I think my body wants to sleep this way. I simply can't sleep more than 5 hours or so at once. To compensate, I slip in a nap or two during the day. (Luckily, being self-employed, this isn't a problem!)
Over the last few years I've gotten a lot more, hmm, aware of, into, sympathetic to how modernity has cut us off from so much of the physical, natural, imprecise world. I feel that this is at or at least near the root of many of our current ills.
Have you read David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous"?
Thank you, Carry, for sharing the Aeon article. A good read indeed. Especially the creativity connection. I’ll add Abram to my wish list.
And yes, I know what you’re saying. At times , I wake up in the middle of the night, work a bit, eat something at times. I think that works for me.
You’re right that people working 9 to 5 can’t afford to listen to their own sleep patterns, which is itself part of the story. The clock didn’t just measure time. It told us when to be tired.
I read an article on Aeon Magazine about this just a couple of weeks ago (https://aeon.co/essays/why-broken-sleep-is-a-golden-time-for-creativity if you are curious). I had no idea this was the norm at all, let alone so recently.
I think my body wants to sleep this way. I simply can't sleep more than 5 hours or so at once. To compensate, I slip in a nap or two during the day. (Luckily, being self-employed, this isn't a problem!)
Over the last few years I've gotten a lot more, hmm, aware of, into, sympathetic to how modernity has cut us off from so much of the physical, natural, imprecise world. I feel that this is at or at least near the root of many of our current ills.
Have you read David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous"?
Thank you, Carry, for sharing the Aeon article. A good read indeed. Especially the creativity connection. I’ll add Abram to my wish list.
And yes, I know what you’re saying. At times , I wake up in the middle of the night, work a bit, eat something at times. I think that works for me.
You’re right that people working 9 to 5 can’t afford to listen to their own sleep patterns, which is itself part of the story. The clock didn’t just measure time. It told us when to be tired.
I think we have been doing this since we started using fire, stone tools etc. Maybe even before that.