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Circa 2014

I love stuff like this:

https://jawbone.com/blog/circadian-rhythm/

It's fascinating to see how information graphically-presented can help identify patterns.

I am one who likes to stay up late, but who also unfortunately has no capacity to function unless I get 7-8 hours of sleep. And since my job gets me up and at work by 7 AM, my days of being a night-owl are pretty much over. I do enjoy being up early, but my preference is to stay up late and hang out until the wee hours.

I was interested to note that Morgan County is one of the places that gets the least amount of sleep, and is also one of the places where people stay up the latest. I'm not sure why that's the case (statistical anomaly? something connected with the rural lifestyle? some other random reason?) but we seem to lead the state in both categories.

I heard recently that sleep has been discovered to be the brain-cleaning time. That, even though it requires a long time for animals to be in a vulnerable state of unconsciousness, it is worth it because our brains accumulate bad chemicals throughout the day, and need cleaning time. I thought that was interesting, because for a long time people didn't know why we needed sleep at all.

I've also heard recently that a power nap (20 min or so) in the early afternoon is a good thing. Which is something I've known for years. :)

So pleasant dreams, y'all!

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