How many hours are there in the day?
Go on, it’s not a trick question.
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You said 24, yeah?
You’re right.
Kinda.
Throughout the year, the earth’s movement and rotation is effected by the pull of external forces and the day, technically, grows slightly shorter and longer.
Plus or minus about 15 minutes.
So, days (as in one full rotation of the earth) are actually between 23 hours and 45 minutes and 24 hours and 15 minutes.
And our ‘internal day’ isn’t 24 hours either.
Research suggests the average ‘body clock’ to be 24 hours and 11 minutes.
Meaning each week we end up an hour and a quarter ‘out of whack’.
Meaning, all else being, equal, going to be at the same clock time would ‘feel’ 77 minutes earlier.
When external cues are completely removed (locked in dark room with no clock) then people’s body clocks end up shifting to about 48 hours on average.
Meaning we stay awake for 32 hours then sleep for 16 when we have no idea what time it is.
So, it’s understandable why you don’t always feel like going to bed.
Even though a part of you feels you should.
We get it.
Our body isn’t quite in sync with the clock.
Unfortunately we can’t be getting up 11 minutes later every day.
So we have to make adjustments over time.
We do it to a fair degree naturally, without even knowing this.
We don’t end up 12 hours out of sync after a couple of months, do we?
But, as always, knowledge is power.
Knowing that it’s perfectly normal and natural to not feel like going to bed……..
Knowing that our body and clock are conspiring against us………..
Means we can do a few little extra things to further adjust for this.
Black out blinds, magnesium salt baths, minimising exposure to tech before bedtime and other sleep aiding tactics can all help us maintain sufficient sleep and the benefits that brings.
Much love,
Jon ”Cause if you like me lemme know. Let me in da studio. I got 21 seconds before I got to go’ Hall
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