Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)
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HN comment orderThis is so fascinating. I slept (on my back) on the floor for a while. It was at times amazing—I would wake up and feel ready to go. Not like my muscles were weak or temporarily atrophied. Like, I didn’t know that was possible after a full nights sleep. There seems to be so much potential in just reflecting on an considering what a “paleo” approach to something would be. And then you can just do that. You don’t even…
"If you are a medical professional and have been trained in a “civilised” country you probably know next to nothing about the primate Homo sapiens and how they survive in the wild." But what is "wild"? Consider: https://books.google.com/books?id=LXmY3Q8qBngC&pg=PT74&lpg=P... "Homo heidelbergensis (700,000 to 150,000 years in Europe and 600,000 years in Africa)... were probably the builders of one of the oldest known types of constructed habitations found so far, at a site called Terra Amata in southern France…
The guy who wrote the paper is a blind physiotherapist, a google search leads to this documentary on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/108469655 (and that is why time spent trawling the new articles can pay off...)
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-19 | How “uncivilized” people groups sleep | chrisdotcode | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-08-20 | Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (2000)First breakout | rajnathani | 128 | 46 |
| 2024-03-17 | Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | alecst | 369 | 177 |