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Last night, I was beginning to feel sleepy just before midnight, so when Yu Lee said that she was going to bed I thought I'd join her and sleep a bit early. I was in bed by 12:30, but I didn't actually end up falling asleep until after 1:15. As soon as I got in bed and got comfortable, the sleepiness started to disappear, and then I started to hear my neighbours TV, so at 1:15 I reset the timer on my sleep site (this is how I am recording my sleeps) and put in my ear plugs. I fell asleep soon after this.

I think the reason that I found it hard to sleep was that I had 3 cups of tea after my nap. I remember thinking that I probably shouldn't have done that, but I normally fall asleep really easily in the evenings so I did it anyway! I can't say 100% that the tea is what kept me up, but I have my suspicions!

Today was pretty uneventful - I felt slightly tired in the afternoon as usual and slightly more awake when I got home. When I laid in my bed I knew I would sleep though, and I drifted off into a nice deep sleep.

I had set my alarm for 2 hours, but I actually woke up naturally some time later. I think my ear plugs must have been irritating me because the first thing I did was to pull them out. Then I laid there for a few seconds until the clock caught my eye. It said "6:15". I looked at it, and thought "Oh crap I've overslept! How come my alarm didn't go off? I set it for 5:30am every day and I haven't touched it or turned it off for ages!". Then I suddenly realised that it was 6:15pm, and I was waking up from a nap and not my night sleep. In the end I had woken up 5 minutes before my alarm was due.

I definitely woke up from a dream, but in all of the confusion I forgot it. I think I have been waking up from a dream maybe 90% of the time now, which means that I am generally waking up in the right part of my sleep cycle.