Originally Posted by
Coluber42
...What makes me hate getting out of bed more than anything, though, is if the room is dark. I lived in Germany for a couple of years for grad school, and I absolutely hated dragging myself out of bed in the winter when everything would just be wet and gray and dark. New England can be a bit like that, especially around December and January, but way better than Germany.
At home I have a lamp in the bedroom with a daylight bulb, on a timer that turns on in the mornings. It isn't a magic bullet, but it does make me generally feel better about the whole business of having to get out of bed if the room is actually brightly lit.
It has no bearing on biking to work though. I'm self employed, and I don't own a car - I bike everywhere.
I'm an ultra-lark, usually up by about 4:30 AM, and I too use a (dim) nightlight to facilitate waking up to get en route by about 5 AM. One advantage of early morning commuting in New England is that when it is still dark, you can't tell how wet gray and dark it really is.