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title: "The forgotten medieval habit of ‚two sleeps‘"
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published_at: "2022-01-29T22:35:19+00:00"
author: "Stefan Grund"
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# The forgotten medieval habit of ‚two sleeps‘

[Link →](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep)

> For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

Fun-fact: Ich las und poste dies, nachdem ich zuerst auf der Couch geschlafen habe und jetzt für meinen _zweiten Schlaf_ ins Bett umgezogen bin. (via [Ligne Claire](https://ligneclaire.de/links-29-januar-2022))