> From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora> > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:39:41 -0400 > > I heard this, this morning. Still think insomnia is a problem when you wake up > 3 or 4 hours before you have to get ready for work and never fall back asleep > or fall asleep 30 minutes before you have to get up. That's when I don't love > sleeplessness. I usually take a little more caffeine on days like that to compensate. Thankfully, the number of those kind of days is small -- maybe once every 1 to 2 months. Most of the time, it's only 1 to 2 hours. In general, I stay in bed for 9 hours on the assumption that I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night. > On Oct 17, 2015, at 1:44 PM, http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert) wrote: > > ...or, how I learned to stop worrying and love sleeplessness. > > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/16/sleep-study-on-modern-day-hunter-gatherers-dispels-notion-that-were-wired-to-need-8-hours-a-day/