• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Also, eight hours is a modern invention! Throughout most of human history we slept several times a day, rather than just once.

    I’m really liking siestas these days and can’t go back to a single eight hour block.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Absolutely. The 8-hour sleep is probably just a marketing invention, related to modern electric light. In pre-modern Europe it was common to get up and do housework in the middle of the night.