At 08:28 PM 6/6/01 -0500, liz butek wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>The following paragraphs are from a fellow list member on another
>email list that I am on. He was wondering if there are references
>on if a person's sleep needs change with the seasons. I did check
>in the archives for the list (I typed in winter sleep as my search)
>and didn't really find any references, but I did find people suggesting
>the book, "Lights Out" (I think that is what it's called?) Any
>help/insights/knowledge would be most appreciated! I asked the gentleman

No studies to cite, but from things I've read about SAD (or is that SADD?),
I personally suspect there's a greater correlation between amount of sleep
and darkness-related depression during the winter.  Hibernation doesn't
appear to be a function of evolutionary inferiority or superiority, rather
an adaptation to a particular set of environmental variables, so I don't
think being more "highly evolved", whatever that *really* means, has
anything to do with it...

But that's just my take.  My personal sleeping needs seem to be more
weather related than seasonal!

Dianne