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https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evenings-empire/9CB4189...
How we turned night into day. And basically a story how technology really went hand in hand with a social revolution.
I tried this for a few weeks in college and it was a pretty neat experience. I slept first from 9-12 and then 3-7/8. Those three hours between 12 and 3 ended up being super productive - I was very energized and had creative ideas about whatever I was doing. I had to stop because going to bed at 9 in college was like kissing your social life goodbye, but even these days if I naturally wake up in the middle of the nigh…
Ironically I am between my sleeps now. I’ve been casual about life for so long that I’ve fallen into medieval sleeping habits.
I’ll do some work and be back asleep by 2 or 3.
My kids will be up at 6:30 and it’s all good with me.
When my kids get older, my sleep patterns will change again I’m sure, as they did when we entered into parenthood.
Fighting for sleep feels like an argument with reality, my kids are young and up periodically throughout the night.
c’est la vie
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Null hypothesis: early humans slept much like today's humans [...] That's a terrible null hypothesis, as there is no reproducible, controllable test for it, other than a time machine. A better one might be "people exposed to pre-industrial revolution photoperiods ( This was empirically tested with a small N ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992... ). At least it's testable.
A much better study: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
I tried this for a few weeks in college and it was a pretty neat experience. I slept first from 9-12 and then 3-7/8. Those three hours between 12 and 3 ended up being super productive - I was very energized and had creative ideas about whatever I was doing. I had to stop because going to bed at 9 in college was like kissing your social life goodbye, but even these days if I naturally wake up in the middle of the nigh…
Were you able to fall back asleep at 3? Some of my most productive hours are later at night, but then even when I'm tired and decide to go to bed, my mind keeps running.
I tried this for a few weeks in college and it was a pretty neat experience. I slept first from 9-12 and then 3-7/8. Those three hours between 12 and 3 ended up being super productive - I was very energized and had creative ideas about whatever I was doing. I had to stop because going to bed at 9 in college was like kissing your social life goodbye, but even these days if I naturally wake up in the middle of the nigh…
Same for me, I tried that for almost a year and the night hours were super productive and enjoyable no matter which activity I do.
The article does not mention it, but mothers with small children have to nurse babies every couple of hours, even at night. So given that in middle ages, families had "copious numbers of children" (quote from the article), it is for sure that mothers would need to get up to feed a baby. And then possibly the whole family would woke up too. And if multiple generations were living in the same house, then even more prob…
I tried this for a few weeks in college and it was a pretty neat experience. I slept first from 9-12 and then 3-7/8. Those three hours between 12 and 3 ended up being super productive - I was very energized and had creative ideas about whatever I was doing. I had to stop because going to bed at 9 in college was like kissing your social life goodbye, but even these days if I naturally wake up in the middle of the nigh…
Oh, so, 21-24 and 3-7/8. Took me a while.