From World War I onward, saving energy by using daylight instead of artificial light for more of our waking hours has been one the main justifications.
The research community in supportive play is so resounding, I would expect to see children in nearly every household, every preschool and kindergarten classroom playing for most of their waking hours.
We definitely do a lot of cellular repair, protein synthesis, and general biological upkeep while we're in dreamland, but it's not like we don't do that stuff when we're awake too.
As Arikia Millikan, an American blogger, once put it, “If I could be jacked in at every waking hour of the day, I would, and I think a lot of my peers would do the same.”
" Adults spend the majority of their waking hours at work and so it's not surprising to me that people can come to equate what they do with who they are, " says Laura Giurge.