I find myself getting woken up earlier
and earlier every morning. But I've decided I'm not gonna complain
about it.
I usually sleep pretty soundly in the
morning. In fact, it's when it seems I get my best REM sleep, which
may account for why I have trouble functioning during the first part
of the day. I'm still trying to rouse my body from a very deep level
of unconsciousness. But I notice that I seem to be sleeping less
soundly in the morning recently, and it's not because of people or
sounds or the rumbling of street sweepers.
Nope. The sun is waking me up.
It's not a jolting wakeup like you get
from 3am phone call or a 7am alarm going off. Nope, it's a gentle
wakeup call. It's a wake-up call where your mind gradually becomes
aware that there’s something out there, and it keeps nudging you
closer and closer to consciousness to find out what that something
is, until you eventually wake up, and realize that for the first time
in so long you can’t remember you’ve been welcomed into your day
by sun bouncing off of nearby houses, sun that for the past few
months hasn't even risen when you wake up.
And since it would be anathema to
everything for which I stand to complain about the sun, I'm not
gonna!
I usually don't get back to sleep after
the sun wakes me up, and for some strange reason my body and my mind
don't seem to care. I don’t know if it was because my body's just
naturally adapting to the circadian rhythms of the sun or if was the
way in which my alarm clock for the day was so gentle in doing its
job, but I seem to bound into my days in a very strange way, at least
for me—not dead. In fact, on a couple of days, I've actually had
energy and a willingness to face whatever's coming my day. There's
no lethargic wandering around, trying not to bump into things. There
was no sitting on the couch, staring at the wall for two hours while
trying to summon enough energy to actually get off the couch.
Nope...the sun, while waking me up early, also apparently provided me
with the unique manner in which everyone should start the day.
Too bad it only works that way for a
few months each year, right?
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