This isn't a wake up call. Instead we seek the purring sound of a hundred million snores. We are a group of Americans who seek to roll back the unnatural sleep cycle imposed on us by contemporary business and society. We must cast off the modernist straightjacket that stifles our bodies and our minds through its rigid time discipline. We have much to learn from other countries such as Spain which practice and value siestas, the midday break.

It's time for a second American Revolution--a cultural one, where we work to live, to facilitate our lives the way we want to live them, rather than living simply to work. Our battle cry is: Siestas Make Sense!

To quote a Wall Street Journal article (11/17/04):

"The main problem is that the mechanics of the human body don't mesh very well with a 9-to-5 work day. Researchers have found that when humans are fed at regular intervals and deprived of all sources of time, such as light and clocks, they have the greatest tendency to fall asleep during two periods of the day: between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. These are natural dips in our biological clocks, or circadian rhythms, and the core body temperature drops along with a person's eyelids."

"There's also increasing evidence that in the Middle Ages people napped all the time, [Sara] Mednick [a researcher at the Salk Institute] says. But the advent of timepieces, light bulbs and factories made naptime inconvenient for all but the crankiest toddlers. 'We're allowing society and pressures of modern age to prescribe our sleep and thought schedules,' she says."