Oh wait, it’s not cicadian rhythms, it’s circadian rhythms — the idea that our bodies are in tune with the natural cycles of the seasons. So in the summer, when the sun rises early, we rise up early, and during the short days of winter, our bodies want to slow down more. I’m definitely feeling it these days, as we turn the corner into autumn. This morning I could barely drag myself out of bed, and I was fifteen minutes or so into my commute to work before the sun peeked up over the horizon. While this schedule suited me just fine over the last few months, I find myself wanting to shift things around more now.
Wouldn’t it be nice if our everyday schedules could accommodate these changes in our body’s cycles? I had hoped, for a while there in the late 1990’s, that the whole mid-day nap thing would catch on. Sadly, it was not to be. It all seems kind of artificial, this whole 9-to-5 idea. We’ve gotten so used to it that I think many of us just assume that it must be this way, but I wonder if somewhere on a parallel universe somewhere people are getting up when they feel like it, resting when they feel like it, and still living productive enough lives.
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