"skin can sense whether it is day or night even when it's cultured by itself in a dish"....
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-skin-independent-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-skin-independent-brain.html
Skin keeps time independent of the brain...
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Lindasjackson
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That is very interesting! I think the way we have 12 hour cycles with the chams lights helps them sense day and night but it’s funny because I have Eustis’s lights go on at 7 am and off at 7 pm but as long as I’ve had him he always goes and finds his sleeping spot around 5 pm. Now that he has his ficus tree that’s very thick, he comes out in the morning to bask and then disappears into his tree around 1 pm and I don’t see him the rest of the day.
ERKleRose
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I think it'll really change things for people who have a blacked-out room and reverse light cycle (on through the night and off through the day)
Lindasjackson
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I worked nights almost my whole working career and when I retired, I had a lot of trouble sleeping at night and this went on for 15 years. I finally turned it around but every once in awhile I have trouble again sleeping at night.
