The myth of the eight-hour sleep

How many times have you drifted off to sleep easily then woken up at 2am wide awake.  Then you lie there annoyed at yourself because you’re not going to get you eight hours sleep.

I saw this interesting article on the BBC website which says “A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.”  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Research has found that in the past people had two sleeps and would often talk to each other between these sleeps.  By the 1920s the idea of a first and second sleep had receded entirely from our social consciousness.

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