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I wrote the last post just after I woke up from my core sleep this morning at 2:30. I did not feel good!

This morning was the hardest part so far by a long way. When I woke up I immediately felt terrible. I took a few attempts at writing the blog and the result was not particularly impressive if I'm honest with you. I really needed to go downstairs and be active but I was so tired all I wanted to do was go back to sleep.

After an hour or so I pretty much snapped out of it: I still felt tired but I was able to concentrate on what I was doing. I spent a while programming my sleep site and added a 'quality' value to my sleeps which colours them green if I slept well, yellow if I slept a little bit and red if I didn't sleep. This took me quite a while, and afterwards the tiredness began to set in again.

The previous days I went for a 20 minute walk at about 5:30 and it really perked me up, so yesterday I decided to go and post the electoral register in the postbox at 5:00am and then go for a walk. At first this made me feel a bit better like usual, but I realised that after half an hour of walking around it felt really monotonous and I felt extremely sleepy. I felt like I could have fell asleep standing up!

When I got back it was torture trying to stay awake, and after making my lunch to take to work I crept into bed half an hour early, and got up at 7:00 with my girlfriend.

I was quite tired at work in the morning, but the morning nap helped a lot. When it came to lunch time I walked home and fell asleep straight away for my 12:20 nap. After work I felt too awake to sleep, which is a shame because I'm a bit tired again now and I think I'll suffer for it tomorrow.

So far, I have never felt great on waking up from any of my sleeps. Sometimes when I take a little nap I feel a bit rested, but not fully rested, and when I wake up after my core nap I seriously feel like I have just come back from the dead! I'm wondering if the timings are not right or something, but I don't want to mess with my schedule too much.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better than today!