Poll: How many need an alarm to wake up?

I like to sleep until 8 or 8:30 but I need to take one of my meds at 7:30 so I set the alarm as a reminder to take the pill more than to wake me up. But, since I have a terrible time falling to sleep, it does wake me most days.

Marilyn

Being retired for a number of years I never use a alarm. If I have an appointment there up in the middle of the morning or afternoon. I never make an early morning appointment.

jnk wrote:
Why does the WSJ care? It's all about the money . . .

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... 4sleep.pdf

Seems like a slap at capitalism. This is a little strange since one of the stated conclusions of the study is,

Firms might be able to increase profit by varying start times, providing workers with
incentives to sleep more, or with information interventions (e.g. information on how to
improve sleep quality or consistency).

Who can be against that?



Personally, I am interested in this conclusion,

Governments conducting cost-benefit analyses
of policies that change sleep time, for example daylight savings time, should consider
the productivity effects to design efficient policies.

This fall we should change the clocks back one-half hour and be done with changes forever. Makes too much sense, so government will never do it.

BTW, I rarely use an alarm clock and if I want to nap in the afternoon because I am planning on staying out late, I can never nap more than 15 to 20 minutes. Exceptions would be if I am exhausted/sleep deprived by schedule or if I have a fever.

Sheffey wrote: . . . slap at capitalism . . .

WSJ believes in capitalism? Huh. I did not know that.

I thought, though, that they had an interesting twist or two on the economic aspects of sleep on several levels based on their interpretation of the study authors' own interpretations of the data.

Me? I just think it proves that the poor sometimes have more trouble sleeping than the nonpoor..

But hey, just me.

We'll see how the investors sleep once the Fed starts unmonkeying with interest rates here in a few months, eh? Or maybe the war will help. That may be the alarm that jars a few, I reckon.

My wife requires at least two alarm clocks, not because she can't wake up, she can't figuger out how to set them, she is a.m. - p.m. challenged. If she sets both one might go off. Jim

jnk wrote: I just think it proves that the poor sometimes have more trouble sleeping than the nonpoor..


We'll see how the investors sleep once the Fed starts unmonkeying with interest rates here in a few months, eh? Or maybe the war will help. That may be the alarm that jars a few, I reckon.

No, the Fed and the wars will hurt the low income the most. They always do.

I'll ride out whatever happens. But the Fed's policy of artificially low interest rates has already caused the low income to suffer. (As "suffer" is defined in America.)

Sheffey wrote:This fall we should change the clocks back one-half hour and be done with changes forever.

That would mess my area up since we don't do the clock dance now. No Daylight Saving time here.

Sheffey wrote: . . . the wars will hurt the low income the most. They always do. . . .

Reminds me of one of Rooster's favorite songs. . . .

Rich Mans War by Steve Earle: http://youtu.be/tjT6B6IFUU8