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Segmented Sleep
- lutusp 14y agoWinston Churchill is supposed to have possessed this sleep-wakefulness pattern. But the article might have mentioned the other variety of "bimodal sleep" -- the one in which one hemisphere falls asleep while the other stays awake. This pattern is seen in migratory birds and dolphins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep Never was the expression "I was half-asleep" more literal.