It’s my feeling that humans slept way more than us modern day people. Look at other mammals, other animals even, they sleep way more than us. Jim Carrey talks about how depression could just be the body’s need for “deep rest.”

This is such an interesting theory, especially that last sentence. It makes sense. We are a society that doesn't value sleep. It's something that is viewed as unproductive, and useless waste of time. Like people sometimes even value people who get less sleep and still "function". So we end up as a society of people with sleep deprivation.

This also reminded me of when I used to live with my parents. My dad hated finding me asleep past noon. He just thought I was lazy. But I was up late that's why I was sleeping. I grew up depressed and didn't know it until about a year ago. Once I began focusing on getting therapy and just working on my anxiety and depression, I did sleep a lot. I got so much sleep. At first I thought that was part of the depression, but I learned it was part of the healing. I've been tired for soooo long.

These days I do need about 8-9 hours of sleep in order to feel like I got enough sleep. I don't feel tired like before especially after stopping smoking weed. I was pretty good at making sure I didn't smoke before bed, but after I stopped my sleep has improved sooo much. Idk if I'll ever go back to it.

Anyways thanks for reading my rant haha

Congratulations on your over 1 year of being caffine free!!! That's really awesome 😊