For My Fellow Occasional Insomniacs
This heartened me, courtesy of the New York Times, circa last quarter:
… we now also know that pre-industrial families commonly experienced a “broken” pattern of sleep, though few contemporaries regarded it in a pejorative light. Until the modern age, most households had two distinct intervals of slumber, known as “first” and “second” sleep, bridged by an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. Usually, people would retire between 9 and 10 o’clock only to stir past midnight to smoke a pipe, brew a tub of ale or even converse with a neighbor.
Then the piece goes on to talk about mid-sleep sex. I blush.
(Why am I so wrapped up in old news? Perhaps because I’m not ready to stomach today’s. Or today’s.)
That's called a disco nap!