The eight-hour sleep myth? I tried our 'default' way and this is what I learnt

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Strong evidence suggests that, pre-industrial revolution, humans used to sleep in two blocks, with a short one-to-two-hour period of meditative wakefulness in between.

I’ve been interested in this way of sleeping for a while. I mean, surely what is most natural to us is most optimal, right? If I throw off my society-induced mono-sleep shackles and instead revert to the way of the ancients, well, who knows what I could accomplish? Da Vinci supposedly slept this way, and look how muchgot done. Hell, maybe I could finally get that damn Duolingo owl off my back.

Eventually, with the curry all but done, I leave it to simmer on low heat while I step outside, crack another beer, light a cigarette, and look at the sky. I am hoping to find inspiration, but all I feel is cold. So after 10 or so minutes, I go inside, turn off the stove, and go to bed. The curry was terrible, by the way. Too much salt.I wake up the next morning feeling decrepit.

It was time to call in an expert. Dr David Cunnington is a Melbourne-based specialist sleep physician and co-host of the“Some people naturally awaken four or five hours in, go to the bathroom, reset, go back to bed,” explains Dr Cunnington, “but if they’re not like that, and they force themselves to wake, they’ll be groggy, heavy headed, hard to get going. And if they were then to make themselves stay awake for one or two hours, they may then have trouble getting back to sleep.

And of course I then jump straight on social media as soon as I open my eyes. Throughout the week, all the “extra” time I have gained is being wasted on near constant monitoring of my news feed, searching like a vulture for any scraps of new COVID-19 information. And it isn't making me feel any better.Once again, I go to sleep at midnight, and awaken at 7am. For the first time in almost a week I feel adequately rested. But by now, I have already decided that biphasic sleep isn’t for me.

 

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