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You're absolutely right. I'm supposedly a "night owl" and "not a morning person" but it's total nonsense. I've spent considerable time in my travels in tropica
by fleddr 5y ago
You're absolutely right. I'm supposedly a "night owl" and "not a morning person" but it's total nonsense.
I've spent considerable time in my travels in tropical nations. Two days there and I'm a completely different person.
The day starts at 5:30 AM, as soon as light arrives. And will you look at that, I'm jumping out of bed full of energy. Absolutely unimaginable back home. It's made possible because life slows down after 6PM. You eat, relax, and go to bed around 9pm. For the simple reason that there's nothing to do, and nobody else is doing anything either.
Unlimited light and distractions has made me a night owl, it's not a natural thing or character trait.
- brimble 5y agoYeah, I didn't stick with it (it's really hard to resist the temptation, including temptation to try to be productive at night) but because I tried it I do know now that I'm not a night owl, at all. I'm just a normal person in the West in this century. Which manifests as living like a night owl. I admit my speculation that this explains at least 50% of modern sleep difficulty in developed countries is not based on hard data, but I'd say it's a pretty damn solid hypothesis. Yet everything's all "take magnesium" or "exercise more" or "use redshift" or whatever. Which is probably helpful, but seems like it's ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that we might have too much and too good always-available entertainment (and our lighting situation... after I got used to using candles, which was much faster than I expected, normal electric room lighting was shockingly bright, like I couldn't understand how I thought it was desirable or even OK before).