Why Sleep Just Once a Day When Two Feels So Right?

Is it possible that we’ve completely rewritten our understanding of how people have always lived? Sure it is!

In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.

His book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern — in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria.

TWO SLEEP SHIFTS A DAY! So I’m accidentally doing it right!