cynic-al – Member
Body clocks with 25 hour days?
Seems 3 million years of evolution got something wrong!Or very right? If it was the other way round and we worked to a 23 hour cycle it’d be useless if a saber-tooth tiger attacked at 23:01, so an hour extra gives some flexibility to run away
Or just stay awake longer gives more time to breed, therefore natural selection favours those with more energy at bedtime?
OR a sedatery lifestyles going to leave people with more energy, if you were hunting/gathering you’d be doing that every hour of daylight you had, then probably sleeping right through the darkness? So we evolved for a 24 hour day, then got lazy.
On the other hand there are plenty of tribes who sleep in 2 sleeps, so they go to bed whent he sun sets, wake up at 2am, have a meal, do work, sing songs, whatever, then go back to bed.
STW fatties favourite book the 4 hour body explains some stuff about how to survive/thrive on about 2:30 of sleep a day! You just split it evenly so every 4 hours you sleep for exaclty 20 minutes, kinda how round the world yacht racers cope.