Monk Quixote

I duti­fully woke up and dragged myself to the study before 6am this morn­ing, partly due to hav­ing watched a pro­gramme on the BBC last night that told me how to sleep / wake bet­ter. And one of the things it appeared to argue (I am para­phras­ing) was that if you woke in day­light you could trick your brain into feel­ing like you were more awake than you oth­er­wise felt. The exam­ple given on the pro­gramme was that of Kate Sil­ver­ton wak­ing for her morn­ing shift on BBC Break­fast and using a blue-light-thing to feel bet­ter. For some rea­son, the blue light was deemed more effec­tive than, say, the fridge. (more…)