The gift of the good snooze

One of the bizarrest of the invitations that the new phone applications offer is this sleep analysis.

Each night you bed your phone down next to you and it monitors your level of sleep. I suppose what it is really doing is measuring how much you toss and turn.

It then decides when to set off the alarm (within 30 mins of the desired waking time)...so that you don't get startled.

It sort of seems to work, though I had my doubts.

You can then review your night's sleep.

The graph alongside is one such and was particularly interesting for me, because I was beginning to doubt it's validity.

I said to K as we made our morning coffee...how did you sleep last night? She said...did you hear the incredible storm during the night...I observed that I hadn't registered any storm.

She assured me there was such about 3.45 a.m,.

I just thought I slept through. But, if you observe the sleep graph, sometime shortly after 3.30 I was obviously roused from my deeper slumbers! So it looks as though it works.

The only question is what use to make of this information other than to be reassured that I am obviously doing pretty well in the sleep stakes. Or alternatively that I lie pretty still even when I am awake. This too is true!

Closer to reality

I do apologise, dear reader, if in my enthusiasm to re-establish my blog on a regular basis that this week's entries have been unduly long and serious. Part of the art must be in trying to work out what is appreciated by you and having been away for six weeks I have to get back into the rhythm. So, hopefully, I am getting there.

This week I am slipping back into it slowly...at times this process is easy and at times it is not so easy.

• I have begun intensive reading for the course on Jungian analysis I am doing this semester, and in reality during normal times most of the reading tends to get done in one intensive  rather than evenly spread out over the 50 or so days. The great disadvantage of doing it very rapidly (and PTL I can read fairly rapidly) is what to do when your head starts to spin because the neurones are firing with joy at all the new information you are absorbing. And of course it takes a while to assimilate it. So this has disturbed my sleeping a bit.
• I have tried not to begin work before I actually go back next week. This temptation is difficult, but I have succeeded. Yesterday  I met with my friend and colleague, who has also been on extended leave, to chat but also to discuss how we were feeling about getting back into it. Both of us had been very tired before we left and we knew that things would need to be different when we returned. Will they be?

  When J asked me about this I said we would need to see what happened next week! I think this is a good thing, as I was actually quite anxious about coming back before I went away...if that makes sense. It would seem to suggest that I am a little less anxious about it. 

• This time last week we were in Kuala Lumpur  and a week before that in England. It came as something of a shock yesterday to realise how quickly it all slips away.
• I was brave enough yesterday to look at the credit card bill.  Verdict: a little bit worse than I had hoped but not as bad as it could have been! So that would seem to be as it should be!
• And this weekend  another birthday. I delight, in a way, about getting older; but also wonder where the fifty four years have gone. If you know perhaps you could tell me!

here we go

The 1st December is a sombre reminder:

• Where did the last 11 months go
• How much is there still to do before Christmas
• This last week seems to have been so busy and I have done so many things
• And yet all sorts of other stuff just hasn't got done
• The weather has been hot and cold
• everything is still parched and dry
• i had a funeral of a patriarch
• i've been on retreat in daily life
• i've slept average to badly
• today is my day off and there is a heap of stuff to do
• next week looks as though it will be more of the same.....aaah life!