[REFLECTION] Why automatic clock time broke the language of sleep

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Before mechanical clocks, “sleep” meant following sun, weather, meal… not numbers. Once hours got universal, “bedtime” switched from event-driven to clock-driven — a shift in how people talked about tiredness, rest, and waking. Suddenly, children went to bed at 8 “because it’s 8,” not because the world was done for the day. But tiredness rarely matches digits. This is a language confusion: substituting a mechanical marker for embodied experience. When sleep gets scheduled by the clock, do we really know what “sleep” means in conversation anymore? Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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