false 2583661 0520246306 9780520246300 43 13 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2583661.Insomniac 746234 Gayle Greene 47 13 5 0 false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 02:57:38 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 03:06:54 -0700 2008
She brings up several interesting obervations from her research. The one I liked best was the theory that humans are not adapted to sleep in a continuous 6-8 hour stretch. Before electric illumination, apparently people used to refer to the "first sleep" followed by a period of awakeness then a "morning sleep" characterized by much more dreaming. That seems to resonate with a lot of people today as well, who try to fight the mid-sleep awakeness period because of time constraints.]]>