Internal Time
Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired

I could hardly write a better review than this one, which sent me to Amazon Kindle to buy a copy: [URL not allowed] 24 chapters of the latest news from sleep studies. Good and useful information for Owls like me, and the Larks who have to live/deal with them. The one item I was h......more

I became familiar with Roenneberg's work while taking a chronobiology course that mentioned him and the subject matter in this book. The writing style is a bit like a textbook. I listened to an audio version of this book and found myself zoning out. About a 1/4 through the book, I had to start over......more

Are you a lark, or an owl? Do you bound out of bed 15 minutes before your alarm sounds, or are you continually hitting the snooze button ‘just one last time’? The culprit is your internal clock, a biological device found even in creatures as lowly as bread mould, which is used to synchronise our wak......more

Fascinating new information such as that some people make their melatonin in the day time and so should sleep in the day time which is NOT accepted by our society overall. Larks think everyone should be larks. Owls are more extroverted which sure surprised me. They are also more innovative. Childre......more

This was an accessible book for the non-scientist. A well-written description of internal time, that internal sense we all have that controls the rhythm of our daily lives. Where does it come from? How does it manifest? Can it be affected by other rhythms, environmental, social, or artificial? The a......more