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Humans are still a diurnal species, even in the summertime

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2012-05-19 17:48:17 in Meatspace
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

People should sleep during the day and work at night, when it's cooler.


Discuss.

Comments

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    I approve. 

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    We should all just become Batman, clearly.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    "become"?

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    Pass. Way too cold at night here.
  • KrakenKraken

    Agreed, at least, here in the tropics.

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    I demand a surge in 24/7 businesses. So for those nights when I have a jonesing for beef stroganoff, I don't have to wait until 10am when most normal food places open. 

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Broken biorhytm reporting in.

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    Personally, I want to go back to the days before artificial lighting, where people would sleep, then become half-awake for a few hours, then sleep some more before waking up.

  • FuschlatzFuschlatz
    A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

    I would personally have no qualms about becoming nocturnal, if I had to for a job or something.

  • RaydereRaydere
    My arms are falling off!

    I'm already doing that and it's kinda suffering. I like mornings as a time when I'm up and everything is all calm and quiet, not "okay time to go to bed."

  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue

    I'm pretty much already notcturnal. I get up in the late afternoon so I can have a few hours for things that aren't open at night, like shopping and school, but I usually end up staying up until 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning.


    This might have to stop once I can find a job, though.

  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    Evolution is slow.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    ^^ Or you could get a night job?

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I'm still mad at evolution for not natural selecting the fuck out of sleep.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^Apparently sleep makes a species more likely to survive.
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    How does that make any sense?

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-05-25 21:41:00
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^^ Yeah, I know. But you'd think that an animal that doesn't spend half it's life unconscious would be less likely to get eaten than one that's always alert. :V



    Stupid reality, always messing stuff up.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    It makes you seek out shelter and live in groups, which respectively increase the likelihood of survival and reproduction.
  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    It's also good in the sense that it's really the only time the body can focus all of its energy on improving you. Studies have shown that good sleep schedules increase your memory and IQ, and that sleepy time is when most adolescents do their growing.

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    It's only a third of its life unconcious.


     


    So INUH, sleep makes us less reckless and therefore live longer?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^It's a guess, but it makes sense.



    ^^That helps too.
  • KilgoreTroutKilgoreTrout

    I agree that we should sleep during the day and do things at night, if the start of night = sunset.  I hate having to go out in the blazing sun and being given a harsh reminder that Canada can get fucking hot.


    As for sleep, I think I'd like it better if we'd evolved in a way that allowed me to:


    -fall asleep at will and wake up exactly when I needed to, like if I was bored and had a long wait ahead of me;


    -easily control our dreams.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Oh yes, I totally agree with those two things.

  • KilgoreTroutKilgoreTrout

    Right now, it is totally dark out and nevertheless 30 degrees Celsius here.


    That's 86 Fahrenheit.


    And it's still May...

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