DST Fail

[the_other_sandy]

Is anyone else getting their butt kicked by daylight savings time? I'm usually a little fuzzy the first two mornings after the time change, but then I adjust and it's all good. Not this year. Every time I try to go to bed, my body says 'but it's early.' And you'd think that only getting 5 hours of sleep a night would make it easier to fall asleep the next night, but really not so much. It's been a week and a half. I'm tired of being tired. Do you think anyone would notice if I just changed my clocks back again?

Comments

[aeroferret.livejournal.com]

This is my worst year ever trying to adjust to DST---walking around totally exhausted and taking 4 hour "naps" on my days off.

Forced myself to stay awake all day long(and I do mean forced, it was painful staying awake)from 5 AM' till about midnight, and then finally able to sleep the whole night through.That happened 2 days ago and I think I "fixed" the problem.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Friends I've talked to in RL have been having the same problem. I just can't figure out what's so different about this year.

Sadly, sleeping through the night had the opposite effect on me--I wound up not sleeping at all the next night.

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this year seems to be particularly bad for me, too. I've been trying to convince myself to go to bed earlier, but I end up getting there later instead. I'll look at the clock around 10pm, think that I have a little while to wrap up what I'm doing, but the next thing I know it's 11:30 or midnight.

I'm all in favor of changing everyone's clocks back now. I hate daylight savings time, particularly now that it starts earlier and runs later. Getting up before sunrise is awful, and now DST kicks in right about the time that the sun was up before me. "You thought you'd have light in the morning now. Ha! We're giving you a couple more weeks of darkness instead!"

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

[snicker] Apparently, we aren't the only ones having trouble with DST (http://archiveofourown.org/works/173912).

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Well, it is an illogical way to run things.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I don't mind waking up in the dark as I'm not much of a morning person. I do mind repeating the 2 week period where the rising sun is exactly in the corner of my right eye for a segment of my morning commute.

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

For me, not being a morning person makes it harder to wake up in the dark. My subconscious is convinced that if it's dark outside the world doesn't actually exist yet, so there is no point in getting out of bed.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

My body doesn't think there's any point to getting out of bed in the morning just on general principles. The snooze button is both the best and the worst thing ever for me in the morning.

[samazon13.livejournal.com]

I'm having difficulty as well. I seem to take longer to adjust each year.

Can we please just not have it anymore? Now that we have electric light, it's really, REALLY not necessary!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

It's especially awkward with the states that don't observe it, so 2 different places in the same time zone will not have their clocks synched up.