....good morning world!

good morning world! Sleep is an incredible thing. If you are like me I'm slightly obsessed with it. I maybe haven't always been but when I think about for along time now the first question I ask myself and others is did you sleep well. I've often mentioned the restorative nature of sleep and how amazing it is. Maybe after a weekend cycling or a few restless nights - you get one good sleep and you're sorted. This last year has been a difficult one and I've spent most of time feeling tired. Not necessarily physical tired but more emotionally wrung out. Since I made my decision in December I've slowly felt myself returning to sleep related normality. I was still waking through the night and still waking early but staring to feel much better.

I've spent the weekend at my good friend Pete's sleeping on their futon. Almost the same deal as sleeping at home - a very similar futon - so I thought my sleep would be similar. It wasn't I slept like a wonderfully from about 11.30 Friday night and 10.30 Saturday night right through to 8 the following morning with only one visit to the loo through the night each night. This got me thinking that, even though you are asleep, sleep is clearly affected by environment. Not necessarily the environment you are sleeping in but definitely the environment that precedes your sleep. At Pete's no such thing - nothing other than a lovely relaxed feeling of being with good friends. (I should blog about what we did - maybe later, maybe tomorrow, maybe never - maybe sometimes what you do is not as important as how and where you did it). And the result - 8 hours or more of quality sleep.

It's early days - but this two nights seems to have reset my sleep. Last night I slept from 11.30 right through to 7.30 - that's great! Now - I'll keep you posted on this one but I used an app on my iPhone called sleep cycle to track my sleep - too complicated to go into here - but by sensing your movements it tracks when you are in light or deep sleep - interesting - and then wakes you in an appropriate light phase - follow the link above - they explain it better. Anyway we'll see how that works.......

Sleep - great!