Okay.
Does everyone in this country get EXACTLY the same amount of sleep every night? Me- I don't get any sort of consistent amount of sleep. Okay, so lets imagine for a moment here. Let's imagine that I'm in the minority, and that most people get anywhere between 8 and 8.1 hours of sleep a night. Enter the villain: Daylight Savings Time. (Duh, duh duuuuuuuuh.) Suddenly the whole country gets anywhere between 7 and 7.1 hours of sleep that night. Mass chaos. Suddenly the comments are heard around the world:
"I'm so mad about losing an hour of sleep!"
"I'm so tired... I haven't been able to shake this daylight savings thing."
"Wow... this week has been so hard. I never really caught up on my sleep after Daylight Savings."
Okay, okay. I don't understand. Do people out there really notice a difference when they lose an hour of sleep for one night? On average I'd say I get anywhere between 4 - 6.5 hours of sleep a night. Say on Daylight night I happen to get 4 because of the change... it's still not so different for me.
It's one hour. One. Yes- last weekend I was a little disappointed when I looked at my clock and suddenly it was 3:28 instead of the expected 2:28. That was a sad moment. However. I think that moment was about my only moment of noticing the change. Granted- I'm daaaaaaang tired at the moment but I think my 3 hrs of sleep/night for the past 2 weeks has more to do with it than Daylight. Maybe. Probably. Maybe.
The only change I notice is the darkness in the morning vs light in the evening. Oh, and my clock being an hour off for 3 months following the change. That's it, though. Am I the only one who doesn't get it? Perhaps I am. I'm willing to accept that. (Not really. But I'd sound stuck up if I didn't pretend.)
Does Daylight Savings throw your day(s) off??
