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I woke up about four o’clock in the morning and realised that I had not reset my alarm. I wake up at 5.45 on my days off, and at 4.30 when I work, so I needed to reset my alarm for the weekdays, but knew that I hadn’t. I reset the alarm to ring at 4.30 for the workdays of the week, and went back to bed. Surprisingly, I fell asleep again. I woke once more of my own accord at 4.28 and got up.

I was puzzled when the alarm did not go off at 4.30. My back-up alarm, set for a few minutes later, had not gone off, either; in fact, I had not even turned it on the night before. I checked and saw that I had indeed set my primary alarm for 4.30 Monday morning.

I dressed and started my morning routine. It was then that I remembered I had watched a movie the previous night. The previous night was Saturday. It was now Sunday. That’s why the alarm set for the weekday mornings had not gone off. It’s why I did not set my secondary alarm.

I reset my alarm for 5.45 and went back to bed. The cats were puzzled but, since I had not begun preparing their breakfasts, they were not annoyed. They let me sleep for another hour.

While it was weird that my mind should have thought I had lost a whole day, it was a pleasant feeling to be given another day off, when I clearly had been thinking - at least subconsciously - that the weekend was over. I suppose I was like Panasonic: just slightly ahead of my time...