I read the whole article and I still don’t know why people sleep less. They mention stress and out of whack circadian rhythm which can mean many things.
I think we do it to ourselves. More and more people are sleeping less than ideal sleep or have chronic sleep issues. We pump our systems full of caffeine and alcohol and our body hardly knows how to process it for actual sleep. We sit on bright blue screens until minutes before we think we can sleep. We hear noises indicating the start and end of a workday. We have artificial lights all throughout our homes and bedrooms where we sleep. We aren’t regularly told by anyone but our guardians that sleep is important in the long term and if we don’t work on good sleep habits today, we’ll suffer as we age.
While wild animals and early human just have to worry about predators, that seems like social sleeping has deterred this problem for millennia.
I think we do it to ourselves. More and more people are sleeping less than ideal sleep or have chronic sleep issues. We pump our systems full of caffeine and alcohol and our body hardly knows how to process it for actual sleep. We sit on bright blue screens until minutes before we think we can sleep. We hear noises indicating the start and end of a workday. We have artificial lights all throughout our homes and bedrooms where we sleep. We aren’t regularly told by anyone but our guardians that sleep is important in the long term and if we don’t work on good sleep habits today, we’ll suffer as we age.
While wild animals and early human just have to worry about predators, that seems like social sleeping has deterred this problem for millennia.