Asleep Awake Asleep

last sunday i was confronted with the possibility that 8 consecutive hours of sleep isn’t a natural pattern, it’s something we started doing after the 17th century. according to a 16 year sleep study, the natural body rhythm sleeps four hours, wakes up for an hour or two, and then goes back to sleep. researchers even found a ton of literature that recorded people sleeping this way in the pre-industrial age. i’ve tried it a couple of times now, and i think it’s working.