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Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
Engineering Sleep
Advanced sleep engineering: sleeping and waking at will, 4 hours of sleep that feels like 8 hours, always in perfect mental & physical condition. Studying our most efficient sleepers will bring us one step closer to advanced sleep engineering
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With artificial light, we believe we defeat the sleep-wake cycle; with climate control, the seasonal cycle; with refrigeration, the agricultural cycle; and with high-tech medicine, the rest-recovery cycle. Triumphal linearism has shaped the very style of Western and (especially) American civilization. Before, when cyclical time reigned, people... See more
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
In At Day's Close, the historian A. Roger Ekirch argues that, before the industrial revolution, it was normal to divide the night into two periods of sleep: the 'first’, or 'dead', sleep, lasting from the evening until the early hours of the morning; and the 'second', or morning', sleep, which took the slumberer safely to daybreak. In between,
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