Dr. Sue McCurry
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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There started to be this push towards a longer first sleep, longer and then, oh, let's not do the second sleep at all.
And that seems to me to be the starting point for why we have the kind of sleep recommendations we have now.
Everybody should sleep.
you know, seven to nine hours in one chunk at night.
It was right around this era too with the industrial revolution too that that we start having shift work happening and bec again, 'cause the availability of light at night and people are are relying more on their time pieces.
So they're more conscious of how much time they're they're doing things and and what times they're doing things.
The confluence of many effects, I think.
that set us up for the kinds of sleep patterns that we have now.
But it's interesting because people who have what would be called sleep maintenance insomnia, they fall asleep fine, but they wake up in the middle of the night, often around like one, two in the morning.
Uh
They that is identified as a problem, a kind of insomnia, when in fact it might be that some of these people, maybe many of them for all we know
are people who are naturally reverting back to the chronorhythms that we had for thousands of years.
uh until not that long ago.
Well, everybody else was doing it too.
So they you you would have had starlight and moonlight.
And of course in the in the new moon when it was super dark and perhaps they they didn't go outside so much.
But uh Yeah.
That is wild.
Before they had gaslighting, there there were other ways.
The light just wasn't as bright.
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