What is my body's aversion to sleeping on my day off?

I assume you don’t want to go to work, or at minumum you don’t want to have to get ready to go to work. When you wake up early on your day off do you have a bunch of errands you need to get done?

over time the body creates an inner timetable outlining when to be a wake and sleepy, based on habit. a day off is an anomaly and not part of the time table. in short, the body expects another workday on your day off.

@ragingloli has it. It’s a form of Operant Conditioning called Temporal Conditioning.

@pdworkin @ragingloli But the OP is saying she/he wakes up earlier on the day off.

Oh. Well, then she’s wack.

@JLeslie: this morning, I do have an errand to run.. but usually I don’t.

Sleepy-time tea works wonders.

I respond the same way. I wake up on Sat mornings, earlier than M-F’s , with a clear mind ; nothing pulling at me from the work environment and the whole Sat and Sun is MINE, ALL MINE, and I am going to love filling them up. Weekend endorphins are a reality!

You don’t want to waste your day off? I wake up early on Saturdays and Sundays so I have as much free time as possible before sent back on Monday morning.

@JONESGH I don’t think sleeping counts as a waste of time. Compared to a lot of other things, its probably one of the best uses of time. In fact….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities true, but what im thinking on days off is i want to wake up early so i can do all of the things i like to do, since nothing is required of me today.

I do like to wake up early on my days off, but not at 5am, and certainly not after waking up every three hours the night before.

My son, age 9, is like that, too. Impossible to get out of bed on a school day; jumps up twice as early on weekends so he can run up and watch TV.

I think that as @virtualist said, the time is yours, so you want to take advantage of that as much as you can.