What if we valued the time we spent sleeping just as much as our waking hours? Imagine a world with sensible schedules, later school start times and no daylight savings? Picture too, hospitals that treat sleep and undisturbed nights as an essential part of recovery? How about well-designed biologically responsible, amber street lights instead of intensely bright, white LEDs which ruin restorative rest? What if sleep hygiene was rewarded, naps encouraged, exposure to sunshine prescribed, and medical treatment and lifestyle choices tailored to an individual’s chronotype? (Our chronotype determines when we’re most alert and energetic, and when we prefer to sleep. For example, a lark, an owl, or in between.)

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