I had a similar discussion, half-jokingly, about a legal ban on coffee in workplaces. Drinking it is optional, but non drinkers get disadvantaged and really need to join to keep up.
I really hope that this eventually becomes a thing but I am super sad that it won't any time soon. It really sucks to learn that some lucky people just don't need nearly as much sleep and that I'm just not one of those lucky people and will never be able to achieve that.
I do not like having to sleep so much. I understand the argument that it could become normalized like e.g. caffeine, but I personally would like to spend closer to the third of my life that is considered "normal" than to the half or over-half of my life that sleep currently seems to be.
Fascinating stuff. Reminds me of the decreased sleep need associated with hypomania—something attributed to historical figures like Alexander Hamilton or contemporary ones like Elon Musk. I wonder if there’s a shared neurobiological mechanism here, perhaps involving orexin pathways. If so, exploring this overlap might unlock even more interesting avenues for research and therapies.
I've always thought there's a third variable: something causes the lack of sleep, and the lack of sleep causes mania. Disturbed sleeping causes a wide variety of different psych symptoms in different people. An acquaintance was almost committed for schizophrenia - but sleeping pills fixed the night horrors and they avoided commital.
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