ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that each subject do not have so much control over sleep that it can aptly be characterized as a personal choice; and that normative implications related to public health and sleep hygiene do not necessarily follow from current findings. It should true of any empirical study that normative implications do not necessarily follow, but people think that many public health sleep recommendations falsely infer these implications from a flawed explanatory account of the decision to sleep. However relate to explanatory accounts, or views, of what is happening in such models. It discusses what will call the choice view' of sleep, which proposes that one can choose to sleep; versus the autonomy view' of sleep, which proposes that sleep tracks autonomy. While the descriptive linear model of sleep does lend itself to the explanatory choice view, the descriptive curvilinear model of sleep challenges the choice view. The results of the curvilinear model can explain by the autonomy view.
