[blam]

(ahem) I sometimes sleep three times a day.

[Kirkwood]

And thus was created the midnight snack.

[aynrandfreak]

Yet the old ways didn’t seem to do too much for their longevity

[Mastador1]

Lately I’m lucky if I’m awake three times a day, having my eyes open doesn’t count.

[goldstategop]

I take an afternoon siesta and then I sleep part of the night and then again in the early morning.

[Bullish]

Obama’s slept his whole presidency away.

[Califreak]

I very often wake up evry hour on the hour all damn night even if I have to take pain killer or sleep aids

I think it might be some kind of PTSD because I wake up screaming or crying a lot

[lee martell]

This has become my natural way of sleeping as an adult. I very rarely sleep for more than six hours straight without waking up, and not just for bathroom obligations. I’ll often wake up around 3.30 or 4am, then, if i have time, I will go back to sleep for a final ‘dream cruise’ until 6.30 pr 7am.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I have a sleep disorder. I’ve been awake since noon yesterday. I can be asleep and completely conscious at the same time. Unpleasant.

[BradyLS]

Not sure how it’s done these days, but the British Navy during the Age of Sail routinely slept and worked in alternating watches lasting four hours each as the prevailing conditions allowed.

Except for the dog-watches from 4-6pm and 6–8 pm. So called because they were...”cur”-tailed! (Arf!) ;-)

[Olog-hai]

So candlelight, firelight, gas light and oil light were not “artificial” according to this op/ed that seems to omit them?

[WMarshal]

15 years ago I spent a week at a solar powered resort on the west end of Moloka’i in something called a tentalo and I fell into the exact same sleep pattern. When you don’t have anything to distract you after sunset (the sucky, sar1powered batteries only aster 15 minutes past sunset) you fall asleep quick. When me and the missus woke up in the early AM sex was a natural outcome.

Usually I have nothing nice to say about the primitive lifestyle as practiced by hippies, but that was nice!

[jocon307]

I don’t know, supposedly there’s a lot of evidence for this being the habit, and my big lib friend on facebook says his wife has always done this, but it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

People waking up in the dark of night and puttering about, MAYBE it was because they went to bed to early (no light, etc.) but it still seems strange.

[GOP Poet]

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[crabpott]

Ambin+shot Grey Goose=8hrs.

[Teflonic]

26 hour days would be ideal. I once had a few months of inactivity to test sleep theory and found that if I stayed up until I fell asleep naturally then slept as late as I wanted I fell into a 26 hour schedule. Makes me wonder to this day whether humans are native to this planet as I was better rested and more alert during that period.

[Squantos]

Morning nap ... 30 minutes

Afternoon nap ... 30 minutes

Evening nap ... 30 minutes

Oh dark thirty mega nap ... 7.5 hours or so

Just avoiding the long dirt nap ....:o)

[ApplegateRanch]

I cut out the middleman, and go to bed around 3 or 4 A.M., and sleep 6-7 hours.

[doorgunner69]

This article (other than the sex and reading) is pretty much my typical night. Read until 10:00, sleep until 0100-0200, take care of business, and go back to sleep (hopefully) until 0600.

Cannot recall when the last time was I slept through the whole night not drunk or otherwise out of sorts.

It is that 0400 wake up and no more sleep that kills me.

[edpc]

This was the first sleep that kept popping up in the old tales. Once a person woke up, he or she would stay that way for an hour or so before going back to sleep until morning—the so-called second sleep. The time between the two bouts of sleep was a natural and expected part of the night and, depending on your needs, was spent praying, reading, contemplating your dreams, urinating, or having sex.

An hour of urinating? That's some bladder.

[kalee]

Bump interesting