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(https://deploymentpsych.org/blog/staff-perspective-unresolved-sleep-mystery-segmented-sleep) Staff Perspective: An Unresolved Sleep Mystery - Segmented Sleep
Jan 10th 2024, 10:27

(https://deploymentpsych.org/blog/staff-perspective-unresolved-sleep-mystery-segmented-sleep) 

You may have heard that sleep in the modern world is different. That due to our frenetic 24/7 society, we cram sleep into a shortened sleep window and then hurry on into our days. In contrast, or so I am told going around TikTok, historically people slept in “segmented sleep” in which they would retire to bed early, awaken and stay awake for a period of an hour up to several hours, and then return to sleep until rise time. Where is the evidence for this concept? Is this some previously unknown historical discovery brought to light, or just a now-digitalized urban legend? I do not profess to be an expert in this area, so let’s explore together


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Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

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