The other day I went to a bar in my city that held up a sign saying ‘NO caps and NO fanny packs’ and I laughed until I had tears in my eyes cause that was the greatest stab against margem sul culture I have ever seen in my life and a great way to keep the chungas out of your establishment
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
– Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
– Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
– According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
– Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
– Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
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First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels”
this is how hobbits can have two breakfasts
“permanent jet lag” sounds about right.
No idea how to fix this.
Workday siestas would help the feelings of needing to do a list of things after work, which would make winding down for sleep earlier easier, giving time for two sleeps. But that would mean 6hr workdays as the norm and that’s just crazy socialist talk.
This reminds me of how Islamically, it’s sunnah (the Prophet’s tradition) to sleep soon after ‘Isha (and the length of time between ‘Isha/night prayer and Fajr/dawn prayer is about eight hours!), but also wake up at some point in the night to pray optional-but-recommended tahajjud [the night vigil] prayers, and then go back to sleep!
There’s a special supplication for one who wakes in the night too, which you can read and then go back to sleep or better yet, pray two units of prayer after it!
And this doesn’t seem to be unique to Arabs or Muslims either, just found this article on the subject!
During this waking period people were quite active. They often got up, went to the toilet or smoked tobacco and some even visited neighbours. Most people stayed in bed, read, wrote and often prayed. Countless prayer manuals from the late 15th Century offered special prayers for the hours in between sleeps.
Ekirch found that references to the first and second sleep started to disappear during the late 17th Century. This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.
“He knew this, even in the horror with which he started from his first sleep, and threw up the window to dispel it by the presence of some object, beyond the room, which had not been, as it were, the witness of his dream.” Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1840)
“Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning.” Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615)
“And at the wakening of your first sleepe You shall have a hott drinke made, And at the wakening of your next sleepe Your sorrowes will have a slake.” Early English ballad, Old Robin of Portingale
The Tiv tribe in Nigeria employ the terms “first sleep” and “second sleep” to refer to specific periods of the night
Forcing nightolws to follow morning people routine is too close to home. I have had moments where i would try to get to bed early only to fall alseep 1or 2 hours later, then spending the morning and the rest of the day exhausted, I think it was worse during highschool when the teacher would berate you for falling alseep in class as if it was your fault.
Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money to spend at Hot Topic, and no particular relation to Gerald Way (To my regret, as he an extremely attractive individual), I thought I would travel to Hogwarts and see the magical part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find people telling me I look like Amy Lee (and if you do not know who she is, I request you quickly remove yourself from the premises); whenever it is snowing and raining and there is no sun in my soul; whenever i find myself wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, and especially whenever the preps get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from flipping my long ebony black hair with purple streaks and red tips, and methodically putting up my middle finger at them- then, I account it high time to get to Hogwarts as soon as I can.
self care is watching those all gameplay & cutscenes videogame compilations on youtube in order to simulate the experience of playing games you dont have the money for
me, sitting down to watch 6-8 full hours of fun content while someone infinitely better than me at videogames handles all the hard parts:
also games that I’m curious about but don’t actually WANT to play for myself
Games I want to play but cant cause I dont have the time to play this many hours to see the main plot
All CAS and Buy items from Luxury Party recoloured in @noodlessorbets‘ 65 Sorbets. I’m doing Laundry Day next, but you can vote HERE what you would like to see recoloured after that c:
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