Dr. Sue McCurry
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first heard Jul 2026
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Thank you so very much, Chris and Emma.
I'm surprised and delighted to be here.
Well, in thinking about that, I I suppose the the one message I would give to our listeners is that the big mistake people make about sleep is they expect sleep is something that I should be able to do
whenever and wherever I want and for as long as I want that it's under my control.
And the reality is it is not under your control.
And we need to shift people to the perspective there are things that I can do
uh to promote and support good quality sleep.
And those are the practices that we want people to establish.
Well, it's pretty interesting.
I I sent ahead to you all a very fun interactive link from Harvard that goes through the history of human sleep.
all the way back till eight hundred BC in Homer's Odyssey.
But but it takes us up through twenty twenty.
And it's a f it's a fascinating fun thing if if you're interested in the history of sleep to look at.
But we'll we'll have that in the show notes for the this episode.
That would be great.
But what's what's interesting about sleep in the modern era is up until the eighteen hundreds, really until the Industrial Revolution.
At least in Western cultures, the tendency was for people to sleep in two chucks.
It was called the first sleep of the second sleep.
So people were often going to bed at say nine, ten o'clock.
And they were sleeping till midnight one.
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