Cool! This is what I do. Go to bed around 10, sleep until about 2 or 3, wake up and do some reading, some freeping, and go back to bed for a few more hours. It helps that I don’t have to get up for work!
Somebody needs to stoke the fire in the middle of the night!
Geez, and I had nightmares about mufflers all night and woke up exhausted.
Get rid of blue light. It makes your brain think it’s time to Get Up & Go.
I was aware of this. In the past, people used to sleep about ten hours a night, with it being split in two. For the thirty minutes or 45 minutes it took them to go back to bed, it was a traditional prayer time for many people or reading time.
By these standards, at my age, I sleep three times each night — I get up twice to go to the bathroom.
I often wake up in the middle of the night for about an hour. Usually listen to am radio. The interesting thing is it always felt natural.
I actually did this when my kids were younger. I’d go to bed around the same time they did and I’d get up around 11pm and stay up until sometimes 2 or 3am. I used to treasure that quiet time when the kids were sleeping and I got to do whatever I wanted for a few hours.
I am one with my body. Especially my bladder. Especially my bladder after drinking beer. “Bill,” it sez to me, “gitcher sorry butt up if you don’t want me pee all over yer Scooby Doo sheets.” There is, to be sure, a feeling of cosmic relaxation and satisfaction afterward. Assuming I get all the way to the john. I think I should stop typing now.
I’m going to guess this was a valuable phenomenon in ancient days. SOMEBODY in the village would likely be naturally up and alert at any time of the night.
At least they’ll be awake for the pre-dawn SWAT raid.
The sleep apnea/CPAP mask hucksters are not going to like this story.
I make up for that change by sleeping twice during the day. Minimum.
Unexpected?
Any one heating with wood in an open fireplace can explain it to you. You get up to feed the fire in the middle of the night. It takes some time and attention to get the fire burning properly.
they waited until after the first sleep, when their energy was replenished, to make love. Their wives liked it more, too, he said. The first sleep let men 'do it better' and women 'have more enjoyment.' ...
..
Well, I'm convinced it's a good idea.
Better you don't.
The Old World sleep patterns (1st and 2nd sleep), must have been genetically passed down through the ages because I, along with my entire paternal family, have been affected all of our lives.
These days I'm working 12 hour shifts, having to get up sometimes at 02:30. So you can imagine what a messed up insomniac I am.
And here I thought I was just weird.
It happened to me on Molokai. We stayed at a resort on the island’s west end beach that had solar powered tentalos. The batteries only last 10 minutes after sunset so when the lights went out we fell into a natural sleeping pattern fast.
I always sleep about 2 or 3 times a night. Oh, wait, that’s because I have to get up to go to the bathroom.
Yeah, I’ve read about this too. It seem so strange to me that people would have been doing this when there was no electric lights. But maybe they just went to be so early in those days that they had to wake up for a bit.