On Oversleeping
I rarely oversleep. It doesn’t matter how late I stay up, I’m usually awake at least fifteen minutes before the alarm goes off. I might hit snooze every nine minutes for an entire hour, sure, but sleeping past the alarm is an alien oddity to me.
This morning, I woke up feeling confused. Something just didn’t seem right; it seemed late. At first I resisted the urge to check my cell phone for the time and thought I’d go back to sleep and wait for the alarm. But what if this could be the one time I overslept? What then? How would a late start affect my day? A mild and irrational-even-if-true panic set in, and I gave in to temptation and pulled my cell phone out from under my pillow. It was 9:16, about three hours after I usually wake up. My alarm had disarmed itself. In addition to this morning, I can think of only two other instances where I slept through an alarm.
