Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You - SlumberWise
►http://slumberwise.com/science/your-ancestors-didnt-sleep-like-you
Ok, maybe your grandparents probably slept like you. And your great, great-grandparents. But once you go back before the 1800s, sleep starts to look a lot different. Your ancestors slept in a way that modern sleepers would find bizarre – they slept twice. And so can you.
Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You - SlumberWise
►http://slumberwise.com/science/your-ancestors-didnt-sleep-like-you
An English doctor wrote, for example, that the ideal time for study and contemplation was between “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Chaucer tells of a character in the Canterbury Tales that goes to bed following her “firste sleep.” And, explaining the reason why working class conceived more children, a doctor from the 1500s reported that they typically had sex after their first sleep.