{"id":2887,"date":"2012-03-03T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:11:33","slug":"a-truly-normal-sleep-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-truly-normal-sleep-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"A Truly Normal Sleep Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030212_0731_ATrulyNorma1.png\" \/>v<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Hegarty at the BBC reports on a growing body of research that suggests an eight hour block of unbroken sleep is abnormal and counter to natural human behaviour. Some of the things she found include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evidence suggests that the natural human sleeping pattern is an eight hour sleep phase broken up into two parts by a period of wakefulness that lasts for up to two hours in between periods of sleep.<\/li>\n<li>Before the 1500s the phrases &#8220;first sleep&#8221; and &#8220;second sleep&#8221; were part of the common lexicon suggesting that it was once the norm for people to sleep in two distinct phases.<\/li>\n<li>In this two hour period of wakefulness people were moderately active, using the time to read, write, smoke, talk, pray and have sex.<\/li>\n<li>There are several theories as to why this changed. Most of them involve the increasing popularity of using the night for &#8216;productive&#8217; purposes, meaning that staying awake doing &#8216;nothing&#8217; was considered a waste of time. The rise of street lights, all-night coffee shops, and legitimate night-time activities made staying up at night \u2013 and thus compressing your sleep schedule into one monolithic block \u2013 fashionable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about other practices that individuals engaged in after first sleep, expanded theories into why this all changed, and the implications this has for how we handle our sleep click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16964783\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16964783\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Austin Frakt<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/sleeping-eight-hours-is-not-natural\/\"><em>The Incidental Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>v Stephanie Hegarty at the BBC reports on a growing body of research that suggests an eight hour block of unbroken sleep is abnormal and counter to natural human behaviour. Some of the things she found include: Evidence suggests that the natural human sleeping pattern is an eight hour sleep phase broken up into two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030212_0731_ATrulyNorma1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}