The Case For Human Hibernation

This is just a quick hub of my thoughts on this hibernation and human sleeping topic.

Do you seem to want to sleep more in the winter months thqn in the warmer months? Is the condition known as SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) just another term for human hibernation? Should we all just listen to our inner clocks or drug ourselves to death trying to ignore it? What do you think?

Animals that hibernate start to do some things in preparation for the long winter nap as us humans cal it. They build up their fat stores. They will eat and eat and eat so that they can prepare for the months that they spend sleeping instead of using it s energy. Do we as humans do this?

I think that we do. Oh the medical and scientific genre call it obesity and they also are the ones that tend to want to promote drugs instead of our own natural systems and clocks.

I live out in the woods and have had the opportunity to watch and take notice of animals and what nature does. I call it nature because these animals that do put on a fat store do not go and eat like crazy. It just happens. It's their natural clock. I notice this with my outdoor cats. In the fall they begin to get fatter, but they don't eat anymore than what I give them. During the winter they are really very fat and they sleep most of the time. Oh, they don't actually hibernate as in sleep all winter. They are active in the snow and cold. It seems to be that when they lay out in the winter sun they are actually soaking up vitamins and energy and heat. I have one cat that enjoys jut sleeping in a box and I wonder why he doesn't freeze to death--literally.

Raccoons semi-hibernate too. They don't like to come out in the snow, but if it is a warm evening or they are very hungry I will see them come up to my deck and eat the cat's food that they have left in the dishes.

Opposums will do almost the same thing but I rarely see one out in the coldest of winter months.

Bears will sleep through the winter months. I have never seen a bear here and don't really want to.

Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD for short affects many humans. If you pay attention to the symptoms and watch humans during the year you will notice one certain thing--when there is less daylight people want to sleep more. Notice how we eat more prior to and during those shorter days. It is much like the semi hibernating animals. We have the same time clock as they do because we are animals ourselves. It is of my opinion that we have drugged ourselves and changed our cycles up so much that we will never get it back to normal. We have taken everything that is cyclical and distorted it.

I think we should listen to our own time clocks and do as and be back in Natures Cycle. I think a lot of the problems that we face today would be lowered such as rage, crimes, and materialism. Sleep is a very important thing. Pardon me while I listen to my time clock and go back to bed.