Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2016 at 7:01 am by ignoramus.)
For some crazy reason, it just popped into my head.
You know in ST TNG, where we see the young ones being looked after, like kindergarten, (obviously the voyage is multigenerational as they allow fornicating).
These new baby humans have never seen or synced with earth days/nights. Out the window is permanent black with the odd celestial object.
How would their body/mind react to that? Does the mind set an arbitrary sleep cycle and normalises to that through repetition?
Or is there an internal hard wired clock somewhere in the dna which always knows when the body should be naturally asleep, based on the earth cycle?
We are humans, therefore all our (at least primate) evolution has been in the presence of the earth day/night cycle.
I suppose the same can be said for those living long periods on the space station? No adverse effects?
You know in ST TNG, where we see the young ones being looked after, like kindergarten, (obviously the voyage is multigenerational as they allow fornicating).
These new baby humans have never seen or synced with earth days/nights. Out the window is permanent black with the odd celestial object.
How would their body/mind react to that? Does the mind set an arbitrary sleep cycle and normalises to that through repetition?
Or is there an internal hard wired clock somewhere in the dna which always knows when the body should be naturally asleep, based on the earth cycle?
We are humans, therefore all our (at least primate) evolution has been in the presence of the earth day/night cycle.
I suppose the same can be said for those living long periods on the space station? No adverse effects?
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