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Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/askscience

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I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine.

I don't know if my question is clear enough but I hope so.

Bonus question: are animals subject to the same contribution of light or lack of it to the quality of sleep?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, we played paintball even, but stopped because one guy ran straight off like a 6 foot mini cliff. A couple of us were chasing him and he just disappeared. Was freaky as shit like that scene from LotRs.

Lol, yup, that sounds right. I did that once, although it was only like 3 or 4 feet, and I didn't like it one bit. Is was a sinkhole or something too, because it was cliff all around, and I had to find a spot to climb out. I didn't visit that area again.

I forget where I heard about the sailing thing now. That would be a 1 on the Bortle dark sky scale, though.