This is how the world sleeps

New York –the city that never sleeps.
Indeed, New Yorkers don’t get a lot of sleep. However, this is not so much due to the extensive nightlife but rather due to the bright lights illuminating streets and billboards, which then find their way into the city’s bedrooms and disturb people’s sleep. And yet every other person in NYC is already in bed by 11pm. Americans work a lot. A 50-hour workweek is the norm. And many New Yorkers put a lot of emphasis on fitness and sports, often getting up for exercise as early as 5 am. The young generation attends morning raves and dances with soft drinks in hand into the morning hours, only to proceed to university or the office, wide-awake. But the hectic and stressful work life in the United States comes at a price: The U.S. has one of the highest rates of sleeping pill consumption in the world. Many get sick due to a permanently disturbed day-night rhythm.