Day 177 – The enigmatic miracles of the intricately designed human brain…
Yesterday morning, I had a vivid dream that was so clear seconds before my alarm went off…
This is not the first time this has happened.
This strange, timely occurrence has happened a great many times in the past, specifically when I’ve gone to bed late and have to be up early.
It’s prompted me to speculate that the brain knows the time I intend to wake up and prepares me before the alarm goes off.
I did a Google search and this is the answer I found:
“There’s evidence you can will yourself to wake on time, too. Sleep scientists at Germany’s University of Lubeck asked 15 volunteers to sleep in their lab for three nights. One night, the group was told they’d be woken at 6 a.m., while on other nights the group was told they’d be woken at 9 a.m..
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53710/why-do-i-always-wake-5-minutes-my-alarm-goes
But the researchers lied—they woke the volunteers at 6 a.m anyway. And the results were startling. The days when sleepers were told they’d wake up early, their stress hormones increased at 4:30 a.m., as if they were anticipating an early morning. When the sleepers were told they’d wake up at 9 a.m., their stress hormones didn’t increase—and they woke up groggier. “Our bodies, in other words, note the time we hope to begin our day and gradually prepare us for consciousness,” writes Jeff Howe at Psychology Today.”
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