Sunday - Monday 20-21/5/2018

A completely "out of the blue" quality sleep - I'm normally up late Sunday night but by 20:30 this week, for reasons unknown, I was seriously sleepy. I proceeded to sleep, with the odd interruption, right through to the alarm. I am not consciously in control of my sleep! The right environment however definitely helps.

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