Gremlins in your sleep

[Harrishawk]

Hi everyone.

I managed to get up nice and early this morning before the rains came for my first run for 10 days, so not knowing what to expect, it turned out to be uneventful, at 06.00 am the park was empty and i really enjoyed getting out and running again.

Yesterday i prepared all my running clothes ready for the morning, and last night i set my alarm for 05.00, but then sometime during the night i woke up thinking "you don`t want to get up that early, you don`t want to go running" and i turned the alarm off.

I then wake at 05.00 without the aid of an alarm, get up, wash, get changed into my running gear and i`m out the door and away as planned.(ran 5K and was really pleased that i made the effort.)😊

I just wondered, this isn`t the first time i`ve had second thoughts in the middle of the night, and have managed so far to ignore these doubts. Is it just me or do any of you also get gremlins in your sleep.🤷‍♀️

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I personally don't but well done you for going out and getting it done! 😊 I know my run days in advance and mentally prepare to go so I have not yet missed one as once I've committed in my mind then the gremlins go.

[Harrishawk 60minGraduate in reply to Hidden]

Thanks👍

[Hidden in reply to Harrishawk]

You're doing all the right things. Just keep going!

[CBDB Graduate10]

Yes, I recognise this but I use these kinds of gremlins intentionally to set my internal alarm .

Basically ever since I can remember I have been able to set my internal body alarm clock ⏰, wether I need to get up at 5, 6 or 8:30 am. But I ‘set’ my internal alarm in the evening before, by thinking of the time whilst inducing a short burst of panic (‘what if I oversleep’), and then relax again. And that then means I wake up on time. This has never failed me and since 30 years or more, I never had an alarm clock, and it is quite exact to quarter of an hour!

So it sounds like you just set your own internal alarm! Aren’t our minds and body intriguing!

[Harrishawk 60minGraduate in reply to CBDB]

Yes you are quite right,

I`ve always hated to be woken up by an alarm all my working life , and always managed to wake at the right time with my internal clock, never failed me, even during 10 years of early starts(04.30)

I think by now early starts are a habit with me.

all the best.