why is it so much easier to stay up late than it is to wake up early?
In: Biology
Well, our body has an internal clock, and this clock is calibrated partially based on the light we visualize in our day to say life. As it turns out, blue light, such as that is seen from TVs, computers, and phones, is emitted. This blue light can delay the release of your body’s sleep harmone, melatonin. There are other factors, but this is a common suspect.
For many people, especially in this day and age, it is almost unavoidable to get around blue light due to our connection with lights. Once your body gets physically exhausted, and you finally got sleep, it kinda puts a marker on that part of the 24 hour cycle, prompting you to wake 7-10 hours later from that point of rest.
Now, if you normally sleep at 10pm, but you decided to binge video games or something, and you went to bed at 12am, your sleep cycle would be kinda wonky, and you may end up waking up and sleeping multiple times through the next day as your body tries to figure out how to re-pace it’s clock.
Overall, it’s easier to delay your timer than it is to speed it up.
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