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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Sandy; you may be right about hibernating. My body doesn't care about 
daylight savings time...I wake up when the sun comes up and get tired when 
it goes down.  I feel like I could sleep 12 hours a night in the winter. I'm 
awake at 5am in the summer, but in the winter, if it's a really dark 
morning, I sometimes don't wake up until the sky brightens up. Not good for 
getting the kids off to school.

I think you are talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I try to get out 
on sunny days and get as much sun as I can. A long string of grey days 
affects my mood.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bunjov AT aol.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: [Homestead] Such a Sense of Urgency...


> Just curious - such a flood of homestead emails the past few days!
>
> Makes me wonder about the Daylight Savings thing - I know it's a 'manmade
> issue', and so I've always discounted it as rubbish, and as one more 
> instance of
> humans messing with Mother Nature. But -
>
> Does anyone else feel the horrible pressure of shorter days? The irony of
> all this being...I have been going to bed earlier (say, 7-8 p.m.) and 
> waking at
> my normal 1-2:30 a.m., but...going back to bed just as the sun  breaks
> through the trees to the east, and all the indoor critters are just 
> getting
> started, waiting for me to open doors and windows - and I feel  compelled 
> to re-wrap
> myself up in my fuzzy blankets and return to total  oblivion.
>
> Something is not right here.
>
> Is it true, this concept of 'winter depression? There's a name for it -
> starts with an 'S', but I can't remember it. If it IS a reality, then do 
> those  of
> us on the list, who live in the northern parts of the world, suffer from 
> this
> more than those of us who live in the southern and western areas?
>
> The depression is not the worst part. I am increasingly 'antsy' about
> leaving the house - at all - to do anything. Driving into town now, to 
> keep
> doctors' appointments, and even do the simplest of shopping, have become 
> major
> endeavors. Scary. Could this be some sort of primal urge to hibernate 
> until the
> days grow longer and 'things' start to grow again (including myself)?
>
> Please don't laugh at my questions.
>
> And we haven't heard from Don yet. His input - because he is such a 
> 'reader'
> - is always welcome.
>
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
> Yawning and stretching at almost 11:00 a.m. and wondering where the day 
> has
> gone. What a waste.
>
>
>
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