{"id":10547,"date":"2015-11-01T05:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"a-snooze-button-for-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-snooze-button-for-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snooze Button for My Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snooze-Button.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10548\" src=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snooze-Button-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"snooze button\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Daylight savings time ended last night and we turned back the clocks before we went to bed.\u00a0 A good thing right? We get an extra hour of sleep!\u00a0 Or most do.<\/p>\n<p>If you depend on an alarm clock to get you up in the morning: congratulations on your extra hour of rest.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t used an alarm clock in close to two decades.\u00a0 I have an internal clock that wakes me each morning between 4:00 and 4:30. Usually.\u00a0 On some occasions, when I was feeling poorly, it lets me get some extra rest.<\/p>\n<p>It worked reliably for me this morning, my eyes popped open as my brain played reveille \u2013 time to get up!\u00a0 I checked my watch (reset to standard time): 3:00.\u00a0 \u201cNo, no, no, Brain, remember: the time changed.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t care about that: it&#8217;s time, get up\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually The Big Three Bs (Brain, Bladder &amp; Bowels) have a conspiracy.\u00a0 They work in concert to be sure I get out of bed when it&#8217;s time.\u00a0 I appeased the latter two, then told the former that I was going back to bed for one more hour.\u00a0 We argued about that for a while as I tossed, trying to find a comfortable position in which to lie.\u00a0 Brain was bringing the Shoulder brothers and Lower Back into his power play.\u00a0 Finally Brain relented, \u201cOkay \u2026 one hour.\u00a0 But you OWE me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I awoke again. Checked my watch: 4:30.\u00a0 It had taken me about a half-hour to get to sleep, so Brain was good to his word, one hour.\u00a0 Good enough; time to get up, flip on the coffee maker and get to my studies.<\/p>\n<p>But first this bit of silliness insists on being written down.\u00a0 Now \u2026 on to my studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight savings time ended last night and we turned back the clocks before we went to bed.&nbsp; A good thing right? We get an extra hour of sleep!&nbsp; Or most do. If you depend on an alarm clock to get you up in the morning: congratulations on your extra hour of rest.&nbsp; I haven&rsquo;t used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-snooze-button-for-my-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Snooze Button for My Brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20144,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions\/20144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}