One of the most common complaints I've heard today, among coworkers, about the time change this weekend is that people are now waking up when it's still dark outside.
I don't get it. Why is waking up before the sun rises a bad thing?
We do it for months anyway, why does it matter?
It's not the lack of light that makes you more tired the mornings after time change, but is that what they're thinking?
I just don't understand.
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People need something to bitch about. Me, I bitch about the snow.
I understand needing something to bitch about, but why bitch about dark mornings and not the lost hour or feeling of less sleep? Those make more sense to me.
Hell, I remember hearing this complaint last year from people I actually respect and admire. It doesn't make sense to me.
I think the whole thing is a bother. Do we really have any GOOD reason to keep changing the clocks back and forth?
I wish they'd just choose one and stick with it. It'd be so much easier on my system.
There's no reason to bitch because it just is what it is, but I DO have an easier time getting up, and have a better mood, when it's light out.
Okay, so you're not bitching about it, but why do you have an easier time getting up and are in a in a better mood when you wake up and it's light out?
Is it some sort of mental thing?
Light=Energy, Happy, Hope?
Dark=Drain, Sad, Despair?
Is it a societal thing?
I don't understand how there can be any difference between waking up when it's still dark out versus waking up when the sky has started to brighten.
Dammit! The real question is: if daylight saving is now LONGER than supposed 'standard' time, does that not make daylight saving 'standard'? And if so, why the hell haven't we updated the calenders for THAT?! WHAT A CROCK!
They actually changed it last year, made it start two weeks earlier and end two weeks later.
And my calender told me that Sunday was the beginning of savings time.
Ticknart, it's an actual physiological thing. Light through the eyelids triggers an enzyme that helps to wake us up naturally. Having to wake up in the dark has not given our body the "natural wake-up juice" that comes with light. Maybe you sleep with a light on and don't notice it? I do. I never sleep in complete darkness.
Honestly, I don't even get the "less sleep" complaint. Unless you have to work on the Sunday morning. I don't know about most people, but I just sleep until I wake up naturally on weekends, so changing the time doesn't really change anything.
I find it bizarre this year though, since it's so early in the year. Usually when we change time, there's some hint of spring. This year we're still doing the deep cold winter thing....
Geewits -- I didn't know that. It makes sense, though. I guess nocturnal animals don't get that. Interesting.
I can't sleep with the light on, unless it's a very distant light. If I do, I don't fall into a deep sleep, only surface. (Same thing happens to me when there's music playing or some other persistent noise.) It's why I don't nap well. I guess I'm just less normal than I thought I was.
Jazz -- The "less sleep" complaint, when it comes to me at least, goes like this: I climb in bed around 10, read for a while, usually turn my light off after 10:30, and fall asleep around 11. When Daylight Savings starts, I still climb into bed around 10 and read, but because my body is still used to Standard Time, I read longer, often until 11 or later. I then turn off my light. On a good night, I'll fall asleep immediately. On a normal night, I'll lay there telling myself to go to sleep. Eventually I do, but even though I fell asleep an hour later, according to my clock, than I would have the week before, my alarm goes off at the same time every morning I go to work. And that's how I get less sleep, at least for the first three or four weeks.
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