Submitted by ebb5 t3_y7s95g in askscience
Lung_doc t1_isxofv9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is our sleep pattern based off the length of the day? by ebb5
Although a bunch of studies found 25 hours or even much longer (median 25 hours), with a lot of variability from person to person, another later study suggested that early ones found so much variability due to residual light contamination and that the length was closer to 24.2 hours
Ensuring complete darkness for the duration of the study, they also found less variability from person to person.
There are also studies showing how much light is needed to change your circadian rhythm to a shorter or longer or different (think jet lag) cycle.
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