Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deep ...

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It was like this loud bang, and then I woke up, and then I started shaking,” Ashtyn Pitts said of the accident that caused ...

I know she loves her husband, but it feels like she abandoned what she believed to be with him,” a source said.

Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted several hours, separated by a gap of wakefulness for an hour or ...

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