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What Happened During the Waking Hour? - Sleep Before the Industrial Revolution | Sleepy Facts About History
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Before the modern era, the night was often divided into distinct segments. People went to bed, slept for a few hours, woke for an interval known as "the watch," and then returned to bed for a second sleep. But how common was this practice, what did people do in the middle of the night, and why did this fragmented sleep pattern eventually disappear?
This episode examines the historical evidence for segmented sleep, drawing on diaries, medical texts, and court records from the medieval…
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