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Vietnam man not slept for at least 50 years. Worth telling his story.
If mankind lasted 24h, at least 20 hours was spent out of civilization, living in tribes in the wilds like animals (if not 23+, I don't have the precise knowledge but it was many thousands of years). And in such an environment, sleeping often meant dying since you're so vulnerable when asleep. This meant people needed to take turns of 2 to 3 hours of keeping watch, to ensure sleeping people weren't attacked by some animal(s) or murderer(s) / other tribes. A single watchman wouldn't cut it - if the tribe was 50 people strong, it needed 25 people fully awake to still be a force to be reckoned with and deter attackers (someone who just wakes up isn't the most alert fighter, to say the least). Also, someone needed to watch the watcher... It's not surprising at all this ritual is still our natural way of sleeping, having been ingrained into our DNA for so long. So nowadays we aren't sleeping "wrong" ; we're just still used to this ancestral cycle that was forced on us because of survival needs.
Do a story on delusional egos who made self indulventv movies like Steven Seagal and others like John De Hart. Mocking then is a way off life. E.g. Space Ice. Every movie is basically a Lloyd Christmas fantasy day dream.
6:12 who’s wong and why are we doing it?
6:12 who’s wong and why are we doing it?
As a child, I would get in trouble for waking up in the middle of the night and reading by flashlight. At 61, I don't need the flashlight because I pay the electric bill.
Are we related? 😁
😂😂😂
I used to get up and sneak into the living room to watch nudie movies when I was about 10.
Those readings by flashlight sure did feel surreal compared to the ceiling light.
@nathanpearce7169 Right? And in my case, with a strict military father, it made reading the most innocent book an adventure into potential horror.
Since Ive retired and no longer adhere to a specific schedule, Ive reverted to sleeping this way. I kinda love being awake when the world is asleep...its so very quiet and different.
Nice to see I'm not the only one. 😊
while i am still working i always take about a 2 hour Nap once i get home, 16-18.
then i cook and are awake for about 3 more hours before sleeping again until i wake up naturally before work.
I always thought i was odd but seeing this kinda makes sense on the whole where everyone at my job are like seamines until they had coffee for an hour when work starts.
Always been a “night owl”, no one wants or expects anything from you at that time, its quiet and should i wish to just sit and watch paint dry, i can do so without judgement 😂.
I'm not yet retired - I'm now single, in my 50s and work reduced hours - but I increasingly follow my own sleep pattern when I can, which means 2 or 3 shorter chunks with activity in between. And as you say, being up in the wee small hours can feel liberating. No interruptions, you can do what you want, take as long as you want, knowing there's a comfy bed to go back to.
Seems as we get older we lapsing back to older times. I'm finding i'm bored by 9pm, i want to go to bed, but only need 7 hours sleep.
The industrial revolution would have put a stop to naps. The masses were told when to wake up and when to sleep according to working hours. It still persists today.
And people just swallowed it. Like the sheep they are
And they claim slavery was abolished.
I am retired. I don't have to care about working hours.
But now I can go to sleep (or fall asleep) any moment of the day but also stay awake for 20 hours. Sleep for 1 hour or until 10 hours in one part. It is like the natural rhythm (forgot the English term now) does not work on me. But I don't have problems to stay concentrated when necessary. I also have to add that I'm living alone.
Maybe, with evolution, people will not be bound any longer to daylight time.
@@rigger5015they were coerced and exploited by those more wealthy and powerful. You'd have had no choice either
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This is very interesting. I'm 57, and for the last 10 years or so, for a variety of shifting reasons, I haven't been tied to the standard 9-5 working hours. I've started sleeping exactly like this. It doesn't matter how early or late I go to sleep, unless I'm absolutely, physically shattered, I wake up 4 hours later. I'm then wide awake for about 2 hours, before I crash again for up to 4. The 4 hours limit seems very "hard". What does disturb it is the addictive nature of TH-cam videos and social media (I don't have TV): the "just one more video" psychology is real.
Thank you for this analysis, now I do not need to waste time watching this video. :) BTW I am 65 and retired for several years now and I agree with everything you said. I still can not get away from TH-cam. And I watch mostly only educational content, I'm not watching junk. There is just too much legitimately good stuff on YT.
I’m 45, disabled and exactly the same. I gave up TV years ago. I do like movies but otherwise it’s books, music and TH-cam documentaries. I nap through the day due to pain and fatigue but I don’t fully go to sleep. I just relax, drowse and recharge. I never sleep more than four hours so I’m used to getting up and going back to bed. I’ve also found that, if my fatigue is really bad and I fall into a deep sleep for more than 5/6 hours, it sets off my migraines.
Maybe we have been doing it right for so long and everyone else is wrong! I’ll certainly be bringing up the research next time someone tells me I need to sleep better!
Its nice to know that im not a weirdo sleeping like that too. Can yo tell me what your avatar means? Its quite interesting and familiar to me. Thanks.
@@АлександрШестикрылов who’s Avatar?
Wait, waitwaitwaitwaitwait. You mean to say that my so-called "sleeping disorder" is actually just me doing it in the way that everyone else is supposed to?!
I live with cats, and it's considered natural to segment sleep around 24hrs. As I was raised by cats I've always considered it natural 😂😽
I was put on insomnia meds when I was a child because I have segmented sleep. I'm so mad rn yet feel so validated.
no your sleep just sucks
I mean... how do we even define the word "disorder" anyway?
Most of the time those are just instincts that either surface in some new and exciting way or ones an individual just flat out failed to suppress altogrther.
@@richardscathouse Cats don't care about your alarm clock 😅
My mother told me about this kind of thing when I was a kid. She said people used to sleep for a few hours, wake up, check on the animals or whatever, then go back to sleep.
Are you 126 years old?
(I kid, I kid)
Check that nobody steal your chiken
Lucky! My mother thought I was being willful and punished me for it.
But somehow I always knew it was right for me.
@@181cameronI old, I old
@@MACTEP_CHOB
I literally had to do that the other day
Not that funny especially after you find just the feathers, no chicken at 3 am
Second sleep, second breakfast. Maybe I'm a Hobbitt?
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Only if you've got the oversized hairy feet
@@paulhodgersI feel like you’re calling me out right now
@@Slip0824 maybe i am.. 😆, I prefer 3rd breakfast though 2nd is a bit rubbish
@@paulhodgers I will be unironically buying one of those tiny modular homes to start with until I can afford more add-ons. If only there was a little hill that I could build under!
Nobody "forgot" how to sleep. People were just FORCED to squeeze sleep in the time they weren't working! As simple as that!
In the 90s, I spent some time living in two areas of Uganda with limited or no electricity. Many people, particularly women and children I think, did seem to have biphasic sleep patterns, going to sleep after the sun went down, then getting up to prepare food to eat about midnight. In a village, I was once persuaded out into the darkness after eating. I had been summoned earlier in the day by the local police and thought I had avoided this and was dismayed and bemused to find myself expected to go now at 1am. I was further bemused to find half the village awake and congregated in the main street where all the shops were open, lit by paraffin lamps. It was quite a social event, everyone standing around talking and laughing. As It turned out, I had actually been summoned by the police to drink waragi and party at their place. Everyone went back home to sleep about 3 am or so. At the time I didn't know about biphasic sleeping patterns, but it all makes sense now!
Very nice story
In rural Turkey at a village with small tourist outdoor bars, light chitchat, the town generator went out and entire village plunged into darkness, a billion blazing stars visible. Then one by twos and fives, candles lit every window and guitars and baglama began to play softly. Nice. At the bazaar in Marrakesch many years ago, a tourist and I in a home-stay found two conga drums and brought them up on the roof. It was a full moon night, so we started jamming, and the whole market got quiet. It felt like we were holding the universe aloft, until our arms wore out. Now you can't even see the universe at night.
I work nights, so am normally awake all night, but on nights off, this is pretty much how I sleep
Your eloquent choice of words makes you sound like a president from the 1920's. Cool, but at the same time quite difficult to read ;)
@@markmolenaar843 I however, thought, wow, written by someone with an education.
Night owls also may be genetically linked to ancestors who stayed awake at night to protect their tribes, ensuring the group’s safety.
i hear teenagers and young adults are skewed towards a late schedule to fill exactly that role. i wonder wether its both
💯 why teenagers are awake at night. They were probably tasked with “the watch.’
Source: trust me bro
All of us are related to ancestors who stayed awake at night to protect their families. Otherwise their families would have died, and you would not be born.
@@everrettbreezewood3665Yes and some were better than others it doesn’t mean they all did it effectively.
I am a biphasic sleeper. And I had never heard of it until this video. I just thought I was weird. Every single night I wake, then after an hour or two sleep again. Every night. I’ve watched your videos for years but none have ever made me feel like this.
wtf, ikr same. been sleeping like this for years now, thought i was weird aswell!
Same! A big reason why my husband and I have separate bedrooms.
As a kid I used to get up and play for a few hours in the middle of night.
Damn, so when I wake up at 2 AM I should stop torturing myself by trying to fall asleep for hours and just stand up and do some shit
Nah yur weird
This happens to me almost nights as well but I never get to sleep early enough for it to be ok. Like I’ll end up getting only 4-5 hours of sleep cause of the wakeful period in between.
This theory needs to consider alcohol abuse, and most adults in the Middle Ages were drinking alcoholic beverages to avoid unsafe water. When alcohol wears off, around 3-4 hours after bedtime, a person can be wide awake and need 1-2 hours to fall back asleep.
Also your bladder would insist you wake up!
Reminds me of the need to account for the fact that we, as a culture, no longer normalize smoking - and our ideas of how fast a metabolism should be on average are all from before that change.
That said, I seem to be a naturally biphasic sleeper and I rarely drink alcohol. My bladder, on the other hand, does wake me up anyway from non-alcoholic drinks, so half the point may well stand regardless!
That's not 'abuse'. Medieval beer had low alcoholic content. It wasn't the same as modern binge drinking.
@@G96Saber Exactly. I went to a "living" Museum once and they brewed beer there. It tasted barely alkoholic in comparison and and reminded me of the saying "beer is liquid bread".
Don't forget that wells existed and to sully a well was punishable by death as far as I know. Well water would've been groundwater, which is filtered by the soil. So it is pretty much drinkable.
All my life I’ve had “sleep issues” with monophasic sleep pattern. Ignoring my body signalling me to sleep at 8pm. Naturally waking up at 1am feeling completely refreshed. I would then spent hours being upset to why I’m awake in the middle of the night. So upset I can’t go back to sleep, to the point I was so sleep deprived I felt like I was dying. Now that I’ve seen this video; I now enjoy this time able to go back to sleep. Whether I’m watching movies, reading, journaling or meditating.
New sleep pattern:
8pm - 12am
2am - 6am
Thank you, you have saved my life 🙏🏾❤🙏🏾❤️
This video has helped my mind too just now! I have had this EXACT thing on many occasions and thought I was sleeping wrong...
Same!!
I just understood why I could never ever sleep through the night and always had to wake up for a few hours no matter how I tried to not do that.
I find sleeping earlier bedore 10am gets me 7.5 hours consistently. Theres no need to practice biphasic sleep at all
Interesting. Thats exactly the sleep schedule i was thinking about. i have to wake at 6am for work.
Im from central europe and my granddad told me that his great granddad had told him that before the electric lightning they had used to go to sleep as soon as the sunset, then wake up around 3 am, go chat with the neighbours, feed the animals and milk the cows for a hour or so and then go to sleep again for around 2,5 hours. I think it is fascinating that it wasn't weird for them just to "invade" their neighbours or that they were tired enough to fall asleep again.
I think another thing that we struggle to fully comprehend is the mindset of people who didn't have clocks and immediate means of communication. Actually, going to visit the neighbors during the watch was probably the best time because you weren't interrupting their ordinary work. This was kind of universal "free time." Of course, if the lamp's not lit, don't knock on the door. 😁
@@brucetidwell7715 Not just socialising, it's a way of checking on everyone in your area.
Dairy farmers life, too. Start at ~4:00, home for brekky and a nap then into it for the day
Truthfully I don't know why its not told in the video but our 8 hours sleep is 2 full sleep cycle. We were always splitting this in the night throughout history until the industrialization era.
Before modern smart phones (and even phones), you would often just go visit people with no warning or planning.
I've fallen into this pattern naturally, upon retirement. I thought I'd lost my circadian rhythm. Now I'll feel good about it!
did you stop moving as intensely as before?
That makes sense. I've heard of many retirees who have done the same. When I have the ability to work whenever I want to, I fall into the same pattern. I've read before, on a few different occasions that people didn't start sleeping the way most people do today didn't start until after the industrial revolution startred and they had to go to work early and work 8,10,12 hours a day. People typically had longer work days back then, so they had to get all of their sleep in at once.
This is blowing my mind! This is exactly what has been happening to me during the past year. I’m +64 years old and now I’m not working anymore. What I slept in one continuous sleep I was feeling tired for the entire day. But the day after I had two shorter periods of sleep I felt much more rested. I’ve ever come to accept that there’s nothing wrong with the two periods of sleep. It works better. Segmented sleep is the way to go!!
I slept half the night. Got up. Saw this.
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ME TOO!!
There for this video must be true! Thanks to confirm, haha.
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Same here. It's my preferred way of sleeping.
If you are keeping warm by a wood fire, It is much easier to make a fire that will last unattended for 4-5 hours. 8 hours at a streach is possible, but not easy. The patern makes sense if you need to wake in the middle of the night to tend the fire.
That makes sense for a small family. For larger groups, that's the role of the one who's up all night -- the Night Owl vs. the group of Early Birds, or the Neurodivergent person whose brain is specced for staying up during the night and being able to focus intently on specific things different from the rest of the group. That tidbit made me think a bit differently of the common idea that those who stay up through the night are somehow wrong for doing so...
@@Arkylie Someone had to stay up and watch for intruders as well.
Even more than that, more likely why we didn't just sleep throughout the entire night time is because people waking up and going to bed again in the middle of the night didn't happen at the exact same time, it was staggered. It was literally a NIGHTS WATCH, because yes, things were dangerous at night. We spent 99% of the time of our evolutionary history as humans without artificial light or fire and for most of that we slept outside exposed to the elements with predators.
A few years ago, I retired to a rural community. Dark town, pitch black skies, no noise at night. After years of working several stressful jobs, grinding my teeth and poor sleep. It took me a few years to adjust. But now I go dark when the sky goes dark.And sleep deeply. I often wake up in the middle of the night and do something before going back for the second nap. I guess we would call this biphasic sleeping.
But do you turnnon the lights or look onntge phone? My mob has problems sleeping and she also often wakes up and does some of these. And it's not because she goes to bed early.
Perfect explanation
@@635574 Dimmed light yes, phone or any screens no.
My son goes to bed around 7-8pm. I need to follow two hours later to keep same sleep pattern with him being awake around 1-3am.
I think bi-phasic sleep is natural. You may wake up for minutes to hour or two and then sleep again. Worst for the sleep is to not follow your pattern. It is slightly different for everyone. E.g. 3, 5 or 7 hours first sleep and with 7h it may not be a time for second. But then 2 or 4 for next one.
Also most people I ever asked preferred to sleep 7 or 9 hours if in one go :) But tend to tell they slept 6 or 8, because it's "shame" to sleep more than 1/3 of the day and is more "advertised" to sleep even number of hours and just those correct 8 hours a day.
But no ability to see the plane of the galaxy?
@@635574My sleep docs say the less artificial light, the better. I was told that watching TV is better than the phone because the light affects you more the closer the source is.
Using a blue blocking app if I will be on the phone or blue blocking glasses at night seems to help me a lot.
I realized when I was camping how much artificial light messes me up-I was actually sleepy once the sun went down, which never happens normally. I usually have an awful time getting to sleep.
this is really comforting! i'm sitting here watching this in the middle of the night between two sleeps, and for the first time not feeling dread that something's wrong and i'm going to pay for this. now i just need to convince my boss and coworkers that we should bring back after-lunch naps...
There have been other studies as well. In one study participants had their clocks removed but were in charge of the light, and could turn it on/off when they wanted to, each person alone in one room. They were instructed to go to sleep/get up when they believed it was night/day time. Within a week they had developed 2 sleeping times. I read this in Scientific American years ago . Thank you for the video!
FYI: After watching this I napped for 2 hrs! Usually I never do.... Although I did have a bunch of wine last night .... :)
I've lately been sleeping for 2-3 hours some time after I get home from work. Say between sometime between 20-24. Then I'm awake to 3-4 before I sleep for 2-3 hours before going to work. I actually woke at exactly 24.00 today after sleeping from around 21.00. It's not 4.00 and was just about to go to bed when I started watching this video. Going up around 6:30.
It's also been shown that without the sun, humans adapt a 48hr waking 18hr sleep cycle, or something close to that
@@jokercardzz that’s interesting! I think we’re so ingrained of how/when we should sleep so we don’t listen to our self’s and what we need. I know soldiers train to stay awake for long hrs.
@@jokercardzz I often pull all nighters and still be full of energy until I collapse the day after, it’s really hard for me to fall asleep otherwise…I’d be so vindicated if it turns out to be a natural way my body works!
Interesting, I sleep like this in camp when hiking. I get in my tent when the sun goes down and drift off to sleep early. Then about 2am I wake up for about 2 hours, pee then chill in my tent until I fall back to sleep and wake up not long after the sun rises. I have to say doing hard work like walking 12 miles with a 24lb pack all day and then sleeping like this does feel oddly natural. Like he said at the end though, it really makes me appreciate the luxury of my bed and light switches when I get home and I sleep like a baby for 8 solid hours. The nights are very long, very dark, sometimes very cold and the morning sunrise is so welcome out there in the woods.
Excellent description! I agree with you completely.
Seems like a massive waste of time though being awake for 2 hours doing nothing lol
Peeing in your tent and then chilling in it for the rest of the night is kinda weird bro.
@@alpenjodel24 Damn you right though. I am going to try peeing away from my tent next time. 🤣
@@ozbloke36empty87 Sometimes it does feel like a waste of time so I snack, drink some hooch and read. It is definitely solid down time.
I'm a biphasic sleeper, for the most part. A doctor once advised me that if I can't sleep after staying in bed for more than 30 minutes, I should get up and do something. When I started following this advice, my sleep patterns changed naturally. Now, most nights around 2 AM, I find myself watching TH-cam videos for an hour or two before going back to sleep.
For everyone talking about cell phones: cell phones were a large brick that could do nothing more than make calls when this conversation happened. The sleep specialist that told me this did say television was fine. After decades of biphasic sleep you tube was invented.
Me, too. I wake up, go to the bathroom, watch some videos or read something, then go back to sleep.
This is what I did during both my pregnancies. Felt like my body trying to get back into a natural pattern to prepare for all the night waking it was about to experience 😂
I do that now as I am retired….don’t have to get up early to get to work 🤪
Sorta me as well. Yet on FB from about 1:30am to 3am. Then asleep till 5:30 or 6am(work at 7am)
Snack and a video game for me.
At Midsomer at my summer cottage (no distractions), when the sun doesn't set I've noticed I sleep in 2 phases sometimes. If I have a busy day and I go to sleep about 10pm and wake at 2am for a few hours and then I sleep 2-3 hours or so in the morning. It's amazing having a hot cup at 2-4am and watching everything and everyone sleep. Sitting on the deck and watching a calm lake is so soothing.
It would make sense that we were always biphasic sleepers. Our ancestors had to wake up and check the fire!
When I was living alone in the mountains in a wigwam around 0C I had to wake up exactly at 4-5 hours in the morning to add some wood to the fire because the fire in a pit in wigwam lasts maximum 4-5 hours.
makes sense.
Still do lol! And to pee...
Never heard of a fire watch?
Ancestors hell. I had to do that for 20 years!
Well, they also had to take turns keeping watch for predators and such.
I always thought I suffered from insomnia but this is the way I sleep and I cannot stop it. I wake up late everyday in the morning because I am wide awake every night at 2am to 4:30am (during The Watch) and I go back to sleep and wake up around 8am. I am not suffering from insomnia... I have a "normal" sleep pattern and I am suffering from living in the modern age. Thank you!!!!
2-4AM? same here.
Me to
Very specific time...I find it interesting that I'm seeing similar comments. I too, if I go to bed at a normal time, wake at about 2:00 am and can't go back to sleep for another two to two and a half hours. But I usually fight through my need to sleep as the sun goes down. So I end up sleeping late into the morning.
But at what time do you go to sleep?
@@1026JMS I typically go to bed around 10pm. Thinking about it more, I suspect that I sleep this way because I have nocturia. Because of my nocturia, if I went to bed later, I would not be able to sleep through the night like a normal person does. The biphasic sleep works better for me because of the nocturia.
Segmented sleep makes so much sense when you think about our prehistoric ancestors! After the first sleep, some might have ventured out to hunt nocturnal prey under the moonlight, while others kept watch for predators or tended the fire. It’s amazing to imagine these quiet hours being filled with storytelling, crafting tools, or planning the next day's hunt. It really shows how deeply connected our sleep patterns are to the rhythms of ancient survival.
You mentioned a thing that i very specifically think is Important.
"Tending the fire"
We had normal fireplaces, then some kind of fireplace within stone, then to a wood furnace/stovetop and finally the usual wood burner in the homes. These only produce the heat when there is fire.
And the fire does last quite some time, up to 5 hours in modern wood burners.
But "up to 5 hours" is weird for everyone. Your house cooled down a looot when you went to bed and slept for 8 hoursbecause 3 hours were not heated.
But havibg for example 4h/4h sleep patterns allows you to keep the fire, keep the warmth and you can always do something between these 2 phases as long as you are not quite tired enough to simply fall back asleep.
My family used to live in a house that simoly wouldn't capture any heat, the oven ran almost the whole day. My stepfather did put in more wood before going to sleep, but in the morning it was depressingly cold.
But a 4h/4h pattern would have been the best option to not just keep the fire going, but also to do the things that you usually can't really do in your usual time.
We are not built for night hunting, but tending the fire would certainly make a lot of sense.
@@NostraDunwhich According to whom? Not everyone has dreadful night blindness. I can hunt in the darkness just fine.
No, there's no evidence of that, just a theory and not a good one.
@@refrigerant1245You overlooked home coal furnaces.
We still had one when I was a kid in the 60s/early 70s. Coal delivery was still a normal thing. You used wood to get the fire going, but coal was the big source of heat.
First one up in the morning had to get the furnace stoked and a fire going. Now that I'm old, I'm glad I don't have to freeze in winter mornings anymore. 😄
I am almost 80 years old and retired. Overtime since I retired I have gradually developed tendency to wake up in the night at two or three or 4 AM. Be up for a while and then go back to sleep again. Somehow by face sleep seems to be creeping up on me. Thank you for a wonderful and informative video.
Love your work Mr. Thoughyt2. Thanks for entertaining us with your well researched and cleverly/cutely presented videos. Very cool. Don't stop 😁
Amazing ❤
what a waste
wasting $20 just to not get at least pinned is insane
@@VickBroski I'm an adult. I'll get over it.
@ I was referring to the lack of recognition that you received from the content creator, rather than your incapability to deal with the sorrow that come from getting 21 likes and a few replies after donating a somewhat considerable amount of money.
This biphasic sleep pattern is what I do in winter time when I have no scheduled work.
This started happening to me at 35, Im 40 and a seasonal worker too. During the summer ill sleep a 7-8 hour night. Soon as we do daylight savings Its dark way early in the fall and thats when I start sleeping in 2 shifts.
Same here. Not sure if I'm actually using my bladder as an alarm clock.
@ dude I know this is TMI BUT…I don’t think that the case I think our bodies are just ready to get up and do shit. Cause now I am taking my normal 8am deuce at like 3am. Wake up, shit, do some shit, back to bed couple hours lol
I have a mild photosensitivity, so I usually use less intense lighting at home. I tend to go to sleep immediately after dinner, and then wake up in the middle of the night to watch TH-cam (being from Southeast Asia, most channels I follow tend to upload after midnight for me), then have an early breakfast and go back to sleep before work.
Funny enough, biphasic is what I do when I've been woken in the night due to being on call.
I’ve been experiencing biphasic sleep for years and never thought about whether it was normal or not. Very cool video-I’ve learned something new! Thanks
I think my body naturally does this! I have always blamed insomnia but I just love taking a nap in the evening, preferably after dinner. Then I wake up around 1 or 2 and stay awake for a couple hours. And finally I go back to sleep until I have to get the kids up for school and start my day as well! It has always felt better than fighting to stay awake until “bedtime” and then not being able to sleep very well when I finally do lay down! Very interesting video.. thank you for sharing! You gained a follower in me 😁
As a homesteader or a person who lives off the grid I can testify this is beyond accurate information. My sleep pattern has completely adjusted with the light and lack of. I go to bed early wake up in the very early hrs go back to sleep and start the morning a Lil later than most. I also get about 10 hrs of great rest and before this I had insomnia for over 20 yrs. True story.
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Noticed this with vanlife too. I spend most my time in nature and now when I visit people in the city I feel all out of whack.
Homesteading gotta be hard work, but liberating and satisfying. Bi-phasic sleep may be helpful for self-sufficiency, checking on animals, etc..? I dunno, I've never lived off grid. Presently I'm locked into the all consuming grid and I'm poly-phasic sleeping at best...😭Woe is me!🤣
We had a 4-day power outage last year in my area during sub-freezing temperatures. I ran a generator with minimal electricity to my fridge, internet router, and space heaters. It was the best sleep I remember having.
I converted myself to having a first and second sleep every night for almost 3 years. It’s completely changed my life, i don’t have any trace of depression anymore and all the symptoms of ADHD have completely disappeared.
I recommend this to anyone and everyone
Do you suspect your new sleep pattern was the main reason? I have depression myself, I’m curious to know what else also helped
I have been doing by physic sleeping for several years as well. I’ve only noticed a marginal difference. But, I’m so glad that it has helped you.
CAn you be a bit more precise :) more details?
Oh really? May I ask, what is your professional occupation? Because if you work 8 hours straight during the day, 9-5 let's say, it is impossible to have this sleeping pattern..
@@riaanbrown4862When i tried, it didn't help my depression substantially, but it did help with my sleep problems.
Interesting that infants and toddlers often sleep until about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, stay awake for a while, then fall asleep again
My Grandparents were farmers and had to tend the wood stove all winter getting up in the middle of the night for about 6 months each year. They didn't get electricity until about 1930 and during the depression they didn't use it much. That pattern I'm sure trained their habits (ie: getting a drink, trotting to the outhouse, ect) so even after they got modern heat they got up in the middle of the night their whole life. In my later years now and on a farm, I get real sleepy by about 1 hr after dark and yes, I wake up for an hour or two around 1am, go back to sleep and sleep until daylight. I think it's all about artificial light.
I think the biggest point you made is about the stove for heat. I once lost power for 4 days in an ice storm; and I found myself waking up every few hours to make sure the generator didn't run out of gas...or stolen HAHA. Another thought about this, watch cats and dogs sleep...they wake up easily; mostly light sleepers. So; when us humans have more to tend to in the middle of the night...makes sense to me (and why it's far less common) - it's simply just not needed in normal conditions now due to technology and safety- and...especially heat during an ice storm
@@nicolebelanger6692 that argument is strengthened when you think about how women often become very light sleepers when they are mothers or how easily you can get out of bed when you go on vacation at 4am.
I have some friends in their late 20s/early 30s who grew up in mountain villages without electricity. I'm curious to ask them about this, if they changed their sleep patterns when they moved to a modern, electrified city.
My Grandma and her sister, who at the time had modern plumbing, used a chamber pot at night. I'm pretty sure they would have when they had an outhouse. Who wants to put shoes on, or a jacket, in the middle of the night. I once threw a paperback at the wall for saying people went out in the dark, in a snowstorm to use their outhouse. I suppose maybe you would with the ones that are in a connected annex up in New Hampshire, USA.
@kitefan1 my Grandpa used the outhouse till the day he died in the late 70's, he thought it was wronge to poop in the house.
My grandmother is 102 this month, I did often wonder when we were kids why she got up at 4am or earlier and then have another nap early on, but I just assumed it was because she was old. Thanks for the knowledge. 😉
Haha that was my father. He passed away in 2016 at 89 yrs old. I had the oldest parents in my hood. They had my sister n I when they were 40. But all I remember is him getting up at around 4-5am on his off days only to be taken an hour nap 9am for an hour . He'd do another hour nap later on around 3-4pm till dinner was ready at 5pm
My grandma took a daily nap. Even If she didn't sleep the phone was off the hook and the door was locked for 2 hours every day. She lived to nearly 97 and she was lucid and cognitive until her last 2 months of life. She also outlived 2 pacemakers and 3 batteries in said pacemaker she had heart failure for 40 years. NAPS save lives and also extend them
If I woke up at 4, I'd need a nap too..
I've lately been sleeping for 2-3 hours some time after I get home from work. Say between sometime between 20-24. Then I'm awake to 3-4 before I sleep for 2-3 hours before going to work. I actually woke at exactly 24.00 today after sleeping from around 21.00. It's not 4.00 and was just about to go to bed when I started watching this video. Going up 6:30.
@@rothed16wow… this is exactly my sleep pattern!… it just seems to work better for me…
Your voice is mind-melting, smooth yet the Vibrato, the pitch, it's too much, somebody help me!
Sleep is a luxury some nights.
No rest for the wicked.
Most nights!
I found this riveting. When I retired several years ago I started waking up around 1:00--2:00 every morning. I thought it was some sort of insomnia brought on by the fact that I literally had nowhere to go in the morning & my body was adjusting to my new lifestyle. After about 2 hours I would again become sleepy & go back to bed. This was quite worrisome for me at first. After about a year of doing this, I just decided to go with the flow & listen to my body. Eight years later & I'm still biphasing. Some nights I will sleep for a full 8 to 9 hours, but more times than not I will sleep in 2 distinctive chunks. This video helped to quell some of my anxiety as to why I do this. Thank you.
I work from home on my own hours, and this is me too... So it stands to reason this is how most people would sleep if there were not forced to wake early in the mornings
Yes agree, I decided to just go with it as well. Now ( 15 years in ) I actually like it
@@revbenif I have a longer first sleep I stay awake longer in between and less sleep in the second.
I've had the same experience. When I first saw a video about biphasic sleep about 18 months ago, I realized what was happening, and stopped agonizing over early morning wakefulness. I just do some stuff until I get sleepy again, and don't stress about it.
i think this happens to a lot of retirees. my dad is like this, he gets up around 2am and will go to the lounge room for an hour or two, watching tv or playing sudoku (pity he didn't clean instead! ha)
Thanks for the validation! I'm in my 60s and find that I'm ready for sleep before 8pm. I sleep pretty good until midnight, then have a couple hours until I can fall asleep again. Just glad I dont have little ones to chase after anymore!!
This happens to me too, but I do have little ones, so I'm like "What the heck am I doing? Go back to sleep!" Luckily, I always do - then I can hardly get up in the morning.
Okay this video just blew my mind, I'm in my late 20s and throughout my young adulthood due to career choices and changes, I had periods where I was only working part-time or having semesters that basically required me to have NO alarm clock and a lot of free time, well...I've spent the past decade researching why I always wake up after about 4h30 of sleep no matter what.
I even went as far as measuring different water intakes and time of last meal, dark room, podcasts, ted talks, books, even chatgpt, the best "I got to" was that we supposedly need a 4h30 block of sleep and then we'd do 90 min cycles til we wake up (hence 6 hours, 7h30, 9 hours sleep).
So I've spent this whole time thinking something had to be wrong, it made no sense why when completely unrestricted I'd naturally wake after 4h30 or so, I'm in awe as to how perfectly this video fit, for the next month or so I'll try to embrace this and actually get up for a couple of hours instead of tossing and turning, also, I've always noticed that in the few times throughout the years where I did get up and then naturally fell asleep later, waking up from what i've been calling "nap" (i didn't think of it as a 2nd sleeping block) resulted in me waking up feeling really really refreshed.
So thank you so much, this video did more for me than you know!
Once lived in a cabin with no electricity or running water. By 8 or 9pm would be overwhelmed with the desire to sleep. Invariably I woke in the wee a.m. hours...wide awake...and a kind of mental energy to read, quilt or fix some small thing. After a short time I was back to bed. I always awoke refreshed. Never felt I had lost sleep.
Then I experimented. At 8 p.m. I lit the kerosene lamps and read for a few more hours. In bed around 11p.m. Eventually I was not waking before 6 a.m. or so. Then I returned to no lights, went to bed earlier and began waking in the wee hours. When I did I lit the lamps. I would work thru till dawn and on through the day.
Apparently the lights stimulated the pineal gland. Living in that forest and by the natural light allowed me to sleep when my body and/or mind needed to "collate " 😊 because there were many nights when I lay awake thru the night just listening to the night sounds and rising with energy enough to sustain me through the day.
It seems that even if one were to adjust to mono or biphasal sleep, artificial light (including cell phones etc.) will be a big disruptor to that attempt.
Yep, I've done that experiment. Leave all the lights off as the sun is setting. By the time civil twighlight ends I'm yawning up a storm
I wear deep amber colored blue blockers starting at sunset. My iPad set to night mode & light turned way down. Nothing but a dim red lamp for light. Then it’s pitch black, even when I have to visit the bathroom, and very cool. I also watch the sunrise every morning. That is when we make melatonin, darkness makes us release it.
I read a similar article a few years ago. The diaries of early Americans were being studied so they had documentation of the two phases of sleep, complete with visiting their neighbors in the middle of the night which absolutely amazed me. Since retirement I have become a biphasic sleeper although about every third night or so, I will sleep for a larger chunk of time. I've assumed it is some form of my body catching up on needed rest.
Ok. This explains alot...maybe. I usually am awake between 2am and 4am, no matter what time I go to bed. Weird! Thanks Thoughty2!
You have set my mind at ease, since I've been waking consistently in the wee hrs. Now I'm going to embrace it and put it to use.. Thank you.
I worked for a man in Seattle who never slept. He told me that he had a very serious illness when he was a child and after recovering never slept again. I wish I could remember what illness that was but this was nearly fifty years ago. Ron was part owner of a yacht sales business on Lake Union. He did the book keeping. I lived nearby and was a very young man and was out till the wee hours of the morning and when I drove by at all hours of the night I'd see him sitting at his desk. He told me that he laid down every night and closed his eyes and rested for about twenty minutes but never went to sleep and I believe he did just that. He was a very nice man, born into a fairly wealthy Seattle family. I don't think he was married and he seemed to have no interest in dating. He was a workaholic and seemed to prefer his dockside office to his home. Maybe he was guarding the boats that he had for sale there. Let's face it, he was a bit odd but very nice. I hope he's still ok.
No such thing as someone who doesn't sleep. Physically impossible. Look up any kind of research into people who've tried to not sleep - AND GOTTEN RECORDED THE ENTIRE TIME - they always failed and could never. It's hilarious that the ones who claim they can do it, never accept an offer of being studied.
They've made a movie about it, it's called sleepless in Seattle
Without sleep he would have died.
So he lied.
@@kaihinkelmann Thanks for your completely ignorant uneducated and uninformed opinion. It's so critically important for me to know exactly what you think that I just can't thank you enough
@@PendeltonWhiskey Educate yourself. LOL
Thanks Thought2! You have a great channel.
Thanks!
I hve a radical idea. Sleep freestyle. When you're tired, sleep. When you're not tired, don't sleep. Sleep whenevr, wherevr.
I do this in the winter on the farm too. I usually just stay in bed and listen to books during The Watch.
When I was young I ALWAYS woke up during the middle of the night, had some cereal, pottered about for a bit then went back to sleep. Remember it well.
I guess it goes away when you have tonstart waking up early.
So glad i found this! Biphasic/Multiphasic sleep is something relevant that i have made note of throughout my life. I have taken to what i call "living by my body"; paying attention to what my body wants (cravings for food other than sugar, sunlight, activity, social interaction, etc) and trying to pay attention to my instincts. I had a GF that (interesting side note, was found to have an unusually high percentage of Neanderthal DNA through a genetics test) had similar proclivities, and as a result, "napped like a cat" throughout the day instead of sleeping all at once (highly multiphasic). Becoming accustomed to her sleep schedule was...complicated...i couldnt do the 3-4 rests per day thing but in breaking my sleep pattern with her i found myself naturally settling into a biphasic sleep cycle. my youngest child too, would naturally do this when she was 4-10 years old. we sleep for a few hours when it gets dark, wake up a few hours later, make a light snack, clean up from dinner, joke around and maybe play some games, then head back to bed for the rest of our sleep sometime in the small hours. Personally, the rhythm feels better, i dont wake up hard, needing an hour...or hours...to fully wake up. i hit the ground running just like a cat or a dog waking from rest. The most significant result being the total erasure of my "hard wake up" morning symptoms: -Feeling weak/atrophied in the morning from not moving for 8-10 hours, -Feeling dehydrated from lack of water, especially during the hot months or hot sleeps, -The "pit of void" or "black hole" feeling in my stomach no longer exhibits in the morning, -Energy levels are stable and -*Significant* reduction in morning brain fog/grogginess. I am of the opinion that this demonstrates serious scientific merit and has brought me to focus and study on what i think to be the final golden key of sleep: Why we are the only species on earth to use a mattress-like object to sleep on; when most creatures (as well as some of the more productive human cultures on earth) tend to sleep on more palette-like beds.
Really interesting! This is consistent with a few things I’ve observed about myself in recent years, since I don’t have an externally imposed schedule, and get tired much more easily since developing chronic illnesses. First, I feel emotionally “down” when the sun goes down, and usually tired as well. The most effective remedy is to take a nap; if I don’t, I’m basically just repressing these feelings until I finally go to bed. Second, I feel less tired after waking up naturally when I haven’t gotten “enough” sleep. I completely agree with your assessment. Third, when I go with a bi-phasic or multi-phasic schedule, I actually sleep more restfully on the floor than in bed, and wake up feeling less tired! Thanks so much for sharing! I’m going to experiment with this and see how it might affect my health and energy levels.
Great video! Just a small recap, mid-day nap (siesta) is common not only in the Mediterranean, but also in China. A few years ago I went on a few weeks work at Huawei in Shanghai. Lunch was served within the company's premises, and immediately afterwards, the engineers would go back to their offices (open-space mostly), and individually went to sleep in various positions (improvised mattresses, office chairs, etc), for about a little over 1 hour as far as I remember.
The true shift lies in how we perceive the word 'midnight.'
In the past, midnight marked a time when most people were already deep in their night cycle, sound asleep (middle of the night). Today, however, it often serves as a subtle reminder that it might be time to head to bed-though many end up doomscrolling instead.
Doomscrolling? Is that the term for internet addiction now?
That's what I m doing now
@@dustbin5044 Social media addiction.
The internet was never addictive before the social media giants and their algorithms (tiktok (the worst), instagram, facebook, youtube, etc) started their evil tactics.
Yup. 1am here, and I'm in bed for an early night after a long day!
Great video, I was discussing this with my parents recently, not many people know about this, and it can help relax us all a bit to know it's not that uncommon to wake up at night.
This is very normal in the Middle East with many people waking up before dawn for the first prayer, wash up and walk to the mosque for the dawn prayer which takes only a few minutes, socialize for a few minutes more, walk back home, and sleep for another couple of hours. Some of us have three-phasic sleep where there is a first sleep, then the watch which is the dawn prayer, sleep again, then a siesta in the early afternoon for about an hour give or take. The total sleep time is 6-9 hours depending on age and natural personal variations.
Yes Tahajjud Is "The Watch" and the siesta is Qayloola MaaShaaAllah. Alhamdulillah for the Sunnah.
That actually sounds great!
even just beyond religion, culture or tradition it makes a lot of sense in a place like the middle east where it's usually VERY hot during the day. You get up very early in the morning, when it's just starting to get light out but it's still cool - so you're able to actually do stuff outside before it starts to get too hot. Then go back inside for a nap once it starts to get really hot. When i was in california 6-9am was pretty nice out but once it got to like 10ish it started getting really hot until about 4. you want to maximize your awake time in general so staying up a bit late when it's cool out during the evening and night makes sense as well.
Stop trying to shoehorn your irrelevant death cult in the middle of science. Don't you have goats to herd or assault, ahmad?
Basically the muslim world not just the middle east
Dude I actually was curious about this subject as I have sleep troubles but you took soo much time to get to the point and diluted the info into such a long time I fell asleep.
This is cool, i sleep like this and thought I had a sleep issue.........
Me, too. Embracing it would lower stress & therefore cortisol.
Same
Are you Gaelic?
yes. i wake up for an hour almost every night
Same here, but mostly because I have to pee.
As a homemaker I am not bound by the tight schedule that effect most people. It's been almost ten years now that I have benefitted from biphasic sleep. During my awake time I would do research and write... it's amazing how many articles I read overnight were gone by morning. When we heated our house with a wood stove it was absolutely necessary to stoke the fire during the night and once you're up a cup of tea sounds soothing. It used to be that I was up for two hours every night but lately I've been able to go back to sleep after only one hour (and a cup of tea!)
That actually sounds really nice. I like being up at night when the rest of the world is asleep and I just have the world (or the house at least) to myself.
Same thing! I wake up to stoke the fire and have the world to myself before the husband and kids wake up. It's a magical time :)
My mother-in-law used to say that she had to get up at about 3am to put the porridge on to soak (no instant oats for her family). After a cup of tea and a read, or a bit of tidying, she would go back to bed and sleep until 6am, when she was up again to cook the porridge. That stretch in the middle of the night was the ONLY time she had to herself.
That's the sleep pattern I've had for years. And I'm watching your videos right now during "The Watch" time. It's interesting to know that I'm just copying what they did 1000 years ago.
Dr. Ekirch is currently a professor at Virginia Tech! Glad you brought some attention to his work!
I have had times when I had a completely free schedule.
I was getting tired much more tired quicker, woke up for a few hours, slept again.
I thought I just broke my sleep and tried so hard to fix it, but my body resisted.
This *could* explain quite a lot, actually.
For a long time I struggled with insomnia. And I would be so incredibly tired, even found my self falling asleep behind the wheel once. I also had terrible anxiety and depression due to the lack of sleep. But over the last couple of years I started going to bed at 7 to 8 PM. Sounds early but where I live in the winter it gets dark at 5pm. I usually wake up at 1:30am for about an hour then fall back to sleep till 4:30 or 5 am. Then I get to work by 6am. Since I started this routine my anxiety, depression, and insomnia all went away. I also started dreaming again, or at least I now remember my dreams. Usually on the second sleep. For anyone struggling with sleep I would recommend trying it out.
This has helped my insomnia too.
I sleep for about 2hrs before work and about 2hrs after. If I try to sleep for longer, I can’t. This seems to work a lot better than trying to get 4hrs in one go.
A possible reason why you remember your dreams on the 2nd sleep. A normal sleep cycle is around 90 mins and we have several of these a night. We usually dream towards the end of that 90 mins. If you 2nd sleep is only around 2 hours, you may have 30 mins to drift off properly and you may wake at the end of one of these cycles and therefore be more likely to remember the dream.
This is me exactly, my body's natural rythym is to get very sleepy around 7:30 - 8PM, if I ignore it due to modern social reasons, I often wind up going to sleep very late and don't get great sleep. If I paay attention and go to sleep then, I wake up in the early morning hours around 12:30. I will be up for a couple hours and then ho back to sleep for a final 3 hours, waking up early and almost always feeling completely refreshed. The difference in how well-rested I feel is stark.
@@jonathanh761you’ve described me as well. I pushed through the 8pm sleepiness thinking that it would cause me to wake up ridiculously early (2-3am) which then caused me not to be able to go back to sleep again until 4-5am. If I went to sleep at 4-5am again I would wake up 9-10am, and feel guilty coz I have kids to care for and it meant my partner would need to do the morning shift. But if I pushed through the 9pm sleepiness, thinking that I needed to go to sleep later so I time that 8/9hrs correctly and I would avoid the 2am wake up, I end up getting a second wind and be wide awake till 1/2am anyway.
I’m gonna try to embrace biphasic sleeping coz the alternative is sleeping medication 😩
I love a nap during the day. I also like the quiet of nighttime.
Biphasic sleep would be very useful if you needed to keep a fire going like many early tribes would. Never quite letting it go out and waking up in the night for an hour or so to tend the fire.
As someone who suffers from sleep apnea, this is refreshing to hear. I thought I was waking up in the night from lack of oxygen, but it was always around 1am-2am on the dot even with CPAP. I've been doing lots of tests with doctors trying to figure out why lol and now I find out it might be natural 😂.
I have sleep apnea too, but central sleep apnea. I CONSTANTLY wake up within an hour of suddenly knocking out due to sleepiness. When I check the CPAP data, I have clear airway (central apnea) episodes typically right before being roused awake.
So I know it's partly due to the CSA, but now I'm curious about the biphasic portion of sleep as well.
After 120 years, you're telling me now sleeping towards the wall is wrong??
I guess so
Kkkkkkkkkk
I sleep on my left side towards the wall also. I can't sleep on my back, if I do I can't get up in the morning. It hurts to bad.
@@robertw31968 If I fall asleep on my back I will lucid dream and it drives me insane, even if I get on my back in the middle of my sleep somehow I feel it and turn to my side, I hate sleeping on my back.
I mean if you're 120 years old I'd say you're not doing a single thing wrong.
I've been accidentally doing this most of my life. I wake up every night around 2:30-3am, go downstairs, eat something, watch a little TV and to back to bed lol.
Bruh, i do the same thing!! Exactly.
Damn u are a genius
When I was pregnant, I would wake up at exactly 320 every night not particularly hungry or active, but definitely unable to sleep until about seven maybe 6:45 if I was lucky. Even at the time it did not seem ideal. It did not feel ideal.
Thank you. You ignited my thinking. Sleep is an extremely valuable asset. It's not dependent on wealth, status, race or even age. The idea that we can optimize this asset on our own is empowering. The wealthiest humans alive can buy nice pillows and sheets, but they don't get more hours in a day. The extremely busy, successful worker may even get less sleep. Good to remember that we own and control the mighty human experience of sleep.
In the northern hemisphere we have winter, nights are long and cold. Everyone used wood fo cook and heat their homes. The fire would go out, or at least be just smoldering embers at the coldest time right before dawn if you dont throw a few more logs in halfway through the night. Biphasic sleep evolved to tend the fire, thats why it disappeared with gas and electric heat.
I pretty much do this. (I’m a shift worker so work starts at 1500) I like to get up and enjoy some peace before my family wakes up and so I’m often up at 5 or 6 in the morning(bed time is usually 0100) I have a tv in the carport so I have a coffee and a smoke and play with the dog. Then after the family leave for work or school I’ll grab a few more hour’s sleep. It’s mostly so I can at least see everyone or else I wouldn’t see my family for days since I’m home at midnight from work.
The information about bi-phasic sleep was not entirely lost. In a 1960s HS history books, I read about bi-phasic sleep. Businesses even reopened during this period of the night. Well, actually, I recall reading taverns re-opened. I took this to heart, as from teen years onward, I wake predictably at 4 a.m., sometimes awake for a couple of hours.
I see family life adversely affected by sitting up late working. Incessant electric light has caused a lot of change for the worse. Thanks for this video - it gives ideas for a way forward.
Partially retired and since the pandemic I turned into biphasic sleep and I truly believe it's been an improvement to my health and state of mind. I sleep approx from 10 to 4am, exercise, have breakfast, shower and go back to bed usually from 6 to 8. I strongly recommend trying it, if your schedule, and couple, make it possible!
I got little sleep the other night. I came home from work and could tell that I was zonked. So I went to bed at 4pm, and woke up at 7pm. Felt hungry so made something quick to eat, then sat down at the computer and lo and behold found this very apropos video from Thoughty2. I will be going back to bed in an hour or two and sleep until 4:30am when I will get back up, much refreshed, and get ready for work.
I don't always have time to do this (and never when I have to work 12 hours) but it seems to reset my body clock.
This show is fascinating in that there might be a real reason this pattern works so well for many people if they have an opportunity to experiment with their sleep pattern.
If it mitigates/minimizes insomnia, it's worth it.
I really love your videos! I have Narcolepsy & had always struggled with sleep/wake function. Your more recent videos especially, have the perfect sound pitch and calming voice to help me fall asleep when I need, as well as it also being entertaining enough to stay up when I need! I truly hope you understand how much of an accomplishment that is. Anywhoo, thank you for all that you do!
THIS EXPLAINS EVERY SLEEPING PROBLEM I'VE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! ALWAYS JUST AFTER MIDIGHT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM I JUST WOKE UP AND IT SEEMED TO RANDOM TO ME BUT NOW I UNDERSTAND!!!!!
Ho mah gahd! I've been sleeping biphasically for about 3 months now, not by choice. It happened out of seemingly nowhere, and I thought there was something wrong with me, but this makes me feel a lot better. Thank you for putting this together!
Having had a night to try this out, waking up as per usual for an hour or so is now less stressful and more relaxing knowing biphasic sleep was the norm 🤔
Many thanks for this insightful video 🙏
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This is gonna sound made up but I had to go to work early today, started work 6:30 AM, so I went to bed early, around 9:15PM and fell asleep pretty quickly and actually woke up at around 1 AM or 1:15 AM. It must have taken me 1.5 to 2 hours to get to sleep again at least. When I woke up at 1AM I wasn't too tired either but I wanted, as you said, to get back to sleep so that I wouldn't miss out on that sleep.
Though when my alarm did wake me up I was half dead pretty much so I guess it would work better when not starting work at 6:30.
This doesn't sound made up at all. I'm the same way now. I'll get to sleep typically near 9 pm, and I still wake around 2 am. before having to wake to go to work at around 5. Only difference is that it only takes around 10-15 min to go back to sleep
I have to wake up to pee.
That's every night for me
I work swing shifts where I work both days and nights in the same week, so my sleep patterns are crazy. I can be the same way as what you meantioned . Sleep early for 4 solid hours then wake up. And then fall back asleep for a few more.
My childhood best friend is a professional athlete along side working a normal white collar job 9-5 job. He sleeps from 9pm to 1am. Runs 10km. Sleeps another few hours and wakes up to work from home. After work goes to the gym again or does training.
He's been preaching this sleeping schedule for years as more natural. I guess it makes sense.
I am a biphasic sleeper. And I had never heard of it until this video. I just thought I was weird. Every single night I wake, then after an hour or two sleep again. Every night. Thanks a lot to tell me i am not weird and this is normal. Thanks Again.🙏
This summer I was on vacation from May to September and was basically only training for an ironman and taking care of my son. I spent no time watching TV and only in the morning at breakfast I was watching some TH-cam videos. So I did not get distracted by artificial light very much. I got to a pattern of sleeping three times a day. I fell asleep at about 1 AM, sometimes later (I always was a night person, and now it's confirmed without ariticial light) got up at 7 AM and had breakfast, then I had about 30 to 60 min sleep between 9 and 12AM, after that I had my first sports session. Afterwards I had lunch and another 60 to 90 min sleep before I had my second sports session.
So I slept quite much but after some time I really needed my two "naps". Before that time I could handle weeks with only 3 - 5 hours sleep per day. Could not imagine to do that anymore.
My body's regeneration was really good, even after long and hard runs I could perform on the next day. My performance increased significantly over the period.
When days got shorter and I spent more time inside I was exposed to artificial light and the pattern went from 2 daytime sleeps to only one. And atm I only sleep at night because I had to go back to work :D I still miss my daily sleep and I am quite sure that if naping, right when you feel to do, would be more common, we would have way less health and obesity problems in our societies.
I had so much time because my military service is coming to an end and after lots of hours, days and weeks away from home I got quite some overtime to spend before I can join a new job :D
The story from our grandparents would sound something like "you kids are so lazy, back in my day we would wake up to do more stuff before going back to sleep...."
On top of that, deep sleep cycles are longer at the start of a sleeping phase. As you sleep longer, they get shorter (and the REM cycles get longer, increasing the chance that you remember your dreams when you wake up). The implication here, is that it might actually give you more deep sleep if you wake up and fall asleep again. REM can feel exhausting (and last time I checked, we aren't even quite sure about what it's for, just some hypotheses about memory consolidation, it's not like we can actually verify that inside the mind).
My children are grown and out on their own. My husband is deceased, and I live alone. I currently have biphasic sleep patterns, and I like it this way. I initially thought I had irregular sleep patterns due to aging, but it's nice to know my sleep patterns are normal.
I can not believe I am watching this video! Today was on the last day of my holiday in Bali and I had to leave the hotel at 6:20am for the airport.
I went to bed at 9pm, then I woke ip at 1am.
I was too awake to go directly to sleep, so I played in my phone for about 45min. I then packed my suitcase, had a shower and shave, it was then about 3am. I set my alarm for 6am, then turned of the light and went to sleep.
I woke up to my alarm and with way more energy than I usually do, and it lasted all day long, right now in fact!
i just sleep when im tired. no matter the time, no matter how long its for.
Must be retired then lol
@@thedoomslayer5863 i wish lol
Hopefully not on the highway 🤣🤣
I don't sleep when I am tired, I sleep when I am done!
The ''Chill'' part of ''Netflix and chill'' 😂
Had me rolling
“Swing by, and we’ll kick it by the fire while a bard spits some tales.”
She just receives a message tied to a pigeon: “Thou up?”
😂
I live in the US and have been on a biphasic sleep pattern for years now. I also generally have vivid dreams and feel well rested after waking up from first or second sleep. This was a very interesting video and thank you for making this!
At sixty (tomorrow actually), I’ve started biphasic sleeping recently. The “awake” hours filled with TH-cam videos that I can fall back asleep to without worry about missing anything from a narrated story.
Happy birthday in advance
Happy birthday Roger, hope you have a great day.
@@uchennaobike9574 Thank you.
@@SiFi5478 Thank you.
Happy birthday! Congrats on living long enough to be able to function based on what's right for you and your body rather than whats right for your employer/work/etc.
I hope i see it one day!
... i hope we all do!
My panic attacks beginning around 1:30-3am have made me a biphasic sleeper. And I have to say that once I started it's gotten better. Less frequent panic attacks and my body feels better.
So, are you saying you regularly have a panic attack every night at that time? And once you accepted that and just got up rather than try to fall back asleep, it eased the anxiety itself? Do I have that right?
@@audreymuzingo933 yo momma
@@audreymuzingo933 sounds like night terrors.
@@audreymuzingo933yes i assume that’s what he meant. It actually works
Its a good day when you drop a video
Very good.
On a related aside, one of the great difficulties that dogs any study of the past is we never discuss or record 'normal'. The result is our meager understanding of the past is largely based on what was considered 'not normal' and the potentially wholly incorrect assumptions that 'normal' doesn't change. Indeed this important issue is rely ever considered.
The schedule of Medieval monastery life followed biphasic sleep and it is very well documented in treaties about how to lead a monastic life. They woke up in the middle of the night for prayers and went back to sleep again. We always just assumed it couldn't have been the norm for lay people.
While a young man, I used to go straight three days without sleep. I’d deprive until exhaustion would take me down for a whole 24 hours or more. Up to now I still have nights when I go to sleep, wake up in the middle of the night, full of energy and ideas which I’d work on things I wanted and sleep after! It’s a different experience, trust me!
This just reminded me of something, I completely changed my habits by finding out book called Health and Beauty Mastery by Julian Bannett. It has been censored.
I heard about that book before, thanks for sharing
Where can we find this book?
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This explains a _lot_ about my sleep patterns! I'm almost 43 and outside of sickness, I have never been able to sleep a straight 7-8 hours in my life. After about 6 hours I keep waking up with horrible dreams and disturbing nightmares until I just give up and get up but after an hour or two I can go back to sleep and get a good 3 or 4 more hours in. I had no idea biphasic sleep was even a concept but it makes so much sense to my sleep patterns.