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Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
The body is now presumed to have more in common with the segmented clock face — which at least approximated natural rhythms, even if it locked them into a standard compatible with the needs of capital — than it does with the “vapor” of internet time.
Lauren Collee • Temporal Belonging
Learning about the lives of hunter-gatherers confirms a suspicion that our modern lives are fundamentally at odds with human nature, that we have lost some kind of primordial freedom. […]
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
Socratic question. If sleep is so unimportant, he asked, then why hasn’t evolution gotten rid of it? His logic was inarguable. When we are asleep, we are accomplishing nothing useful: we are not reproducing, gathering food, or protecting our family. Even worse, in that slumbering state we are extremely vulnerable to predators and enemies, as I had
... See morePeter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it.It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public ... See more
Alexey Guzey • Theses on Sleep
Another problem with trackers is that sleep requirements are unique to each person. The “ideal” eight hours sleep a night is an average – some people will need more, some less; being told you are falling short can cause anxiety. “The population level data would suggest most adults need somewhere between seven and nine hours sleep a night, on averag... See more
Emine Saner • Why sleeptrackers could lead to the rise of insomnia – and orthosomnia
“polyphasic” sleep: breaking sleep up into multiple segments so you can perform well with as little as two hours of sleep per