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I've heard about this before, that prior to ubiquitous artificial lighting, people slept in two blocks of time. What fascinates me is that we seem to have colle
by rootbear 11y ago
I've heard about this before, that prior to ubiquitous artificial lighting, people slept in two blocks of time. What fascinates me is that we seem to have collectively forgotten about it. Only now are researchers going back, as the article says, to old journals and stories, which often mention "second sleep". As someone who has trouble sleeping enough, I'm tempted to try this out some day.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoThat definitely happens with me any time that I'm not on a set schedule. I tend to go to sleep after the evening meal, wake up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night (which is productive coding time...), then go back to sleep until morning.
- digi_owl 11y agoI suspect that a lot of the stuff we take as "natural" these days where actually artificially introduced during the industrial revolution to help the factory owners get as much bang as possible out of the workforce. For example there was the enclosure movement in England that possibly lead many a former farmer to move to the city to get a job. This because they no longer had access to enough common grazing land and such.