What Time is the Sunrise?
Like the impressionists, we see a magical sense of ambiance in cities that never sleep; places where we don’t have to pick between living as morning larks or night owls, a place where dawn-to-dusk and dusk-to-dawn can flourish simultaneously and cross pollinate; where the vice of darkness and virtue of mornings can be experienced in equal amounts.
Alexi Gunner • Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus
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Allow celestial bodies to set your sleep-wake pattern. Wake with the sun. Know the phases of the moon. Navigate sometimes by the light of the full moon. Navigate sometimes as dawn emerges, or as dusk falls, paying attention to the shifting of your senses as light becomes more, or less, available. Spend time outside, letting your body take cues from
... See moreHeather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
It’s a privilege to live by clock time alone and ignore nature’s urgent temporalities.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
Go to sleep early enough that you wake without artificial help—with the sun beginning to come in your windows, for instance, rather than with an alarm that bursts into…
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Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
If there isn’t enough light (type and quality - sunlight) in the morning with a low solar angle, the wakefulness system doesn’t get triggered properly. Artificial light doesn’t activate it properly, get sunlight in the light as soon to waking as possible. Get outside with no sunglasses, through glass decreases the efficiency by 50%, once the sun is... See more
Andrew Huberman • Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake
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to appreciate time is light is to share a single and universal commonality with the non-human world, as a bridge to para-human consciousness.
Medium • Towards digital psychedelia and the radical dilation of time
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Spend time outside every day—sunlight calibrates your sleep-wake cycle far better than…
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Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
It’s Always There I’m strongly affected by the sun. When it’s a bright day, I feel energized. When it’s gloomy, I’m gloomy. On those overcast days, it helps to tune in to the fact that the sun is still there. It’s just hidden behind a thicker layer of clouds. At noon, the sun is high in the sky, regardless of how light or dark it is outside.