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WE USED TO SLEEP TWICE EACH NIGHT
delanceyplace.com ^ | 6/30/15 | David K. Randall

Posted on 07/01/2015 3:29:41 PM PDT by dontreadthis

For most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives. Then came the lightbulb. This unexpected "two sleep" phenomenon was uncovered by historian Roger Ekirch when he began to do research for a history of the night:

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: health; science; sleep
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To: dontreadthis
I never knew this

Better you don't.

The Old World sleep patterns (1st and 2nd sleep), must have been genetically passed down through the ages because I, along with my entire paternal family, have been affected all of our lives.

These days I'm working 12 hour shifts, having to get up sometimes at 02:30. So you can imagine what a messed up insomniac I am.

41 posted on 07/01/2015 5:02:02 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: Tax-chick

LOLz.


42 posted on 07/01/2015 5:05:32 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.-)
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To: colorado tanker

I think his voice was dubbed in. South Pacific is one of my favs.


43 posted on 07/01/2015 5:08:06 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.-)
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To: Stosh
"I make up for that change by sleeping twice during the day. Minimum."

Ahh...a kindred spirit.

I get up at 6 AM and send Mom on her way (I'm retired, she's not).

Do my computer loop, take a shower about 9, nap for an hour, do the tasks on my list, take another 1 hour nap at 3 PM.

I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed when she gets home at 5.

44 posted on 07/01/2015 5:19:04 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (Enter something.)
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To: Billthedrill
t sez to me, “gitcher sorry butt up if you don’t want me pee all over yer Scooby Doo sheets.”

You got Scooby Doo sheets too???!?

45 posted on 07/01/2015 5:27:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s when you stop getting up to go that it becomes a problem.


46 posted on 07/01/2015 5:27:59 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: dontreadthis

And here I thought I was just weird.


47 posted on 07/01/2015 5:32:20 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: dontreadthis

It happened to me on Molokai. We stayed at a resort on the island’s west end beach that had solar powered tentalos. The batteries only last 10 minutes after sunset so when the lights went out we fell into a natural sleeping pattern fast.


48 posted on 07/01/2015 5:32:35 PM PDT by WMarshal (“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge" - F. Douglas)
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To: dontreadthis

I always sleep about 2 or 3 times a night. Oh, wait, that’s because I have to get up to go to the bathroom.


49 posted on 07/01/2015 5:39:43 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: JudyinCanada

Me too.....except I DO have to get up for work. :)


50 posted on 07/01/2015 5:43:41 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: dontreadthis

Yeah, I’ve read about this too. It seem so strange to me that people would have been doing this when there was no electric lights. But maybe they just went to be so early in those days that they had to wake up for a bit.


51 posted on 07/01/2015 6:07:15 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: dontreadthis

About 3:00 AM I have to listen to mellow classical music then drift back off.


53 posted on 07/01/2015 7:11:54 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: umgud

LOL!


54 posted on 07/01/2015 7:17:08 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Tax-chick

:-)

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55 posted on 07/01/2015 7:20:01 PM PDT by Mears
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To: JudyinCanada

You’ve pretty much described my pattern. Up until I was about thirty I slept in one continuous block, but nowadays I usually wake up with some work related problem on my mind at around 2am. I’ll think about it for awhile, usually coming to some sort of resolution, then I’ll sleep again until five or six. I almost never sleep all the way through the night anymore.


56 posted on 07/01/2015 7:32:52 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: JudyinCanada

Cool! This is what I do. Go to bed around 10, sleep until about 2 or 3, wake up and do some reading, some freeping, and go back to bed for a few more hours. It helps that I don’t have to get up for work

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Very similar to my schedule. I don’t have to get up to go to work either. I sometimes nap in the afternoon too. However, my son tells me that any sleep which lasts for three hours or more, can’t legitimately be called a “nap”.


57 posted on 07/01/2015 7:55:16 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: dontreadthis

Ping


58 posted on 07/01/2015 9:12:06 PM PDT by Clump (Bestowing dignity on sodomy is like bestowing fragrance on a turd.)
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To: dontreadthis

I actualy do sleep like this.


59 posted on 07/01/2015 9:56:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dontreadthis

because I can’t be sleepin, here I am freepin. Good article btw. Maybe I need to count sheep, delicious tasty roast sheep...


60 posted on 07/01/2015 11:45:27 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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