It's a relatively recent thing to expect to sleep 8 hours a night. Animals don't sleep in long uninterrupted lumps, and neither do we. If you're a history buff, it's pretty common to see references to getting up in the night for quite substantial periods. It was considered normal. Now it's just another bizarre expectation that we put on ourselves. People make money out of these expectations!
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-maybe-we-should-again
That was a very interesting article and for me at least makes alot of sense. Fortunately for me I had another good night of sleep a nap in the day and then 6 hours so feel good in that regard. They key lately is not falling asleep in my chair before going to bed. So kinda a mini split sleep .
There's a lot of information on sleep out there if you look. I'm talking real information, not sleep clinics that want to convert you to 8 hours just cos, or ten handy tips on becoming a morning person! I've spent a lot of my life being so profoundly annoyed by the whole sleep issue. I'm a night owl. Left to my own devices, I go to sleep at around 2 and sleep until 11am. I wake during the night for an hour or so. That's my natural pattern. I could no more become a morning person than they could become me. Of course, morning people have taken over the world and I have to live on their schedule, but I don't have to believe that it's natural for me or to take on board that I am somehow lacking in willpower or whatever by not enjoying their bloody early mornings! Who do they imagine stood guard and kept the fires going in the night back in the cave???
My DH often wakes up in the middle of the night and he was happy that he article confirmed he is not sick, but that it can be a natural cycle.
About sleeping late and getting up at 11 am, that wouldn't work for me personally. I want to maximize daylight usage, so my preferred time to get up is at sun rise, which is only okay in the spring and the fall) and go to bed when it's dark. We had my BIL over for a week at our house once, and he is such a night owl as well. We had to get him out of bed at noon, just to have some part of the day left to do something in daylight.
But maybe that is caused by me being an outdoorsy person. And the outdoors are often more pleasant to be in during the day than when the sun is down.
But I am quite looking forward to not having to set an alarm clock and just waking up naturally. That is usually an hour and a half after that alarm clock goes off, especially this time of the year when the days are so short.
@AnnaGrowsAMustache You could gard the cave indeed. Also at work, the people who start really late are the ones who are there at the end of the day when the morning birds have left ridiculously early. I like it that people can start working at the time that fits them best, within reasonable times. And as long as they don't promise to arrive early and then don't, like one of my coworkers does.
