Big Time Insomnia - Biological Clock

I’ll call this a follow-up post to my “sleeping situation“. I’ve been doing a lot of pre-exam cramming for biology these days, and my alarm clock’s been causing me a great deal of pain. On top of that, my biological clock is totally messed up (pun intended ).

My biological clock is totally messed up these days. Bedtime was at 3:00 AM last night (or this morning?)… and I had such a painful time getting outta bed. I had quite an epic time battling my alarm clock: blow after blow, it just wouldn’t die off. I’m so good at battling my alarm clock these days that it has become a reflex. While sleeping, my arms would automatically reach out and engage in battle…

Just another day or two till freedom. After the last exam of high school, biology, I’ll be tossing out this info for good. From cramming so much for bio these days, I’ve come up with an explanation for my alarm-clock-battling reflex:

The alarm goes off at a dangerously early hour of 11:00 AM. My sensory neurons (short axon, long dendrite) sense the imminent danger that I’m in and passes off the “pain” — generated by the ear-piercing shrieks of the alarm — through action potentials (domino effect) to the interneurons within the central neverous system (the spinal cord), which then passes the impulses off directly to my motor neurons (short dendrite, long axon), effectively skipping the brain. As a result, my arms passionately battle the alarm clock while I am sound asleep.

(Caution: this post is not intended to be scientifically accurate!)