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When you go to take a nap, especially when it is dark already, I would highly recommend actually setting the alarm!

I set the time for my alarm, settled down to sleep, and then woke up 8.5 hours later. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to actually turn it on. :-(

I feel like I have been asleep for quite a while, and I have a different kind of grogginess to usual. I really need to be more careful next time!

I was in a course today, and towards the end of it I was starting feel quite sleepy. Unfortunately, when I arrived back at Yu Lee's mum's place I wasn't so tired, and when I tried to sleep I couldn't.

I slept 6 hours last night which is probably why I wasn't tired this afternoon. I still need to learn how to deal more effectively with missed naps!

Last night I went to bed 1.5 hours early as I was feeling tired and I wanted to feel alert for my course today.

This morning I actually woke up 4 minutes before my alarm went off! I think that means that 6 hours was about the right amount of time.

I do still feel slightly sleepy.

We are in London now, visiting Yu Lee's mum. I am going to stay here for a few days because I have a course on Monday and Tuesday.

When we arrived in London, we had a massive lunch and then went rollerblading in the park with Yu Lee's mum. After this we were quite tired, and we settled down for a nap and set the alarm for about 2 hours.

I think 2 hours works much better for a nap than 90 minutes. We both woke up feeling refreshed and had virtually no sleep inertia.

I don't remember what I was dreaming about, but I am sure I had a long and complicated dream just before I woke up. Waking up for the alarm clock is not very good for my dream recall though, and my memories of the dream faded straight away.

This morning I have some sleep inertia, but I don't feel too sleepy. I also have some very mild hangover feelings.

I had 1 small bottle of beer and 1 glass of wine last night, and that was quite a few hours before sleeping, so I am surprised to be feeling it this morning.

I woke up from dreaming but I don't remember the dream.

Wow that was a great nap!

It took me a little while to get to sleep, even though I was drowsy to start off with. It was nice taking my nap with Yu Lee though!

When I woke up I was at the end of quite a long dream: The dream had several components and started off in Spain and ended up back in England. I don't really remember many specifics but I'm sure it was quite complicated!

I now have a slight 'cotton wall between my ears' feeling but I feel good and it feels like I have had a whole night's sleep. Now I want to go to town for some iced tea...

Once again I tried adding half an hour onto my core sleep, and once again I feel sleepy. Maybe 4.5 hours is better after all!

I was dreaming when I woke up but I don't remember my dream.

I decided to take a 30 minute power-nap to make up for my poor sleep earlier!

I originally went to bed about 4:30, and was just on the verge of sleep when my mum rang with a problem with her computer.

After I put the phone down I settled down again and then Yu Lee came in. We relaxed for a bit and talked about her work situation, and then I reset the timer and set the start time of this nap again.

I think I slept for at least 10 minutes! It definitely didn't feel like 35 minutes, but there was no way I was sleeping any longer. Hopefully it won't make me too tired tonight.

I tried to get to bed 15 minutes early last night, but in the end it was about 1:00am like normal when I fell asleep.

I am sure I woke up from a dream.

This morning I am feeling mild sleep inertia.

I was worried I wouldn't fall asleep for this one after such a long sleep last night, but in the end I fell into a deep sleep.

WhenI woke up I set another 10 minutes on the alarm which went really quickly and didn't really seem to make any difference.

I think I probably didn't need the extra sleep last night in the end. I woke up naturally at 4:30am, and went back to sleep, and then woke up just after 5 and got up.

The good thing about waking up naturally is that there is absolutely no tiredness at all!

The fact that I first woke up naturally after 5 hours (300 minutes) suggests that I had 3 full sleep cycles, and that my cycles are about 100 minutes long. It might be worth permanently lengthening my core to 5 hours in the long run.

Today I have felt really good all day! When I was walking home from work I still felt pretty alert, but I needed to go to sleep straight away as I am meeting a friend in town at 7:30pm.

I fell asleep straight away, and woke up after 20 minutes. I then drifted in and out for a while, and eventually fell back to sleep and woke up from the alarm.

I felt no grogginess at all after my nap and I feel good now.

I'm pretty sure it took me at least 20 minutes to fall asleep for my core last night: I think I rolled over and saw the clock say 1:20. It wasn't frustrating like not falling asleep for a nap though and I felt relaxed.

Last night was a bit of a breakthrough as I felt really good and alert right up to about 15 minutes before my nap. I think this is what this pattern is supposed to feel like!

When I woke up I was dreaming again. This time I actually remember a very small fragment of the dream. All I remember is something about turning a car around in a car park.

I felt slightly groggy for about 5 minutes after waking.

Looks like I overslept a little on this one!

I felt really tired at work aout 30 minutes before my nap, but the walk home seemed to wake me up a bit. I laid in bed and read for about 10 minutes beforehand, and then I settled down to sleep. I know I reset the timer at least once before I went to sleep, but then when I turned it off at the end I still wasn't completely satisfied and went back to sleep.

About 20 minutes after that Yu Lee came in and woke me up. I'm glad I slept extra as I felt totally awake with no groggy feelings when I woke up. This was an excellent nap!

Yu Lee was baking a cake last night, and wasn't finished in time for our normal bedtime, so we went to bed 15 minutes later than usual.

This morning I woke up and felt extremely sleepy for about 5 minutes, but then I shook it off and now I do feel sleepy but it is nowhere near as intense. I was also starving when I woke up!

This wasn't a particularly successful nap, but I think I did drift off a couple of times. I reset my timer a few times, but in the end I was awake again with half an hour left to go and thought I might as well get up.

Every time I felt like I was drifting off something would wake me up, such as my neighbours in the garden. Tomorrow I think I will use ear plugs as I really need to sleep through my naps!

I had an extra half hour sleep this morning, and it made me feel very groggy for about an hour after waking. I probably won't want to be doing that again!

This wasn't really a serious attempt at a nap, as I wasn't even tired. Yu Lee ended up going for a nap today so I laid down next to her and thought I'd give it a go. I knew I wouldn't sleep though and gave up pretty quickly!

I woke up from dreaming again, and feel alert.