Sunday, December 27, 2020
When not disrupted
Via ScienceAlert, a good description of the natural split sleep pattern:
While nighttime awakenings are distressing for most sufferers, there is some evidence from our recent past that suggests this period of wakefulness occurring between two separate sleep periods was the norm. Anthropologists have found evidence that during preindustrial Europe, bi-modal sleeping was considered the norm. Sleep onset was determined not by a set bedtime, but by whether there were things to do. ... Households retired a couple of hours after dusk, woke a few hours later for one to two hours, and then had a second sleep until dawn. During this waking period, people would relax, ponder their dreams, or have sex. Some would engage in activities like sewing, chopping wood, or reading, relying on the light of the moon or oil lamp.After I switched from Young People's Time to Old People's Time in 2010, I quickly and naturally fell into this split pattern. The segments settled out exactly as described. When not disrupted: First segment 6PM to 10:30PM. Coffee, eat, do chores and graphics work. Second segment 1 AM to 4:30 AM. Eat again, then do outside stuff requiring daylight. Store, walk, shovel snow, mow yard, etc. This year's holocaust has disrupted the pattern fairly often. Some nights the dread and horror of anticipating Mad Bomber Inslee's next killing frenzy make the 1st segment impossible, so I just rest the body for an hour. Then the 2nd segment comes more easily. Awake and creating is better than fake "asleep" and dreading.
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