BODY CLOCK QUIZ...
Is It Time to Reset Your Body Clock?
Your Biological Time Test
If you are an owl or lark you probably have a fair inkling of your own biological timing. Yet many people are neither lark nor owl. To know what you are, please take this short test. Please answer the next four questions and tally up the score:
1. Imagine you are greatly enjoying a permanent vacation. You have no responsibilities, no worries. You've got more money than you'll ever need. You can do whatever you like.
What time would you go to bed?
Between 8PM and 9PM
6 points
Between 9PM and 10 PM
5 points
Between 10PM and 11PM
4 points
Between 11PM and Midnight
3 points
Between Midnight and 1AM
2 points
Between 1AM and 2:30AM
1 points
After 2:30AM
0 points
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2. You're still enjoying your very pleasant, unlimited vacation. Considering only your personal desires,
When would you like to wake up?
Anytime Before 6AM
6 points
Between 6AM and 7AM
5 points
Between 7AM and 8AM
4 points
Between 8AM and 9AM
3 points
Between 9AM and 10:30AM
2 points
Between 10:30AM and Noon
1 points
After 12:00 Noon
0 points
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3. Though still enjoying the vacation, you're beginning to feel a little stir-crazy. You think you want to begin a volunteer job. It's work you've done before and that you really enjoy. Of course, it is a job. You're not planning to overdo It. You will work only two hours at a time, contInuing only if you fInd your tasks entertaining and rewarding.
When would you pick your two-hour shift?
Between 5AM and 7AM
6 points
Between 7AM and 9AM
5 points
Between 9AM and 1PM
4 points
Between 1PM and 7PM
3 points
Between 7PM and 11PM
2 points
Between 11PMM and 1AM
1 points
Between 1AM and 5AM
0 points
Insert your answer (points) here:
4. Your vacatIon is providing you great relaxation, rest, and a profound sense of peace. Remembering the very different circumstances of your previous life, you are reminded of times you felt free and at your best.
At those times you would have described yourself as:
Definitely a morning person
6 points
Probably a morning person
4 points
In between a morning and a night person
2 points
Very much a nighttime person
0 points
Insert your answer (points) here:
Add Total of ALL Your Answers:
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If you score 16 to 24 points, you are a lark. If your score was zero to 8 points, consider yourself an owl. What if you score between 8 and 16 points? At least for the present, you are probably a switcher. Switchers find that they can be a bit like a lark or owl. It depends on their work and family situations.
If you're a switcher, do not fret. You're in the majority. Depending on your age, your job, and the relative larkishness and owlness of the people you live with, you probably shIft frequently between living as a morning or a night person. For example, many 9-to-5 workers deciden become owls over the weekend. (Beware, however: Partly as a result this shift in body clocks, Monday morning is the peak time of deatht the United States.) Unfortunately, our capacity to shift inner time lessens as we become older. It's the same as with many other biologically based abilities. It just grows more difficult to do things well as we get older. There are few marathon runners and swing-shift workers over the age of seventy.
