@Paul B3 you sound like a friend of mine who seems to only ever need 4-5 hours sleep. Remember we are all different & in any average there will be extreems at both ends. Modern research is showing more & more how important proper sleep is to everyones overall health & wellbeing. There was a very good programme recently on sleep & the body clock showing how much we have evolved to be synchronised with the daylight hours & how important morning blue light is in regulating our body clocks. Some people (like me) have very strong bio-rythms & so having spent the last 7 Months waking up at 7am (BST) my body still wants to wake up at that time even though the clock now says its 6am (GMT).
Thanks for the posting ; I sometimes wish I could stay in bed longer .
A colleague of mine (retired) was a postman most of his working life . He still wakes every day at around 3.00am !
Synchrony with daylight is interesting ; my father worked permanent nightshifts for many years . When he retired his 'body-clock' seemed to be permanently out of 'sync'.
Paul B3 yes night shift workers are known to have problems. You would like to think that on stopping work you could re-set but maybe after so many years it's so ingrained that they can't change.
Changing clocks or not i hate this time of year. Leave for work in the dark and return 12 hours later also in the dark. Spend the rest of the day stuck in an office. I wish i could hibernate and wake up in April!!
Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
I don't mind the winter. I get bored with the summer and vice versa. Unfortunately, I usually wake up at about 4 o'clock and in the winter I have to hang about for an extra hour before I can get up. Creeping about so as not to wake the hibernators doesn't appeal.
What bugs me is that people complain only about the clocks going back in autumn and campaign to ditch it. But it is the summer's BST that is the new fangled bit. In autumn we go back to the 'normal time' - GMT. If we stick with BST we will have basically decided that we don't like the way that time always was and want to shift it. If we should ditch anything, it's the BST addition. We don't need it any more.
Just because it's the original state of affairs, doesn't necessarily make it better. Surely you've notice that folk only complain when the clocks go back? I've never heard anyone complain in Spring: " Oh damn this clock change , we'll have have long sunny evenings to contend with" In my entire life,I've not heard one single person complain when the clocks go forward.
I really agree with Hosta. Why should GMT be normal time anyway? BST is so much better. Even that is a bit too dark in the evenings. I live in SW France and when I go to Norfolk in the winter months it is so horribly dark so early. That is one thing I prefer about France, the lighter evenings, in summer too, because of the clocks being an hour ahead.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have been getting up earlier this week and it feels lonely and quiet. I have enlisted my hot water bottle and eye mask to get me back in the rhythm. How do you pass the time Paul when others are having their eight hours?
Hey f/girl , I'm a bit long in the tooth for raving ; usually sit and read or go on computer . Dry cold mornings often sees me having a walk ; get back and do pack-up for work approx.07.45am . Even make the wife a cup of tea!
I never have a problem with the clocks changing I think it's because I use to travel so much changing time zones all the time your body gets used to it.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
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Unfortunately, I usually wake up at about 4 o'clock and in the winter I have to hang about for an extra hour before I can get up.
Creeping about so as not to wake the hibernators doesn't appeal.
I really agree with Hosta. Why should GMT be normal time anyway? BST is so much better. Even that is a bit too dark in the evenings. I live in SW France and when I go to Norfolk in the winter months it is so horribly dark so early. That is one thing I prefer about France, the lighter evenings, in summer too, because of the clocks being an hour ahead.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog