4 hours sleep, awake 1 hour, then back asleep for 3
After I quit any regular work in 1991 and I could then sleep exactly as I pleased, I found I slept this pattern (or something similar).
I wondered why not yer 8 hours straight "normal"?
So I researched it and turns out my new pattern is the standard one. When clinicians do sleep studies and put normal subjects in room with no daylight or clocks, sleeping in two shifts adding up to 8 hours or so is the norm (after some long sleeps to catch up typical sleep deficit most have).
Indeed, historians say that's way it used to be before industrial era. Back then, folks wouldn't ask you how you slept, but usually ask "How was your first sleep" (or "second sleep"). Olden days folks used to meet at fence around midnight after first sleep and visit for a bit, then go back to bed.
and take a nap in day
Sleep drug companies making fortune off folks who have this normal sleep pattern but think should have, or want (as our work patterns demands) 7-9 straight hours of sleep.
After I quit any regular work in 1991 and I could then sleep exactly as I pleased, I found I slept this pattern (or something similar).
I wondered why not yer 8 hours straight "normal"?
So I researched it and turns out my new pattern is the standard one. When clinicians do sleep studies and put normal subjects in room with no daylight or clocks, sleeping in two shifts adding up to 8 hours or so is the norm (after some long sleeps to catch up typical sleep deficit most have).
Indeed, historians say that's way it used to be before industrial era. Back then, folks wouldn't ask you how you slept, but usually ask "How was your first sleep" (or "second sleep"). Olden days folks used to meet at fence around midnight after first sleep and visit for a bit, then go back to bed.
and take a nap in day
Sleep drug companies making fortune off folks who have this normal sleep pattern but think should have, or want (as our work patterns demands) 7-9 straight hours of sleep.
