I hope all the United States Congress men and women “slept” just as well as I did Sunday night.

We stayed up until just after 10 p.m. before retiring for the night.

But since it was only a little after 9 p.m. body time, we didn’t fall asleep.

We started tossing and turning. By 11 p.m. I was wide awake and decided to change venues.

Once on the couch the non-sleeping continued for much of the remainder of the night.

Little naps occurred here and there but I recall looking at the clock at 2, 3:15, 3:55 and five before the alarm went off about 7.

What a nightmare.

And speaking of nightmares, when I did nod off to sleep the dreams I had were some of the all-time weirdest ever.

Even though the Oklahoma State Legislature passed a bill last year to keep Oklahoma on Daylight Savings Time the year round, it takes an act of Congress to allow a state to do so.

The folks in Hawaii and Arizona don’t have to put up with this stuff.

They are on standard time the year around.

A lot of the reasons for getting rid of Daylight Saving Time have to do with the negative health effects of losing an hour of sleep, for which there is plenty of evidence. That one hour disrupts our sleep patterns and throws our circadian rhythms out of whack.

Rep. Kevin West (R-Moore) who advocates for year round DST said since the federal approval is necessary our only option is to go to standard time all 12 months.

That would at least eliminating falling back and springing forward.

There are actually 70 countries across the world who use clock changes, including New Zealand, Paraguay, all 27 EU countries, and the USA with the exception of those two above mentioned states.

New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST back in 1895. His shift-work job gave him spare time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight.

I rue the fact that he ever came up with the idea.

I wish they would just leave the darn clocks alone.