Personally I think it's all daft. We have circadian rhythms that have been honed by nature over millions of years, and habits that most comfortably match it. We don't need Mr. Franklin coming along and telling us we're all idiots for not getting to sleep at 9PM and waking up at 5AM. Then creating a law to force us to sleep the way he does. If he were on a more sensibly denominated bill I would tear one up in rage.

And I suspect Ms. Maddow is truly confused. DST means you are forced to go to sleep earlier, and get up earlier. If you like staying up late, you're being screwed. I think what she likes is really just the longer days that come with summer. And somehow thinks that messing with the clocks is what causes that.

Receiving department, 3 a.m.
Staff cuts have socked up the overage
Directives are posted
No callbacks, complaints
Everywhere is calm

Hong Kong is present
Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Grimsleeper, Grimsleeper, Grimsleeper

The bull and the bear are marking
Their territories
They're leading the blind with
Their international glories

I'm the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don't wake me with so much
Grimsleeper

They cried the other night
I can't even say why
Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
Its furious balancing

I'm the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night

I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache grey
Don't wake me with so much
Don't wake me with so much. The
Ocean machine is set to 9
I'll squeeze into heaven and valentine
My bed is pulling me,
Gravity
Grimsleeper, grimsleeper
grimsleeper, grimsleeper, grimsleeper

Light therapy alone does not re-set your circadian rhythms. Light therapy combined with sleep (which the above video does not include) are the only effective ways to help re-set your internal clock.

You can't just point white light at yourself and suddenly be re-energized.

But yes, I want this in my house.

Drug induced sleep can be of two varieties, (1) "drug assisted" (mostly benzodiazepines, like lorazepam (Ativan), or imidazopyridines, like Zolpidem (Ambien), and (2) true "general anesthesia." Benzos assist sleep but because they are potent amnestics, one is less likely to remember a dream, even if you had one. Melatonin is not a benzo. It is an endogenous hormone, produced by the pineal gland. Melatonin is involved in regulating circadian rhythms, although it is not the main determinate. High doses of melatonin seem to be associated with more REM sleep and more dreaming.

"General Anesthesia" is not normal sleep and, rather, is unconsciousness produced by specific inhibition of neuronal communication (synapsis), whether by inactivation of protein channels on cell membranes, or by inhibition of GABA receptors, (a neurotransmitter). Deep levels of general anesthesia can flat-line your EEG, meaning your brain is totally shut down and is doing no synaptic work at all.
However, people may do normal sleeping after recovery from general anesthesia and they do occasionally relate dreaming during the period of recovery. In particular, the sedative/anesthetic Propofol is associated with some "erotic" dreaming and I have had some people relate rather vivid and interesting content. I had one older gentlemen who wanted to be put "back to sleep" so he could continue his "relations" with Gina Lollibrigida.