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  1. @WWarped

    Yes, that's the "dorveille" I talked about. Interesting article, thanks! Hadn't seen its rediscovery credited to 1 man—Roger Ekirch—before.

    About commonly sleeping in same bed: As a young lawyer in the 1830s and 1840s, Abraham Lincoln rode the circuit from town to town in rural Illinois. Lawyers & the judge often shared a bed or beds. Everyone else wanted to sleep in the middle for warmth, but Lincoln favored an end position…so he could read.

    #sleep #SleepDisturbance #readers

  2. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    Huh, interesting. Thanks! I knew about the sleep scientists, and as I indicated first learned about dorveilles from medieval history. But hadn't thought about anthropology.

    Fieldwork in bedrooms must be interesting.

    #Sleep #SleepDisturbance #Dorveilles

  3. @stjaerna

    Sorry for delayed response; real life intrudes ...

    Agreed, "dorveille" was a magnificent find for me just on its own. That satisfied feeling you get when "they've got a word for that."

    And the light it shines (ahem) onto medieval history was an added plus.

    Glad you're still staving off true insomnia!

    #Sleep #SleepDisturbance #Dorveilles

  4. Last night, as fairly frequently, I experienced what medieval French society called a “dorveille” — an hour or two of wakefulness in the middle of the night, between two periods of sleep.

    This seemingly was a fairly common phenomenon for our agriculturalist ancestors. Perhaps it’s less common now because electric lights keep us up later, compressing our sleeping time?

    I usually read during my white midnights. Do you have dorveilles? What do you do during them?

    #Sleep #SleepDisturbance