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Why sleeping in on weekends can ruin Monday

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Shifting your sleep schedule by just two hours on Saturdays completely misaligns your biological clock with the actual time zone. It is a self-inflicted temporal displacement that virtually guarantees Monday morning will be a waking nightmare.

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