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Internal Time Clock

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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
Does anyone think they have the ability to fall asleep and wake up at an exact time with no alarm clock whatsoever? I really think i've done it more than once. It's almost an everyday ocurrence when i wake up for school or work. It's been brought up before in pop-culture in shows such as seinfeld where kramer says he has the ability. It's weird that your body knows not necessarily time in terms of a clock but knowing you've slept for a certain amount of hours and minutes and its time to wake up.
Jul 11 2007 2:49PM
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iluvBread
Posts: 1519 - Karma: 38
always happens to me i wake up exactly 1 minute before my alarm clock each morning..it's weird
Jul 11 2007 2:50PM
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prosnurfer
Posts: 1842 - Karma: 83
yea i always wake up liek 5 min befor my alrm goes off that way i can shut it off and wont have to hear it. i fuckign hate it
Jul 11 2007 2:54PM
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JFerg
Posts: 2440 - Karma: 62
I didn't think this was ever up for debate and was just common knowledge. Of course your body has that ability. Your brain can perform millions of complicated tasks in the course of a day, and you wonder if it has any sense of time?
Jul 11 2007 2:55PM
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TheButterHashira
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i do that during the school year. alot of times about 10 minuites before my mom comes and tells me to get up i have already woken up
Jul 11 2007 2:58PM
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Mezmerize19
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yeah i aways wake up around 20 minutes earlyier then i need to for school then im like get the fuck back to sleep i still have 20 minutes
Jul 11 2007 2:58PM
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maclem
Posts: 2497 - Karma: 17
Haha, no never. Now I feel weird.
Jul 11 2007 3:02PM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
can anyone tell their mind when to wake up. i usually wake up at 6:30 for school so i can understand that i can wake up at that time easily. but on like a saturday i might have to go to work so i'll think of what time i have to wake up and i won't even set an alarm. i'll just wake up at that time
Jul 11 2007 3:03PM
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chickenwang
Posts: 5639 - Karma: 40
yea i rarely use an alarm clock unless its befor 7 cuz i think ive slept past 7 once in the last 2 years
Jul 11 2007 3:08PM
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skodeo7
Posts: 14949 - Karma: 9,234
My internal clock is stuck waking up at 7:30 am right now. I can't fucking figure out why. I hate it.

I think it might be because they were doing construction at my apartment in Boston and they start just before 8 am every morning (fucking dicks). I am in VT now but I'm stuck on it.
Jul 11 2007 3:09PM
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EH_DUBS
Posts: 3080 - Karma: 969
i stopped setting my alarm clock for school this year cause i got so good at that...just dosent work when your super tired
Jul 11 2007 3:10PM
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doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 27
i can go to bed pretty much whenever and wake up at 730. i hate but im never late for work anymore.
Jul 11 2007 3:40PM
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PilleDaKid
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If i have something important or exciting i can wake up early but if not i just wake up late and im not tired at all.
Jul 11 2007 3:46PM
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CooksCorner
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My AP psychology teacher in high school said that he hadn't used an alarm clock in years. He simply thinks about the time he wants to get up, and he does.

Drinking/lack of sleep can throw off your natural perception of time so if you're wasted or extremely tired the "wake up naturally" method isnt so effective.
Jul 11 2007 5:18PM
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Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21
yeah i can do that specially if im going skiing. i can think that i want to wake up around 6:30 or whatever and then sure enough i wake up right around that time usually a little later by like 5 or 10 minutes
Jul 11 2007 5:21PM
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slimbruddah
Posts: 2611 - Karma: 25
today i woke up at 650am and my alarm was for 7... it happens. My dad can do it like mass.
Jul 11 2007 7:03PM
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KatieMcCork
Posts: 255 - Karma: 10
For sure true. It probably has something to do with our Circadian rythyms. Historically, our internal clocks have woken us up with the sun, as was best suited to the time. Maybe with evolution, Circadian rythyms are becoming more fine-tuned... That would be wicked!
Jul 11 2007 7:42PM
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Elijah.
Posts: 9322 - Karma: 76
Smart people don't belong here.
Jul 11 2007 10:13PM
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keystoner1
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ive had it happen a lot
Jul 11 2007 10:15PM
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jadHafeedChris
Posts: 191 - Karma: 10
i hate that cus then i get up and do soemthing and the clock goes off and i get pissed
Jul 11 2007 10:18PM
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scientist
Posts: 6920 - Karma: 348
Lately I have been waking up at roughly 7;30 every morning, for no reason. I have nothing to wake up- for, yet my body continuously is woken up at that time. At least I am getting more out of my day then I used to.
Jul 11 2007 10:25PM
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