Sleep is weird
Jul 3, 2026 · 30 min · 6 segments
we used to sleep in a very unusual way and I feel like its not talked about enough.
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Jul 3, 2026 · 30 min · 6 segments
we used to sleep in a very unusual way and I feel like its not talked about enough.
But, uh, besides that sleep as a science has always confounded me, right? Because if you look up, if you do any research on sleep, it's very like, it seems cookie cutter at first.
It seems very obvious, you know, eight hours of sleep, uh, be sure that, you know, you're getting plenty of sleep every, every day.
But the thing is, I didn't realize it's really not that cookie cutter.
I mean, growing up, I actually heard a different story.
When I was a kid, there was a lot of PSAs that came out that said, get at least nine hours of sleep each night.
They don't say that anymore.
They say eight hours of sleep.
And I don't know when that shift changed, but I distinctly remember this advertisement when I was younger of Garfield saying straight up, get at least nine hours of sleep each night and you too could be at the top of your game.
I remember this advertisement and I haven't been able to find it since, but I remember distinctly, this isn't a Mandela effect.
I grew up with this.
I heard it numerous times a day.
And now it's just not the narrative.
And I found out more throughout a little bit of research that...
In the past, sleep patterns were very different, very, very, very different in that nowadays we get eight hours of sleep or seven or six hours, five if you're really pushing it.
Some of some of you, maybe three and a half to I'm lowering the numbers and it's getting worse and worse.
And I'm a level with you.
Seven, eight hours of sleep each night, you should be fine.
Some people need more.
I'll be honest.
I've had nights where I go to sleep and I wake up after 14 hours of sleeping.
That's your body's way of saying, hey, I needed to recover a little extra.
And sometimes you will sleep past alarms straight up.
I remember in one of my old jobs where I had crazy long hours, I had to call in sick and It was an insane amount of hours that I wasn't getting of sleep where I was regularly getting four hours of sleep each day.
Like it was that bad.
So the thing that I learned about the past is that there was a time where people would sleep for four hours, wake up and go around and do stuff.
But, uh, besides that sleep as a science has always confounded me, right? Because if you look up, if you do any research on sleep, it's very like, it seems cookie cutter at first.
It seems very obvious, you know, eight hours of sleep, uh, be sure that, you know, you're getting plenty of sleep every, every day.
But the thing is, I didn't realize it's really not that cookie cutter.
I mean, growing up, I actually heard a different story.
When I was a kid, there was a lot of PSAs that came out that said, get at least nine hours of sleep each night.
They don't say that anymore.
They say eight hours of sleep.
And I don't know when that shift changed, but I distinctly remember this advertisement when I was younger of Garfield saying straight up, get at least nine hours of sleep each night and you too could be at the top of your game.
I remember this advertisement and I haven't been able to find it since, but I remember distinctly, this isn't a Mandela effect.
I grew up with this.
I heard it numerous times a day.
And now it's just not the narrative.
And I found out more throughout a little bit of research that...
In the past, sleep patterns were very different, very, very, very different in that nowadays we get eight hours of sleep or seven or six hours, five if you're really pushing it.
Some of some of you, maybe three and a half to I'm lowering the numbers and it's getting worse and worse.
And I'm a level with you.
Seven, eight hours of sleep each night, you should be fine.
Some people need more.
I'll be honest.
I've had nights where I go to sleep and I wake up after 14 hours of sleeping.
That's your body's way of saying, hey, I needed to recover a little extra.
And sometimes you will sleep past alarms straight up.
I remember in one of my old jobs where I had crazy long hours, I had to call in sick and It was an insane amount of hours that I wasn't getting of sleep where I was regularly getting four hours of sleep each day.
Like it was that bad.
So the thing that I learned about the past is that there was a time where people would sleep for four hours, wake up and go around and do stuff.
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