• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    that primary system figures out how to align its own “clock” by connecting to other parts of the brain like the nerve paths of the eyes.

    I’ve always wondered if blind people have offset rhythms for sleep.

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      6 hours ago

      It depends on which part of your eye is nonfunctional. It turns out there’s multiple redundancies for sensing light, so you could be blind but still be submitting signals to your circadian clock. If your eyes are completely nonfunctional, then yeah you’d have a pretty screwed up clock.