the right to sleep

  • valuable sleep is uninterrupted, predictable, regular, cycling
  • sleep deprivation has a huge effect on health yet a huge amount of people are overworked/overstressed into chronic lack of sleep
  • sleep deprivation is a torture method
    • pre 10am workday start said to be literally torturous (find source)
  • decreasing amounts of sleep allotted to us as we grow up but is this with scientific basis or just perpetuated by capitalism
  • older children and teens have definitely been found to need a huge amount more sleep than they get, and later mornings (find the sources on this)
  • search ‘role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis’
  • search ‘heart disease caused by inflammation in the circulatory system caused by sleep deprivation’
  • lack of sleep for even one night severely compromises your immune system
  • historical/cultural relationships with sleep
    • countries that still practise siesta
    • varying acceptance of daytime napping
    • historical commonality of biphasic sleep
      • sleep 4/5 hours, get up and relax for 30mins-1hr, then sleep for another 4/5 hours
      • sleeping the whole night through came with lightbulbs
  • night/morning people has scientific basis, varying times of natural alertness allows pack animals to protect each other (find source)
  • tendencies for differing sleep schedules in neurodivergent people
  • delayed sleep phase syndrome, sleep studies inadequate, sleep management treatment in general poor