The Myth Of The Eight-Hour Sleep, How Non 24 Is Complete Cow Manure

In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.

His book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern - in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer's Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria...

Strong evidence of this shifting attitude is contained in a medical journal from 1829 which urged parents to force their children out of a pattern of first and second sleep.

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I mean check it out, all that stuff about "circadian rhythm" is and always has been nothing but a big steaming pile of poo and real scientists know it but "Insomnia" has been a goldmine to the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry. To goose the insomnia market, the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry has now created subcategories of insomnia — chronic, acute, transient, initial, delayed-onset and middle-of-the-night as well as early-morning wakening non-restful sleep. Your insomnia is as unique as you are! It is also no coincidence that “wakefulness” medications cause insomnia and insomnia drugs, because of their hangover, create a market for wakefulness drugs.

"Non 24" , will those disease mongers ever stop ?

 

You can use medical marijuana for sleep. It doesn't make you sleepy really, but it helps put you in a restful state to the extent that you tend to sleep better. I have personally come to begin ingesting 25-35mg of THC around 5:30 PM. This works for me and I generally sleep from around 9:00 PM to 5:30 AM or so.

 

Not me, cannabis gives me anxiety and makes me paranoid, then I end up drinking way too much to try and cover it up.

I just live with being a night owl now, I sleep at about 2 am and wake up around 9 930 and I am fine. I never take commitments, jobs or anything else that requires early wakeups since recovering from alcohol and prescription drugs I used to use to sleep "on time". I will not damage myself to conform.

I have what they have named "delayed phase sleep disorder" its like permanent jet lag.

" People with delayed sleep phase have a natural inclination to go to bed later and wake up later than what is typically considered normal. It is the opposite of advanced sleep phase, in which people go to bed and wake up earlier than normal. People with delayed sleep phase generally go to bed in the early morning hours, from 1 am to 4 am, and wake up later in the morning, from 8 am to 11 am. Socially active people, and those considered ‘night owls’, who feel more awake or sharper during the evenings, are at a high rate of having or getting this disorder. "

"Disorder" the criminal psychiatric pharmaceutical industry will never stop with the disease mongering. Being a night owl is not a "disorder" or broken brain or any of that NON 24 horse shit.

But it is a bummer that I react badly to cannabis. In the right setting like a campout its cool though.

 

I find I sleep better when I have some nice weed or hash to smoke. Try telling that to a GP though.

As for sleep, I like a good solid 7-9 hours per night if I can get it, which is rare.

Times when I have achieved this, when I have something to smoking and somewhere to sleep undisturbed I get healthier, less depressed and I gain muscle from the exercise I like to do.

I'm not so sure two stints per 24hours as opposed to the 8 hours is better for you, but it might be for some people.

I can lie in bed for up to 14 hours, drifting in and out of sleep and get up and feel knackered all day, whereas if I have a couple of beers and a pipe before bed I can get my head down for a solid 6 hours and get up and feel full of energy.

I think the quality of sleep is just as important as the length.

 

That sucks that you get paranoid. I used to have feelings of dread when ingesting cannabis products too. But now I just enjoy the ride. If you ask me you're probably just not used to it. Don't take me at my word though. Ask a cannabis specialist in your area, if you have medical marijuana in your state.

 

I get a bit para on weed if I've not smoked it for a while, then it subsides. If I smoke it regularly I don't get paranoid. I look at is as a healing, spiritual plant and the initial paranoia is the medicine working to get rid of negative energies.