20, first, Century Man

Usually around 3-5 I get very sleepy. If give the opportunity I'll sleep for a few hours and get back up about 6 or 7 or thereabouts and function until sleep overwhelms me about midnight or one.

Apparently its the way it used to be.

Seems we used to sleep in two shifts, first sleep and second sleep. First sleep was in the early hours of the evening, then up for a few hours for reading, prayer, sex, visiting, what have you, then back to sleep until morning. The practices died out when electric lights hit the streets and the homes in the mid-18th century.

So I am a 20 . . .  first century man!

Very cool article.