Get Your Sleep! Interesting study!

lydia1959

17 years ago

Thought this was really interesting!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sleep and Time change

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User
17 years ago
I must be the odd person........... I have never felt the effects of the time change and just can't understand why people do. LOL I hear a lot of whinning and complaining from friends and family about losing an hour and it dumbfounds me. To me, it's the same as waking up too early one day, or going to bed late one night and waking up too early the next day. If you change your clocks the afternoon before and put it in your head that's the time now, it's easy. Well, for *me* it is. LOL the only time that any time change bothered me was when I got back from The Netherlands. Even going there didn't bother me. I was awake for 27 hours by the time I first went to bed my first day there, and woke up at 8 in the morning and felt great. But coming home was awful! It took me five days to turn my clock back. But there is an 8 hour time difference. One hour for me, is a breeze.
User
17 years ago
I'm an insomnia queen at this time of year and any change to my sleep pattern knocks me for a loop, especially getting out of bed in the morning! Just saw this on our local news.
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Linda Wayman
17 years ago
The only time time change bothered me was when I worked midnight shift. It either added an extra hour to my work day which was long enough or took away an hour which messed with my break time. :) Other than that, I've had insomnia for eons.

Linda
OklaMoni
17 years ago
The part that bothers me, is the eating time. My stomach is pre programmed. LOL

Moni
trishaw
17 years ago
Moni - that is always my problem too! The sleeping part bothered me when I was younger, but after I hit 40 I just never seemed to notice anymore.

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wildchild
17 years ago
I've never been affected by time change. Even when crossing the date line. I've never been a good sleep solid for eight hours person in my life. It's worse now that I'm older. I rarely sleep for more than 4 hours straight. When I wake I have to pretend or "trick" my brain into thinking I'm still asleep to use the bathroom or get a drink. Otherwise I'd never get back to sleep.

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