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Channel Cosmo Kramer: How To Synchronize Your Body's Clock

rd.com — "What happened to your mental alarm?" ~Jerry "I guess I hit the snooze." ~Kramer

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  • Mei2Jason, on 06/22/2009, -0/+35These pretzels are makin' me thirsty!
  • inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+30Ah, you're crazy."
    "Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?!"
    "It's impossible!"
    "Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?!"
    "It can't be."
    "Can it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?"
    "Alright, that's enough."
    "Yaaaaaaahhh!!!"
  • trapper2530, on 06/22/2009, -0/+18my friend Bob Sacamano said this works
  • Fjosnisse, on 06/22/2009, -0/+12I'm H. E. Pennypacker, a wealthy industrialist.
  • babylonian, on 06/22/2009, -0/+11FTA: "Give Yourself an Hour. The one right before bed. You need it to wind down and transition from the woman-who-can-do-everything into the woman-who-can-sleep."

    I feel somehow deceived.
  • thatonekid393, on 06/22/2009, -2/+10I wish I could just control when I sleep like Sam Fisher does.
  • trapper2530, on 06/22/2009, -1/+9THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKIN' ME THIRSTY!
  • Dinsdale77, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7Ah, look at the cute little bastard!
  • venom8599, on 06/22/2009, -0/+7These pretzels... are makin' me thirsty.
  • cambob76, on 06/22/2009, -0/+6Congratulations! You're a man trapped in a woman's body! You were only deceiving yourself.
  • TheBifman, on 06/22/2009, -1/+6Anybody have the answer to staying up late on Friday and Saturday night? This article says that sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday will screw your biological clock, but doesn't give any suggestions on what to do if you want to stay up late on the weekend.

    I mean...come on...someone needs to close the bars :)
  • tgc1, on 06/22/2009, -0/+5Newman!
  • subxero37, on 06/22/2009, -0/+4They are all parts of 100%.

    37% of people take care of children, but that doesn't mean they do not also perform household chores. The percentages overlap, here.
  • Santad, on 06/22/2009, -1/+5Side effects may include ruining your career.
  • cambob76, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3I think you're supposed to still get up at your regular time... so get used to little sleep on the weekend or party like your 70 years old.
  • GoKings, on 06/22/2009, -1/+4The fact that we all have a mental clock is crazy. I'd been going to sleep at around 2:30 every night and waking up at 11. I got a summer job where I had to wake up at 6:30. For the first three days I was fine, but on the fourth day I accidentally left my phone on silent. I woke up that morning and just thought I could go right back to bed because my alarm hadn't gone off, looked at my clock and it was 6:30.

    Our body chemistry obviously does give us a sense of time, but the fact that it can sense man-made definitions of time is insane (i.e I have to wake up at 6:30). Just one of life's many mysteries.
  • Akaricloud, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Who is keeping an eye on the factory?
  • TheBifman, on 06/22/2009, -2/+5Thethe prethelth aw mpthin mh thirthy
  • Nebarik, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3well time is not entirely man made. sunrise and sunsets are pretty steady, so 6:30 every morning your body would get used to just the right amount of sunlight before waking you up
  • bryantee, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2Haha. That was a joy to read.
  • batmanz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+2....industrialist, philanthropist, and ah...bicyclist.
  • kanojo1969, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1What you do is get up at your normal time, have breakfast, do a couple of chores or whatever, then go back to bed and get the rest of your 8 hours.
  • kanojo1969, on 06/22/2009, -1/+2Normally, I wake up automatically about 20 minutes before my alarm would have gone off. Even if I have only been in bed for an hour, I will still wake up at the same time. I've never slept late for anything, but I'm also one of these people who just isn't into sleeping late anyway. I can't just lie in bed on the weekend, it feels like I'm missing out on something.

    However, once I get up, after a couple of hours I can happily go back to bed and sleep all day.

    Anyway, for specific events, i.e. I need to wake up at 4am to catch a flight, my girlfriend showed me this many years ago, and I've never used an alarm clock since. When you go to bed the night before, I sit up, focs on a blank wall and think to myself very slowly and deliberately "I must wake up at <whenever> O'Clock." Then, I lie back, and tap the back of my head on the pillow the appropriate number of times. So for 5am, the pillow gets 5 taps.

    It has never failed. Even when drunk, or if the wakeup time is only in an hour, or any other edge case. The brain knows what time it is, everyone's brain does, you just have to trust it.
  • MAGZine, on 06/22/2009, -1/+26. Don't eat before bed, and if you do, keep it to a light snack: ie: a small fruit, a cookie or 2, etc.
  • CosmoKramer, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I can never be channeled.
  • woofers07, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1***** the getting up at my normal time thing. If I'm out till 2 or 3 am, I'm sleeping till 10 or 11.
  • Hraes, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I have an anti-tiger charm to sell you.
  • b1kerguy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1i could have told you this. ive missed work a few times dues to an irregular sleep pattern, i work 10 pm-8 am sun-thurs night, 1-5 mwf, 7-4 sat, and 10-7 sun. my sat starts off good, then about 11-12ish i get very sleepy. to help increase my sleep, i sleep 9 am till 4-5 on tues and thurs, not a good idea. listen to the article, its just what your mother always told me
  • bryantee, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
  • skit4king, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1opening my eyes everyday and looking at the clock, it's exactly 7:26am, it makes you wonder how much truth there is to this.
  • Spandia, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1*****, it's not syncing to mountain time is it?
  • Ymeg, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Your body is not syncing a clock in your timezone.
  • Opiebreath, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Oh.. thanks. :)
  • Bersy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Only quoted, and publicly humiliated.
  • ichbinladen, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Fifty years ago he'd be hanging upside down with a fork in his ass.
  • Opiebreath, on 06/22/2009, -3/+3Wait hang on...

    "60 percent of us do household chores, 37 percent take care of children, 36 percent do activities with other family members, 36 percent are on the Internet, and 21 percent do work related to their jobs."

    What?
  • Amadeus2490, on 06/22/2009, -2/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xssjIfSFcn4

    "Fine, you take the monkey's side!"
  • Archaic1, on 06/22/2009, -2/+1Wait, what exactly does this article have to do with Cosmo Kramer?
  • alwilson, on 06/22/2009, -6/+2I wanted to read the article but I'm too sleepy.
  • 2h3px, on 06/22/2009, -12/+6Kramer's favorite sleep-aid: yelling obscenities at heckling minorities.
  • Thaiindustrial, on 06/22/2009, -7/+0thanks for the info!.. cheers

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