Post #2465324
2026-01-18 10:03 UTC
Replies (10)
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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-01-18 10:10
Being awake at night is just normal for me.
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@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2026-01-18 11:23
Yeah, in fact there's a lot of evidence that biphasic/segmented sleep was quite common through history. It isn't really until the industrial revolution and long artificially strict working days that things shifted towards a single longer sleep period being more common.
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@robocall@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 10:18
No, you're supposed to stay up until 3am when you need to wake up at 7am
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@fizzle@quokk.au 2026-01-18 10:59
I do, it's awful honestly. I can follow a strict diet all day, no problem. However, when I wait up at 1am it's hard to explain, like I've already given in so I can just go ahead and eat whatever.
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@HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-18 16:00
Good god i wish i slept through the night
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@AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 2026-01-19 03:32
If I'm stuck spending my entire afternoon at work, then I'm going to take back my free time by spending it in the peace and quiet of the night. I've never been a morning person anyways.
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@other_cat@piefed.zip 2026-01-18 21:55
Plenty of people have told you 'yes' but I wanted to just say that this meme resonates with me, not because I wake up in the middle of the night, but because I've developed a really bad habit of eating about 1-2 hours before bed on snacks. I know it's a habit and not just being hungry because I've been still-full from dinner and went "This is about when I'd be having a snack" and suddenly I want one. Not having late night snacks really is the best way to break that habit but yeah the meme is a mood.
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@jaybone@lemmy.zip 2026-01-18 14:28
Why do birds suddenly appear?
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@Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2026-01-18 15:41
Yeah, I’ve got a toddler
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@JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-01-18 11:26
Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea. I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note 'the second sleep'. He basically posited that it's likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep. [Article](https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2025/11/03/why_its_normal_to_get_up_in_the_middle_of_the_night_1144853.html) talking about it. Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven't read much of homer or Virgil so i can't personally confirm or deny that.