The Ripple Effect

What controls the sleep-wake cycle?

The role of the retina, supraoptic chiasma, hypothalamus and other neural pathways in sleep-wake cycle, in circadian rhythm…

If influenced by light and dark patterns, what then are the biochemical processes underlying stimulation of neural cells? how does light differ from dark? what are the patterns that enable the human body system to detect changes in light and dark patterns. 

Say the light stimulus comes entirely from the sun and the dark stimulus comes entirely from the unavailability of the sun due to earth’s course around the sun. How then can the heavenly bodies possibly affect chemicals in the human organism.. From UV rays of Sun or moon, levels of UV rays, does UV rays reflecting from the sun to the moon contain different chemical structures or forces from that of the direct rays of the sun or is the light entirely similar. (I guess not because the light of the sun will have to reach and penetrate the substance of the moon, exchange or collide with atoms and molecules present in the moon before bouncing back with full force and some of the light rays reach the earth’s surface after passing through various levels of the atmosphere { and therefore exposure to different types of atoms and molecules; however we must take into account the speed of light and how it passess through space and bounces of objects, and how it is absorbed or reflected by the human skin }.

There is much to investigate and so we must start the process and aim for understanding. 

May the Great Divine Bless us with Wisdom. 

And it harm none so mote it be

HAHA. And the butterflies in my brain went wild without even knowing when to appropriately create flutters. Anyhow, the circadian rhythm is highly controlled by the sleep-wake cycle of the body, not the light-dark patterns of the earth. Goes to show, you should rein in the horses before they go too far and get lost in the wrong way.

Blessed be!