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It's thought to be a more natural sleep pattern, and us westerners have beaten it out of ourselves: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 http://www.bbc.
by louthy 13y ago
It's thought to be a more natural sleep pattern, and us westerners have beaten it out of ourselves:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
"His book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern - in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer's Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria. "
- mgr86 13y agoI was not aware of this book. Sounds fascinating. One of my favorite articles I've ever read was in an anthropological course that detailed some of these same findings cross culturally. The title of the article is "Slumbers Unexplored Landscape" I'd link to it but what I've found is I believe behind a paywall. I'm employed at a university so sometimes I don't notice paywalls.