Snookered by Daylight Savings Again
Have not coped well with daylight savings for another round. We’ve been plagued by a week of wet weather so it feels like the darker cloud-covered days have compounded the problem even further. One morning, it was so dark that the absence of luminence was nauseating.
I’ve been getting out of bed in the mornings for the last few weeks around 5:30-45am. My body is used to the darkness emerging into daylight, so erg - horrible to wake up to realising i had just lost an hour because i forgot to psychologically prepare myself for it. The cloudy mornings of late have not been helping at all.
To have extra sunshine strike at 6pm the other cloud-free day was disturbing for my body. 6pm…. and yet the sunlight was still flooding the house. It felt terrible, disturbing and distinctively wrong.
The experience is so much like a 3 bulbed ceiling light, where one or two of the light bulbs blow up and you’re left with a different level of luminence which is disturbing to the body. It takes time to adjust to the new level of light if you’re too lazy to change the bulb. With time, you obviously get used to the lower level of light.
It’s probably close to 3 years now that i haven’t been coping well with the shift of time with daylight savings. It never was a problem for me before but now it shows a trend of taking 1.5-2 weeks for my body to cope & re-adjust. Had one productive day knocked out due to waking up fatigued and needing to nap & take things easy.
I knew it was coming up, thought i would be in the position of psyching myself up for it but I “forgot”, again. Microsoft windows automatically changing the computer clocks, again. Not enough forewarning in the news about it either. It’s like i need to schedule this event into the outlook calendar so that the computer monitor prompts me with,
“DAYLIGHT SAVINGS COMING UP!!! DON’T FORGET!”
Incredibly unpleasant to wake up to a morning to realise i had lost an entire hour.
Maybe i’m getting old, maybe life has just become more sensitive to the role of sunlight affecting the sleep cycle, maybe getting up so early in the mornings is a factor, maybe the quality of light hitting the earth has changed in someway, maybe i’ve just grown far too reliant on Microsoft’s auto-change of clocks at 2-3am in the morning.
Slowly getting back on track again but rather shocked by how sensitive my body has become to it.
I guess summer will inevitably be arriving soon, I do look forward to enjoying the extra hours of sunlight again but yesterday’s weather was also disturbing. With summer-like heatwaves striking in October, wearing t-shirts and the like, to then face winter-like conditions yesterday where i had to pull out my winter coat again - far out, it’s been categorically jarring. The day before, we had a warm super-fog, visibility obscured at around 20m.
There’s less annoying kamakaze flies attacking you here when it’s cooler, so i can’t complain too much. Funny how the crazy flies seem to appear before a period of rain. It probably doesn’t happen all the time, but i’ve noticed how a pending increase in humidity tends to make them go “psycho”.
