Picture the scenario:

You hear this noise.  It’s the most annoying noise you have ever heard, yet all it is is a song playing on the radio.  You start to recognize the song, but quickly go back to being quite annoyed.  You have just been pulled out of a deep sleep, and despite the fact that you have been in that sleeping state for 7-8 hours, you still feel almost dead to the world.  “If only it was a Saturday, then I could sleep in a little…”

Why is it so stinking hard to get up sometimes?  An article I just read suggests that it might be our own doing, especially to those of us sleeping in on the weekends.

Your clock is controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus, a part of the brain that controls the body’s biological rhythms… People who have trouble crawling out of bed probably have an inner clock set to late wake-up and sleep times, a condition known as phase delay.

It is possible to adjust your phase-delayed body clock, Matheson says, but at a price: No sleeping in on the weekends. “When people sleep late on weekends, they revert to their natural phase-delayed rhythm,” she explains. This makes it harder to wake up early on weekdays. You can train yourself to wake up earlier, Matheson says, by setting your alarm 15 minutes earlier each day (and heeding its call).

Also, if you watch TV or visit my lovely website right before beddy-bye time, that might contribute as well.  So stop reading and go to bed!

Read the article first, though.