[billysielu]

The sun should dictate when we sleep. Sunrise is nature's alarm clock. Sadly we've messed that up with electric lighting inside and outside.

[AndrewDucker]

Where I am, I'd be asleep 14 hours a day.

I don't think that is sustainable.

For a start I don't actually want to sleep that much. Nor do I think I could.

[darkwater]

That works for latitudes near the equator were the day duration is more or less constant. For higher/lower latitudes daylight changes vastly during the year. How do you cope with that?

[billysielu]

All the other critters manage just fine. People can too.

[darkwater]

Animals do it doesn't sound like a good reason to me. There is plenty of things humans do and animals don't and vice versa and it's perfectly fine.

[Turing_Machine]

The other critters, in general, evolved where they are found.

Humans live in all kinds of environments that are far removed from the East African Rift.

[vraid]

Lots of animals manage by either migrating to the tropics or hibernating through the winter. Neither is viable for a modern human society.

[Turing_Machine]

Where I live there are places where the sun doesn't go down for months in the summer and doesn't come up for months in the winter.