Do I sail too long already?

Is my brain seriously influenced by being at sea for such long time?

There were two events last night which made me thinking above questions.

First – just before my first watch duty, I woke up 10 min earlier because I dreamed that my alarm rang. When I was up, I recognized that I dreamed the alarm and thus got up.

Second – I woke up for my second watch duty being terribly tired. However, I got up because it’s my watch duty. I had my normal take over conversation with Shigeo and registered all boat related information. I made my log book entry at 0415.

Quite a while later, after after talking with my OBM over the sat-phone, and while writing an email, my mobile phone played the “get up melody” and wondered why this melody is played again. When I looked at the phone I saw “0355” and “watch duty”. I was baffled.

Why is my phone ringing the alarm of an hour earlier again?

Then slowly a thought crept into my mind. I only dreamed the first alarm exactly 1 h before the alarm was supposed to wake me up. I made my log book entry at 0415 because the pointer of my wrist watch showed a quarter past an hour.

When now, at real 0700 Shigeo told me that at he asked me to go back to the sofa and sleep one hour more. I did get the boat information but I didn’t get the information that I’m one hour to early.

I leave the answers to above questions open…