Lycanthropy (Night Time Knowledge)

As many of you already know, sleep has always been a large issue of mine, which can be made note in evidence for that I am writing this at 4:17am on a Monday morning with lectures in 7 hours. However, it cannot be helped, because you see my friends - I have a giant confession to make.

I... I'm... I'm a werewolf. That is to say half man half wolf that only appears when the moon is full. Which makes it rather difficult to type with this gosh blasted claws...

Well, okay, as untrue as that may be I figured that rather than maintain the dull ache in my head from inability to sleep I'd maintain my, quite frankly, disgusting sleep hygiene by having a cup of tea and writing about nighttime myths and facts. You're so bloody welcome.

• Warm drinks in a mug, much like malted milk drinks are by far the best things to relax you for sleeping properly. It's suggested that this is less to do with the content and more the warmth of the mug at night time mimicking human warmth to give a relaxed frame of mind. (How cute)
• While technically Tea and Coffee would have this effect, it doesn't take a genius to know the caffeine will counter balance the quite frankly placebo effect.
• Milk will be able to do the job, but dairy products take longer through your digestive system and so can keep you awake longer by your body unable to sleep. *shrug* Sleep hygiene is a bitch.

•  Werewolves and Lycanthrope are not necessarily the same thing. While being a werewolf can be considered a form of lycanthropy, it is usually limited to being turned into a werewolf only on a full moon whereas Lycanthrope are considered to be able to control the transformation.
• Though in hindsight, this might only be in part of a fantasy book I've read. I might do a little more research on this.

• It is suggested that the natural sleep / wake cycle is 25 hours long instead of 24 (No wonder everything is fucked.) This is probably because it used to be even longer as a form of protection to keep our energy and be as still as possible after we've fed. 
• That can only suggest that if left to it's own devices, humans would only need very little sleep as it no longer has most of the benefits it has to other animals.

• Much like reproduction, lots of different animals sleep in different ways. Dolphins sleep using only one hemisphere of the brain at a time so they they are always partially awake. Ants are thought to sleep little and often. Many deep sea creatures form of sleeping is just to shut down desires or motivation as their reaction functions are automatic so they lie perfectly still in a form of sleep ready to wake when they're triggered.

And there you have it, all the night time knowledge I could be bothered to think of in this session.

*Shrug* Kept me busy.

Ciao for now!