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Probably sounds crazy to people with shorter winters, but you really don't know what you have until you don't have it.
Absent extreme situations, such as a hurricane approaching (in which case one should get up and leave the region), the weather has zero bearing on whether I should get up or even whether I feel like getting up.
(And yes, I am exposed to the weather daily--I walk to work each day, rain, shine, snow, warm, or 20 below.)
Because most people would need to get out of bed for beer.
Without checking the weather though, anytime it's rainy in the morning I always feel 300% more lethargic, as if some primal instinct is saying "it's raining out there, better just not."
I also have a folder of rain sounds collected off of archive.org and some other places, for when I want to get deep work like programming done. I feel much better at creative tasks when I'm relaxed by rain sounds.
I was going to sign up for this, but now I won't knowing that their login page has not a whiff of security about it.
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$2,500 stretch goal: Will stretch after climbing out of bed
$5,000 stretch goal: Will perform universe-encompassing long yawn during duration of both stretches
The only alternative is: return (rand() > RAND_MAX/2) ? "Yes" : "No";
For a long time I generally got up as late as I could get away with, but am now very glad I managed to coax myself into being a (relatively) early-riser.
If we were such simple creatures that we could be so easily conditioned to not sleep because of previous non-sleep activities in bed, sex of all things would be one of the biggest drivers of insomnia. It produces a significant reward and we're very much wired to want it - as such, it would make a powerful unconditioned stimulus if anything could. Therefore, the previous poster's claim isn't even valid on its face. Sex should absolutely be done elsewhere if we're so easily conditioned away from sleep.
Instead, I'd substitute the idea that things like light exposure do matter (so tv and digital tools are often counter to falling asleep). Another useful idea is the rule of thumb that if you're trying to sleep but can't, after some period of time of tossing and turning, get up, keep the lights dim but do something else and come back in a little bit and try to get yourself in the sleep groove again. It's conceptually not so different from a pilot aborting a landing and going around again, I guess.
Right now it's -23C here, with no wind and a bright sun reflecting off of perfect powder. It's so beautiful that it's one of those days you contemplate skipping work -- there are not too many nice skiing days left this season.