I’m weird in a lot of ways, but what a lot of people find the strangest about me is that I can almost always wake up without an alarm within 5 minutes of when I intend to. And that’s no matter how sleepy I am. I set the time I want to spring up in my head and just wake up. I don’t know how; it just happens.

For more than a decade as a working adult, I didn’t even own an alarm clock.