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Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

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Re: Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

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Post by manmal »

txzl wrote: post #27
manmal wrote: post #26

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For me, sleep before midnight is the most important factor. If I need my brain working well the next day, all I need to do is go to bed by 10PM. Even if I wake at 5:30, it will be fine. BTW, nights were I have dream recall afterwards, are the best. Anyone else have made the same observation?

same. but, mostly no recall lately. as I go to bed at 2:00 and sleep 6 hours max

Ouch that’s rough. A few nights like that and life just feels hard for me. Gloomy outlook, bad memory etc

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Post by stavros »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #67
jvidalv wrote: post #62

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You nailed it, commute is the killer. I'm also Spanish, from a very small and rural town. My father is a farmer and does a siesta every day of the year. He comes back at home of working in the farm every day around 1PM, then we have lunch together and he goes on to take a nap (siesta). In winter they are shorter, 30 minutes, as the day is short. In summer, they can go over 1 hour easily, as the day is longer and is h…

> is it's own boss Is his own boss. (And it would be “its” anyway - “it’s” is a contraction for “it is” and is wrong in this context)

Spanish only has two genders, masculine and feminine, so these sorts of mistakes are an interesting revelation of how language works.

Re: Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

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Post by stavros »

gonzalohm wrote: post #69

Not sure I get the point of the author. I really like the Mediterranean schedule but it's far from "solar based" we stay up until midnight normally. I like it from a different point of view, which is that stores are opened after I finish working. The average worker doesn't have time for a siesta in the middle of the day. But once you finish working at 5, things are still open. You can go to the dentist, you can go sh…

He's saying it was solar-based up until a hundred years ago or so, no?

Re: Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

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Post by xethos »

erelong wrote: post #73

It'd be cool to see more people experiment witg different sleep schedules to find what works best for them

It's actually the rest of the world that makes this difficult, in my experience. Working graveyard is fine, it's the hardware stores, the grocery stores, social life, and acceptable hours to do, say, laundry in an apartment, or mow ones lawn, that can make life hard

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Post by Tade0 »

stavros wrote: post #72
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is it's own boss Is his own boss. (And it would be “its” anyway - “it’s” is a contraction for “it is” and is wrong in this context)

Spanish only has two genders, masculine and feminine, so these sorts of mistakes are an interesting revelation of how language works.

My native language in turn doesn't have articles, so people frequently put "a" when there should be "the" and vice versa, or put it where it is normally omitted.

Some features of languages are hard and unless one acquired an intuition early in life, they'll keep making mistakes.

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

stavros wrote: post #72
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is it's own boss Is his own boss. (And it would be “its” anyway - “it’s” is a contraction for “it is” and is wrong in this context)

Spanish only has two genders, masculine and feminine, so these sorts of mistakes are an interesting revelation of how language works.

I know. I’m a native Spanish speaker.

Re: Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

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Post by timerol »

stavros wrote: post #74
gonzalohm wrote: post #69

Not sure I get the point of the author. I really like the Mediterranean schedule but it's far from "solar based" we stay up until midnight normally. I like it from a different point of view, which is that stores are opened after I finish working. The average worker doesn't have time for a siesta in the middle of the day. But once you finish working at 5, things are still open. You can go to the dentist, you can go sh…

He's saying it was solar-based up until a hundred years ago or so, no?

It's an odd article, because it claims that shops being open until 10pm (after a siesta break) is the solar-based schedule

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Post by druskacik »

gonzalohm wrote: post #69

Not sure I get the point of the author. I really like the Mediterranean schedule but it's far from "solar based" we stay up until midnight normally. I like it from a different point of view, which is that stores are opened after I finish working. The average worker doesn't have time for a siesta in the middle of the day. But once you finish working at 5, things are still open. You can go to the dentist, you can go sh…

Time off of work to get a haircut is insane. Aren't there barbershops open in the evening?

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Post by MarkusQ »

fasteo wrote: post #40
p2detar wrote: post #8

> unbroken and uninterrupted eight hour sleep schedule didn't exist and is in fact, a totally modern invention and a consequence of the rigid 9-5 work schedule > An unbroken eight hours of sleep did not always fit with the cycles of the sky above and sleep was therefore rhythmically polyphasic. I tend to disagree. There is serious literature suggesting this, but to my knowledge no concrete evidence confirms it. In fa…

I thought that biphasic sleep was a fact, since there is plenty of evidence of ‘first sleep’ and ‘second sleep’ in doctors’ prescriptions from the pre-industrial era.

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