{"id":184,"date":"2008-07-27T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-07-28T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:35:30","slug":"sleep-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/sleep-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article last week about sleep myths &#8212; mainly how our conceptions of our need for sleep are slightly off-base.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of the article (I found) talks about the myth that humans need eight continuous hours of sleep a night.\u00a0 This is not necessarily the case.\u00a0 In fact, the author notes that until the Industrial Revolution, Western Europeans actually divided the night into two periods of &#8220;First Sleep&#8221; and &#8220;Second Sleep.&#8221;\u00a0 The article notes that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;d go to bed soon after dark, sleep for four hours then wake for an hour or two during which they&#8217;d write, pray, smoke, reflect on dreams they&#8217;d had, have sex or even visit neighbors. In fact, there&#8217;s some evidence to suggest that this sleep pattern may\u00a0be the one most in tune with our inherent circadian rhythms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wild huh?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/146794\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article last week about sleep myths &#8212; mainly how our conceptions of our need for sleep are slightly off-base. The most interesting part of the article (I found) talks about the myth that humans need eight continuous hours of sleep a night.\u00a0 This is not necessarily the case.\u00a0 In fact, the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[103,102],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-science","tag-sleep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}