Dr. Sue McCurry

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632 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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There's starting to be a shift and

How late people would stay up.

And when that happened, people are now staying up instead of going to bed at nine or ten, they're going to bed at maybe

ten or eleven or a little later.

And so

Um, their sleep drive, which is one of the two biological processes that influence sleep, is homeostatic sleep drive, the the need to sleep.

By the time they're going to bed now, they're going to bed later, so the need to sleep is higher.

So perhaps what's happening is when they go to sleep they sleep longer before this natural

middle of the night awakening happens.

And so the first sleep starts getting

Longer.

And the second sleep starts getting shorter.

And then there's some cultural changes that start happening in the eighteen hundreds, late eighteen hundreds, the

uh the the writers and thinkers were also becoming very big on health.

and nutrition and exercise.

And they started emphasizing that if you

That you should sleep that first sleep, it should be longer.

And then you get up and it if you go back and you do a second sleep that it's actually kinda lazy.

that you should be up and getting to work or doing something productive.

So again, not so much in the rural communities, but in the cities, I think.

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