1. How were you affected the last time you experienced multiple instances of having to
get up unusually early, stay up much later than you are accustomed to or experienced
some other change in sleeping patterns?
2. Are you an "owl" or a "lark"? Have you always been owl-ish or lark-ish or were you
different in prior periods of your life?
3. How well does your owl-ness or lark-ness match the wake/sleep schedule you are
currently experiencing, which can vary widely between individuals and be governed by a
number of daily life demands, from non-optional work shifts, to being a new parent with
an infant not concerned with your desire to sleep through the night, to your choice of
leisure activities? What do this week's readings tell you about the potential positive or
negative impacts of your particular matching or non-matching wake/sleep schedule?
How well do the impacts, for better or worse, suggested in the readings align with your
actual experience (e.g. if you are a lark whose schedule requires you to work a late
evening shift or an owl who has to rise very early to get children to school, do you find
yourself running low on energy during times of the day or night when you normally
don't or having trouble concentrating)?
