Feel horrendous every time the clocks go back

Might be winter blues I use to get it but now I enjoy the winter season by socialising heavy

I'm in my 60s, and it hasn't hit me yet

Yes very much me too. Especially as that’s the actual time.

It only takes a quick google search to find lots of articles about the clock change and what is called ‘social jet lag’. It obviously affects some more than others. It’s not in people’s heads though. Many are impacted.

For me it's worse than jetlag. That one hour seems to put my body out of sync. It's even worse in the spring

1 hr doesn’t remotely have a jet lag effect.

Saying that 1 hour doesn't have a jet lag effect doesn't change the fact that I have felt jet lagged today OK? Why does everything on MN turn into an argument. I feel the way I feel

Weird. I barely notice the clocks going back - I often feel better if anything as you get an extra hour in bed. When the clocks go forward, however, it's awful, am exhausted for weeks. I am very much a night person though so really feel the effect on the morning wakings, maybe that has something to do with it?

Usually it's the spring that effs with people more, but each to their own.

I know for one I couldn't stand GMT+1 year round. Having to get up and leave the house before dawn is miserable; using GMT in winter keeps those days to a minimum.

"Naturally" we would wake up based on the sunrise, not at some forced clock hour. The clock change actually means our wake-up times more closely follow the sunrise, but it's still considerably off.

Maybe in future computerised clocks will be so universal that we can automatically change the clock by a minute a day or something.

Not really. My sensitivity means I keep a regular routine. As recommended by my medical team. When I have late nights and significant changes it effects me.

I can’t go to bed early as I have medication that has to be taken at 10pm. I felt hungry at 11, and feel all out of sorts as my body clock and feelings were out of sync with the time.

I like this.
I tend to get a bit pissed off with the messing about with BST etc - but I like that you've framed the change as a positive.

This is why it doesnt make sense, I believe its psychological

Its 10pm now, so actually on Saturday it would have been 11pm right now

So its my bedtime and as it happens Im now feeling tired at 10pm because its 'actually' 11pm (BST)

So Im going to bed in a minute.

My body doesnt know the clock has changed, it just knows I go to bed around now.

Thank you! That was exactly what I was thinking - the darkness will come anyway.

So you never have a night where you sleep slightly less? Stay up a bit later? Need to wake up earlier?

1 hr doesn’t remotely have a jet lag effect.

I love changing the clocks, either way. I get excited for it like its special occasion. I'd be raging if they took it away.

Yes - stubborn body clock, so nudging it by just an hour is hugely disruptive. I love autumn but I'll be bloody knackered for the next 2 weeks...

Fun and cosy when you have no responsibilities but a different matter altogether when you’ve got to commute or pop to the shops after work. No fun. I’d like somewhere in the middle… I’m happiest around April and September when it gets dark around 8pm ish.

love the hour going back. can't deal with it going forward. much much prefer brighter mornings. even on Saturday before clock's went back it was dark till after 8am where I live. if we kept summer time then it would be dark till after 10am by December. it's far easier and more productive to wake up when it's bright. I really wish they would keep this time

YANBU Op, it’s crap. Winter is crap.

and it is, I don’t care what any of the ‘cozy, hot choc, snuggles with my little family’ brigade say!

Me too 🙁I felt dreadful yesterday; achey,nauseous and just downright awful.I slept badly on Saturday night -I'm not a great sleeper anyway but whenever I did drop off I had the sort of unpleasant,repetitive dreams I usually associate with having a fever.
Much better today though.

I don't understand it, it was me who said that further up, but it reminds me of jet lag when I come home from America. But I was literally saying to my friend earlier, I don't understand how 1 hour makes me feel so shite. I am fine going to Spain and back!

All I know is that it makes me feel rotten and I don't like it.

whines

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I think that the fact that it coincided with a full moon didn't help. Although the skies have been so murky this week you wouldn't have known that.

There is another thread on mumsnet discussing this BTW, but I can't find it to link to.

YABU! It's one hour. Woman up. Personally I enjoyed the extra hour in bed. Go out to the gym in the evening and do a workout, swim or exercise class if you want to shake off any low mood or sluggishness.

I remember when my son was little changing the clock by ten minutes for a few days before clock change to gently run into it. Maybe you could try that next time? Can't remember the details and cba to work it out now but I guess you might get the gist 😊

Well said