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My Q and A With Roger Ekirch on the Way We Sleep, and How It's Changed Over the Centuries
Roger Ekirch is a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the author of At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. He is also a leading scholar on segmented sleep -- the idea that for much of history people slept into two separate chunks separated by a waking period, as opposed to a single span of sleep. In answer to my questions, he shared his insights on "normal" insomnia, how technological advances have changed the way we sleep, and why in many ways we're living in a golden age of sleep. 1) How was the waking time between the two sleeps spent? In myriad ways, from the spiritual to the profane, in addition to more mundane ta...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 24, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news