Sleep and Body Patterns

I've just watched the ending of Horizon and about sleep and body patterns and utterly fascinating it was. Can anyone find out if there is a repeat please? Thanks.

Sounds interesting.I know when I first looked after my Dad I went to bed very early with my son,it was so boring there.I felt alot better for it though. I tend to stay up late these days,my concentration is much better in the late hours but then I feel rough in the morning .Can't win LOL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

Worthwhile for any bbc content.

I nearly got carried away watching Eastenders there LOL,the only soap I watch,I seem to miss it these days though

My sleeping patterns are weird. I either sleep for 12 hours or have 6 so I take a chill pill but I used to grow Valarian root in my old house which smells like wet hiking socks but made in a tissane knocks you out. Apparently, eating a lettuce sandwich or a Banana is good as its full of serotonin and chamomile tea.
I have a philosophy that all electrical things should be banned from the bedroom. The energy they give of is bad for the natural biorythms and so i have no tv or phones in my bedroom and its all cream and white with 400 count Egyptian cotton bed sheets, various books all over the floor, drawers and socks and bottles of evian strewn all over the floor that i trip over in the night when going for a piddle.
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Did you watch that Horizon programme the other night, Lola, about sleep and light and body patterns?

Some weeks i can sleep great. Then like the last 3 night rubbish, last night 2
hrs i slept for ...and i wont want sleep in the day even tho im really tired

I think that in an ideal world scenario, we hadnt ought to have curtains and we should all have natural patterns sleeping when its dark and waking up when dawn comes. Clocks are all wrong imo and if humans were meant to have clocks then we would have been born with them. Go back to the peasant past .
Light boxes are supposed to mimmick nature. I would love to live in a mud hut and own a few pigs and chickens in the middle of Ireland with a fire. Modern day life is fecking up biorythms and causing rage and angst in people because its all clock watching and shit. I wonder, I wonder if the pigmies in mud huts are happier than people who buy crap in packets and use blenders and microwaves and cars ?

I often wonder too what it would be like to live without all the trappings of modern life. Not to live a life of endless drudgery though and endless work, but some leisurely life with work.

Shine wrote:

I often wonder too what it would be like to live without all the trappings of modern life. Not to live a life of endless drudgery though and endless work, but some leisurely life with work.

It must be wonderful not to have any worries ..and to just be able to sleep and not worry
about anything ....Bliss

lolarose wrote:

I think that in an ideal world scenario, we hadnt ought to have curtains and we should all have natural patterns sleeping when its dark and waking up when dawn comes. Clocks are all wrong imo and if humans were meant to have clocks then we would have been born with them. Go back to the peasant past .
Light boxes are supposed to mimmick nature. I would love to live in a mud hut and own a few pigs and chickens in the middle of Ireland with a fire. Modern day life is fecking up biorythms and causing rage and angst in people because its all clock watching and shit. I wonder, I wonder if the pigmies in mud huts are happier than people who buy crap in packets and use blenders and microwaves and cars ?

I have one of these light boxes,Lola,I never remember to use it though except at night when it's too late, darkness does'nt do for me.My mood changes when the clocks change,not long to go now .

On that Horizon programme, I found it surprising how exercise in the morning was virtually of no use at all for blood pressure, and that only after a few hours of midday was exercise good for blood pressure. In evidence it stated that most of the world records had been broken in the late afternoon/early evening. But surely that has more to do with when these athletic events take place, rather than the afternoon being better than the morning for energy and performance levels.