Waking up with a silver time in one's mouth

One never really engaged in an alarm clock. It was routinely people, and not things which woke one up.

If there were a supernatural function, it would be the biological clock. For some days with a schedule to anneal to, one would set an alarm for the next day. For example 9.15, yesterday. Today one slowly faded into consciousness and into the morning's light, and upon first impression looked at the digital clock's parameters. 9.14. Another minute to activation.

It was the same yesterday. 9.10, when the clock was set at 9.12 a.m. So was the day before, 6.18, when the clock was 6.20. It was like instead of insomnia, there was this other physiological disorder.