Wake Up (Apr. 13)

We use alarm clocks to wake ourselves up at a particular time in the morning to get the day started and off to work or wherever on time. Yet it seems a common practice that some will set their alarms earlier than they need to simply so that they can hit the snooze button and potentially get a little bit more sleep. Clearly this is an instance of having to wake up even though one does not really want to. But, have you ever had the opposite senario happen where you are clearly asleep and you wan tto wake up but you cannot? Sure you can chalk it up to being a dream that you cannot wake youself up out of but it seems that there is a reality where the mind is hearing the alarm but the rest of the body continuously hits the snooze button forcing you back to sleep. Still what seems most amazing of all is the way one can set their internal clocks over time to wake up at particular times. See there are many times when people will wake up before their alarm goes off because somehow their body simply knows that it is time to wake up. Of these three scenarios one should be most thankful for this last position as it is by far the least disturbing and most comforting, even if you really do not want to wake up at that particular time.