We’ve almost made it through the winter of 2014-15, almost and spring is around the corner.

The first signpost of the new season arrives in the wee hours Sunday when we turn our clocks ahead one hour to start Daylight Savings Time. However, “springing forward” as fun as it sounds, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, according to may sleep specialist.

People actually have a harder time adjusting when we ‘spring forward,’ because we’re losing an hour of sleep. Many that are already chronically sleep deprived can’t afford to lose any more.

In fact, a survey released this week from the National Sleep Foundation found that, on average, Americans report a sleep debt of about 26 minutes on work days (that’s the gap between how much shut-eye people say they need and how much they actually get.