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Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 6:58 am
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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?
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 7:09 am
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I remember hearing somewhere that we originally could have slept every other day (our species or our ancestors), but we ended up settling into a daily routine instead.
No idea where that came from or how reliable it is.
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 7:14 am
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I can't see any evolutionary benefit to that one though Rob? Was it theorised in a doco or something?
Be aware and awake during the day seems the most beneficial?
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 8:13 am
I really can't remember. It's possible it was someone talking crap. I'm trying to look it up and I can't find anything.
It does sound very odd, yeah.
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 8:36 am
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 8:41 am
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 8:42 am
I could do with some of that right now.
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 4, 2016 at 10:27 am
For reasons not germane to the topic I started going to bed before 8 pm and getting up at 4 am a few years ago. I kept that habit until a few months ago. Then I decided to go back to a more rational schedule. It's taken me four months to train my body to stay up "late" and get up "late", but changing sleep habits can be done, for a lot of people. Professional insomniacs have my sympathy.
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RE: Sleep patterns. Nature or Nurture?
July 5, 2016 at 8:11 pm
On Star Trek, I'm sure the Dr. Beverley has a hypospray to establish any circadian rhythm desired.
No matter what time of day the Borg attack, everyone is always bright and perky. It has to be the meds.
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