Actually this portion from my last post is so true I am making it a separate post and expanding a bit.
Sometimes Im so exhausted I NEED to nap. And I refuse capitalism to tell me that napping is lazy or unnecessary. NAPPING IS A NECESSITY. NAPPING HAS BEEN PART OF HUMANITY IN EVERY CULTURE FOR LITERALLY 99% OF HUMAN EXISTENCE AND IT IS STILL PART OF THE CULTURE IN COUNTRIES ACROSS THE GLOBE TODAY.
Humans are not meant to stay awake for 16 hours and sleep for 8 hours straight. This idea was literally made up in the 20th century from a man who obviously had a wife to do all the chores and shit for him. Before electricity was common, people used to sleep for like 5 hours at night, wake up for two hours in the dark to tell stories or work on things by the fire or candlelight, sleep for a few hours again before sunrise, and nap in the afternoons. Ancient humans also had natural morning and night people and this likely evolved so that humans could take turns guarding the tribe against predators at night.
The way most of western society sleeps now goes completely against our biology and traditions. Sleep is not something we should fight against or “optimize”. Our biology has already figured out how to do it. What we are doing is wholly unnatural and makes us unhappier and unhealthier in ways we don’t even understand. We need to go back to doing what’s natural and best for our bodies rather than what is best for our bosses.
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