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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Afaik, the effect depends on if you have unusual circadian rhythm or not

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I noticed my rythem in absence of anything teathering it to the socially acceptable world is about 28 hours. Weird that I am not alone in this apparently.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us. Dozens!

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

Slightly more than two dozen, actually.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i'm pretty confident it's an evolutionary adaption to ensure there are people in the tribe that are wide awake when others are sleeping, to keep an eye on things.

same thing with neurodivergence, sexualities, and left-handedness; it's all stuff that's been boosting our survival as a species when a portion of the population has those differences.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 6 months ago

The next phase of human evolution is here, and it’s gay, autistic, left handed, and sleeping at odd hours. The rest of humanity has yet to realize the end of their epoch is nigh.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

People used to wake up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours then go back to sleep:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mine settled on 36 hour days and it was fantastic. Plenty of time to work, plenty of time to play, and plenty to sleep, every day. ... then I got a 9-5 job and my life became hell again.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Sometimes I really hate the modern world. Especially working remotely doing what could be asynchronous work with colleagues, why the hell can't we just sleep whenever we want, as long as the work gets done.