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Spring has arrived, and it has been showing in the weather this week. Certainly no warmer in the late evening but during the day its actually been warm. Yesterday there was not a cloud in the sky. It was all blue, and doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
The clocks went forward an hour last night, good old daylight savings time British Summer Time; resulting in the loss of an hour’s sleep - for most people. I didn’t go to sleep until 5:30am this morning, though I didn’t get up until 1pm so I didn’t lose much sleep at all last night, yet I’m perfectly aware how unhealthy it is to screw up my sleep pattern like that. Tomorrow I will be getting up at 8am for work. I thought since it was already 6.45am I would be doing myself more harm than good by going to bed sleeping until late in the evening then have trouble getting to sleep tonight.
update: I slept from 8:30 to 3pm. I’m fucked tonight.
I’ve always hated going to sleep. Why would I want to stop having so much fun doing whatever it is I’m doing and spend 7-8hrs being idle. I might miss something! I don’t want to continue it [current activity] in the morning when I’ve got this far!
As much as I have tried over the years I have never managed to do it. I am never asleep before 12am, yet I have to get up every morning at 8-8:30am. Even when I do try to go to sleep I just can’t.
I can’t sleep ‘cos I can’t stop thinking. OK so obviously I gotta think, but when I’m actually trying to sleep I don’t want to be thinking so much. I’ve noticed this more over the last few months, that all this thinking leads to some great ideas, often so great I want to write down. But it’s too late and I’m too tired to get out of bed, where it’s warm, to reach for a pen and paper.
So I’ll just write it down in the morning, right? No. I never seem to remember anything I was thinking about in the morning. I have theories for both of these problems. Sensible theories. The kind of theories by parents used to go on at me about.
1. Shutting off the computer sooner before going to bed
Another term for this as used by my mother on many occasions, winding down. Instead of switching off computer and hoping straight into bed I should give myself some time to relax my brain. Maybe I should read a little or even just go to bed earlier, time to think and not end up getting to sleep so late.
2. Getting up earlier
This would be good so that I’m not rushing so much in the morning. To give myself time to collect my thoughts in the morning maybe even try and remember those thoughts of the night before. I could even get breakfast every morning and a nice mug of coffee.
I’ve been wanting to know for years the explanation for the crusty crap around the eyes when we wake up today I found the answer:
When we wake up, why do we have crust in our eyes? - S.S.
“Eye crusts†are the leftover protein and fat from tears that have dried up. Tears have three components:
- Salty water, which comes from the tear gland behind the upper outer corner of our eye.
- Protein, secreted by the conjunctiva, which is the clear film that covers the eye.
- And fat, which comes from ducts in the eyelids.
Tears do lots of jobs. They clean the eye. They fill in tiny imperfections in the surface of the cornea, which needs to be perfectly smooth for maximal vision. They also deliver nutrients to the cornea, which has to be clear to let light through to the iris, and therefore has no blood vessels to deliver a “food supply.†And of course tears flow at times of emotion, when the tear glands power up and produce more salt water.
At night, with our eyes closed and protected, we don’t display emotion, and with our eyes closed we don’t get dirt in our eyes. So we don’t make tears. Small amounts of the mixture already on the surface of the eye seep out, but without a fresh supply of liquid from the tear gland, the fat and protein dry up.
They also answered that age-old question Why is yawning contagious?
If you don’t think YAWNING is contagious, see if you YAWN by the time you’re done reading this explanation of YAWNING.
Each time the word yawn is mentioned they put it in CAPS. I yawned by 5th paragraph, and again just 3 seconds ago writing this.
I’m actually a little bored now. Screw it - I’m going to sleep.
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The changing of the clocks is called daylight savings time.
Daylight saving time (DST), or summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Details vary by location and change occasionally.
Afraid tA is right, the operative bit of that paragraph was or summer time in British English. The only people who call it DST over here are Micro$oft. Reminds me of “There’s no such thing as US English”..
You got me. I use Windows.
I heard once that the crusty sleep in the corner of your eyes when you awaken in the morning is from tiny micr bugs that POOP in your eyes while your sleeping….Is that A true statment or did I get my panties in a twist for no reason.
Thanx for all your help
ME
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