I, for awhile, had this natural pattern of sleeping for a few hours, waking for a little bit, then going back to sleep for a few hours.
When I started going pure carnivore for the first time (a few years ago), I noticed I would either sleep a straight 5-6 hours or I would get 3-4 hours of sleep, wake up for a little bit, then go back to bed for a couple hours before getting up for work. I thought it was because my body wasn’t comatose from garbage food and my body was working so efficiently that I didn’t need a full 8 hours to “cleanse”.
As I was doing the carnivore diet there was something about the sleep pattern that gave me the sense that there was something about *not* sleeping the prescribed 8 hours that felt right. I thought there was no way early humans could afford to sleep a straight 8 hours because that would leave them vulnerable to predators.
It was only this morning when I woke up at 2:30AM after 5 hours of sleep that I looked up sleeping in shifts.
Apparently (and so obviously) prior to the Industrial Revolution, Biphasic and Polyphasic sleeping was normal. People would just take naps during the day for an hour or two, if they didn’t go back to sleep after waking in the middle of the night for an 1-3 hours.
In fact; There are many historical accounts up into the early 1800’s of people referring to “first-sleep” and “second-sleep”.
And if you think about it, sleeping a straight 8+ hours is an extremely unique feature/bug to modern adult humans. Babies don’t do this and pre-elementary school (School kind of follows an Industrial Revolution schedule (at least in the US)) are always waking up sporadically and taking naps. I briefly read about remote tribes in South America and Africa getting much less sleep than 8 hours even without artificial light.
As “8 hours of sleep” is the mantra of PhD sleep “experts”, I’m inclined to think that this is some “ancient” knowledge that could be used to dunk on them. *dunk*
#PuraVida
#Dunk
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