I noticed something interesting while on a business trip. Here, my alarm is set for seven in the morning every day (though tomorrow it will be at five, actually). Quite often, around five minutes before or so, I wake up by myself, right before the alarm. And I wake up on the first try. It doesn’t matter what time I go to sleep, even if it’s just 5 hours before. Yesterday, I woke up to the alarm, but noticed that my dream logically concluded right at the alarm time. Apparently, somewhere deep in the head, the “biological clock” ticks with quite high precision, adjusting every time I look at the clock. And when I go to sleep intending to wake up at seven, somewhere in the sleep, the brain evaluates how much time is left until seven and tries to get enough sleep in that time, or even show me a dream. I wonder if there were experiments where people went to sleep intending to wake up at seven, but their alarms were secretly set for later?
I watched the first part of Simon Shnoll’s lecture on biological clocks – but it’s not about what I’m writing above, it’s just the same term. But the lecture is interesting,
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