Two Kids Put Me on a Two Sleep Schedule

I’m writing this at 2am, having already slept from 9pm to 1am. I will sleep again from 4am to 7am. This is apparently called “biphasic sleep”, which I first heard about in the 2022 article The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’. I had read that article with interest, because this has happened to me occasionally over the years: I’d fall asleep early, then wake up to spend a few hours restless before finally falling back asleep in the early morning hours. After reading that this used to be normal, I finally decided to just let it happen when it does, which is about two or three times a week.

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