Captain's Readings

We have been learning about the history of, especially sleep before electricity and sleep since caffeine. In Schmidt's Caffeine and the Coming of the Enlightenment, we see a progressive war on sleep as caffeine comes to a rise to make people more productive and forget about the value of sleep. Ever since the enlightenment, people have looked at sleep as being lazy and being unproductive, when in reality sleep is essential to our health and productivity during the day. Since the rise of caffeine, people have seen that sleep can be cut short by being more productive and doing more with burst of energy that comes from caffeine. It is crazy how us as a society have lost the value of a wonderful and natural gift that God has given us, and that it is essential for our well being. 

- Kirk out