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[–] 8 pts

8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is a myth. I used to think I was an insomniac because I would wake up in the middle of the night. Until I accepted it as normal, refused to get angry about it. I’ve been sleeping peacefully ever since.

[–] 7 pts

I usually sleep in three shifts, not two. It's more natural for me.

[–] 1 pt

At this point: just like facial features and body-shape, I have the inkling that sleeping-patterns are no-different— as in, they're all different. Fighting our natural sleeping patterns is what makes us cranky. You just gotta learn to work around it. Personally, I simply need to take a nap as soon as I get home from work. Then I'm good 'till the wee hours of the morning. Have a good six-to-seven-hour sleep, and go to work.

[–] 0 pt

When I was doing meth I used to sleep twice a week

[–] 6 pts

Only time I sleep more than 4-6hrs is when I'm sick. My husband dutifully writes down his sleep times. I never worry about it. This is just the medical community 8 hrs of sleep, 8 glasses of water.....

[–] 0 pt

Glad to hear you say that, I'm exactly the same way. Six hours, rare, is 'heaven.' But I can function on five.

No choice, no matter how I try.

[–] 1 pt

I can sleep for 9 hours on occasion that anyone lets me.

[–] 0 pt (edited )

You likely wake because of cortisone which neutralizes the sleep hormone melatonin.

Most common cause of this is eating or drinking carbs in the evening.

In short your diet makes you need to eat every few hours

Last meal at six pm.. No more drinks either

Take melatonin Take high dose vit d3

Try that out

[–] 0 pt

In a good bed I can sleep 8-9 hours, like 5 star hotel type stuff.

In my fucking home bed I always wake up halfway.

[–] 4 pts

I think the french and spaniards still do the mid day nap

[–] 3 pts

Short nap is the best nap. I’ll take one mid afternoon no more than 20 minutes. Refreshing, anything longer and my day is ruined, groggy the rest of the day.

[–] 2 pts

When I do naps, I'm a "22 minute exactly" person.

[–] 2 pts

What's a nap? I'll ask my wife, she's a professional sleeper, napper, and relaxer.

[–] 1 pt

This is why women tend out outlive their husbands, frankly.

[–] [deleted] 4 pts

Candles and artificial lights used to be expensive. When it got dark you couldn't work without light. Naturally you fell asleep. But what happens when the night lasts longer than the 8 or 9 hours that we need for sleep? You either wake up while it's still dark, or you take a break from sleep in the middle of the night. Your body has a memory not just when you went to sleep, but somehow of your whole sleeping cycle. Once you start waking up in the middle of the night for a few hours, that becomes your need sleep schedule.

[–] 2 pts

People used lanterns. Cows got to be milked and looked after during birth.

[–] 3 pts

I have to assume someone needed to put wood on the fire midway through the night to keep everyone warm and safe. Eliminate that need, and why would you sleep in two shifts?

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[–] 1 pt

Fire is only a recent invention globally speaking, we existed for thousands of years without it.

[–] 3 pts (edited )

Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the "microscopic traces of wood ash" as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning roughly 1 million years ago, has wide scholarly support, and that is long enough for humans to adapt imho.

[–] 0 pt

Oh you and your facts, doh…

[–] 0 pt

Did african niggers use fire before White people arrived on the continent? If so, then I guess it's a pretty safe bet to assume that homo erectus did as well, since they're basically the same species.

[–] 0 pt

We came from apes?

[–] 2 pts

My friend from the phillipines does this. He says they all do.

[–] 2 pts

Sleeping is temporary, awakening is eternal.

[–] 1 pt

Seems to me they were just describing waking up to care for children in the middle of the night, who would have been ubiquitous since no one was on birth control

I can see how an academic with zero family or exposure to children might regard this sleeping pattern as some sort of revelation, however.

Sounds dreadful

[–] 8 pts (edited )

It is until you stop worrying about it. Your child wakes up crying in the middle of the night, get up, tend to them, go back to sleep. Dog is anxious and wants to go outside, get up tend to them, go back to sleep. Once I realized this and stopped getting angry my quality of life went up! Kids happy, dog is happy, I’m happy (and well rested!)

Edit to add: the only time this wasn’t true was when the drill sergeant threw a trash can in to the barracks and starting screaming nonsense like: “drop your cocks and grab your socks” now that was interrupted sleep and I still hate him to this day.

[–] 1 pt

screaming nonsense like: “drop your cocks

it's not nonsense, if it was really occurring

[–] 0 pt

I couldn't nap if my life depended on it, and can't sleep much at all. I'm wired really tight.

Does anyone care?

Will anyone give me money for this?

[–] 1 pt

Sleep studies I'm sure. I don't need much sleep either, but ye are a bit older than I

[–] 0 pt

But I am pretty wise am I right?

[–] 1 pt

I concur

[–] 0 pt

So basically, a nap. The evidence presented in this article is weak.

[–] 0 pt

The habit of a short sleep in the middle of hot days is similar and widespread.. viva la siesta.

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