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Ваша оценкаFrom the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more
'Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate... Leader points the way to a richer and more humane understanding of our problems with sleep' Guardian
One in four adults sleeps badly.
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bubnoovi14 марта 2024 г.Staying alive is today seen as a personal choice, a duty we must continually work at, so that existing is now just as much a task or product of our efficiency as work used to be. ‘You must be as productive as possible’ and ‘You must stay alive as long as possible’ increasingly mean one and the same thing.
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If the time allotted to sleep was to become more and more fixed from the early nineteenth century, so was the very form of sleep itself. In an influential series of articles, and a book, At Day’s Close, the historian Roger Ekirch has argued that the basic form of human sleep prior to this period was biphasic. Rather than one single consolidated block, humans had a first and then a second sleep. Retiring around 9 or 10 p.m., they would sleep till midnight or 1 a.m., then rise for an hour or two – in a period known as ‘watching’, which meant less ‘looking’ than ‘being awake’ – before returning to their ‘second sleep’ till morning. Although the times for starting the first and second sleeps would shift historically and geographically, the biphasic pattern was more or less constant.
07 - bubnoovi14 марта 2024 г.
Consolidated sleep, it appeared, was a product of the Industrial Revolution, and biphasic sleep the original rhythm of the human body.
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