I had a good nap and I could remember some fragments of dreams upon awakening. I slept right through to the alarm and felt like I could have slept much longer. I felt a bit groggy afterwards.

Last night we went out for dinner with Yu Lee's Dad, and I think I probably ate a bit too much.

We went to bed around 1:15am, but I think it was probably 1:30am by the time I was actually in bed. If I was at home I would probably have reset the timer, and I would have clicked it off a little earlier this morning so the times are not as accurate as usual.

The other interesting thing about this sleep is that the clocks moved back during the night. This means that my sleep looks shorter on the graph than it actually was.

Today we went to Yu Lee's Mum's house, and I had my nap their before going out for dinner with Yu Lee's Dad. The wifi reception in the room where we slept was really poor, so it was difficult to get an accurate time.

In the end, I am sure I was still awake at 4:45 although I may have dozed for a few minutes before that point. I moved the alarm back from 6:00 to 6:20 and put in my ear plugs and fell asleep pretty soon afterwards.

When I woke up at 6:20 I felt like I could have slept for quite a while longer! It was a refreshing nap once I'd finally got to sleep.

When I came back to bed 15 minutes later I fell asleep within 10 minutes of laying down, and woke from a nice deep sleep when the alarm went off at 6:30pm.

After I woke up Yu Lee came in and jumped on the bed and tried to convince me to get up and make dinner. It took me ages to get out of bed though because it was really cold!

I got in from work a little bit earlier than usual, and came straight to bed for my nap. I laid there for a while, but really didn't feel like sleeping, so I got up for a while...

This morning I was very tired, and I'm not really sure why as I have had quite a lot of sleep this week.

My alarm went off at 5:30 like always, and somehow I managed to turn it off and go straight back to sleep. I woke up 20 minutes later from a dream. I'm not really sure how it happened, because I literally must have fallen straight to sleep after turning off the alarm.

This was quite a frustrating nap. When I got in from work I was pretty tired, so I went to bed at about 4:30 and fell asleep instantly. The problem is that the school out the back of my house was obviously having some kind of event, and everyone came out very loudly which woke me up. When I looked at the clock only 8 minutes had passed since I laid down, so I'm guessing I was only asleep for 2 or 3 minutes.

As it was noisy I decided to put my ear plugs in and reset the timer. I also changed the alarm time from 6:30 to 7:00.

When I had finally nodded off again, it must have been about 5:30 because I woke up very soon afterwards when my girlfriend came home. I didn't bother restarting the timer this time as I think I had been dozing for about 10 - 15 minutes, but again it took me a while to fall asleep, I would guess about 15 more minutes.

Eventually I did get some undisturbed sleep until Yu Lee came in at about 2 minutes to 7, asking if I was going to get up and make dinner! I didn't mind though and I felt like I had woken from a nice sleep.

Overall I laid in bed for 2.5 hours but I think I only really slept for 1.5 hours of it.

I managed to get up at the correct time for the second day in a row. I did feel quite tired though and I could have easily slept for longer.

Recently I have been setting the alarm for 7:00pm when I nap, and normally I seem to wake up naturally after 1.5 - 2 hours, but today I actually slept right through until 2 minutes before the alarm.

I got in from work and was tired, maybe because I went to the pub at lunch time for a beer and an enormous burger! I went to bed and fell straight to sleep, but about 5 minutes later Yu Lee came in which woke me up. I fell asleep again soon afterwards and slept for a total of 2.5 hours.

Even with all of this sleep I still feel quite sleepy tonight!

This morning I actually managed to get up at 5:30 - let's see if I can do it again tomorrow! I haven't stuck to the pattern for 2 consecutive days for ages now...

For the first time in ages, I actually struggled a bit for this nap. I wasn't really that tired, and it took me at least half an hour to fall asleep, but I'm pretty sure I got there in the end.

I didn't really feel like I'd been properly asleep afterwards, although I know I must have slept as it no way felt anything like laying there for 2 hours. I did feel nice and relaxed though, and I felt rested afterwards.

This morning, once again I struggled to get out of bed. I woke up straight away and at 5:35 I recorded the end of my sleep. Then I laid there for a few minutes and the next thing I knew I had dozed off and it was now 6:05.

I'm starting to get a bit frustrated that I am finding it hard to get up, and it almost feels like I am slipping back into my monophasic bad habit of snoozing the alarm. Hopefully this is something that I can stop doing, but my willpower is not always so strong at that time of the morning.