Marjan Vandelaar
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Global News Podcast · US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding · 29 Jan 2025
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The thing about the sleep of cavemen is we don't know how they slept exactly, but what we do know is we studied people in Tanzania, so the Hanzo tribe, and they still live in the same circumstances as probably we did when we were cavemen. And what you can say is that they were actually quite a lot awake during the night, so that being awake during the night was quite normal.
Also, if you look at data from the Western population, you see that actually being awake up to 20% of the time that you're in the bed is quite normal. But we've lost touch with that. And I think there's a lot of perfectionism going around around sleep. And sleeping between six and eight hours per night is actually quite average.
And I think the rule really stems from Robert Owen, who was a social reformer. And he said, you have to work for eight hours, sleep for eight hours and rest or leisure for eight hours. So If we keep on saying that everybody needs to sleep eight hours without any interruptions, then I think a lot of people will get more stressed out. And a lot of people are very active before they go to bed.
They look at their social media. They're still very busy with a lot of things like on television. And for some people that works quite well, because if you have a very busy mind, then actually getting a little bit of distraction can help you fall asleep quicker.
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