01-31-2014, 04:59 PM
C(-)ris wrote:
Naturally? I would stay up till about 3am and fall asleep almost immediately and not get up until 11am or noon. So that is about 8 hours. Unfortunately, I have to get up around 7am which means going to bed at 11pm, which always takes a while to actually fall asleep. Even after getting up at 7am in the morning all week.
the exact situation in my life, too. something about 3am whenever I have more than a few days off in a row; I think I developed this habit in college, as I was sort of a morning person up to that point in my life.
for the OP's question, this is a HUGE topic of interest in the research world, with some theories showing that the modern construct of sleeping 8 hours in a row is not "natural" and that humans may have been meant to sleep twice per day and not all at once.