Not exactly the fear of the dark

[andrewducker]

I'm not a fan of waking up in the dark (which we've been doing for a couple of weeks).
I'm even less of a fan of leaving the house in the dark, which will start next week.
Thankfully the clocks go back a few days later, and I get to leave the house in light again until the grim reign of darkness in December and January.

Comments

[channelpenguin]

One thing I swore I would nevetr go back to is HAVING to get up in the dark.
And I succeeded.

Even here, where I get up at 5, because there is a big bright streetlight that goes on at 5 every day like a fake sun!!! Except in summer when it is light before it. I goes on again at 10:30, like a fake moon I guess! The real moon also hits my room window. Yes I have blackout curtain, but I am very snsitive to light, even with my eyes shut, so I can tell.

My cat knows that humans get up when "the sun" cones up, and that they usually also go to sleep when "the moon" goes down.

[rmc28]

Whereas for me the clocks going back is what plunges me into darkness by the time I finish work, and I loathe it. I'm already waking up before sunrise (though not yet before nautical twilight).

Though these days my evening "commute" is usually just closing a laptop, and the main being outside part is afternoon school run, and that only gets close to sunset in December. We're already well past the point where my twice-weekly cycle to hockey practice is in the dark.

[cmcmck]

It's getting dark here too over in the northwest.