People love to act like someone staying up until 3am and sleeping until noon is lazy but really, when you think about it, their sleep schedule is the exact same as someone a few timezones over.
Maybe east coast snoozers are actually just the pacific early risers that never got to be in the right part of the world.
Maybe all someone needs to fix their sleep schedule is a move west? The formulas arent complete but I’m refining my thesis.
Humans didn’t evolve for everyone to have the sleep schedule, because that would have been an incredibly dangerous arrangement for the vast majority of our existence.
We stay up late when young, “normal” in middle aged, and asleep at 4pm but awake when the teens are just going to bed when elderly
Obviously there’s variation, but almost no one keeps the same schedule their whole lives.
I think that a lot about how many couples I know have mild friction because one of them is an early riser and the other more of a night owl. It can be a bit annoying, but for most of human existence splitting the time you’re awake and vigilant must have been quite an advantage.
People think 2,000 years is a long time, but evolutionary that was like, last Tuesday.
We’re not built for modern society.
We say this as if modern society were imposed on us by aliens—but we built it ourselves with the freedom to adapt it to our existing biological needs.
We just really fucked it up.
There’s been times me and husband pass in the night because we simply slept different schedules. It’s annoying but eventually they realigned!
I’m loving this comment section lol this was just a silly idea and here’s a really interesting conversation happening under it