<story><title>The medieval habit of &apos;two sleeps&apos; (2022)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>So your weekday evening social life is non existent?</text></item><item><author>buserror</author><text>I do that a lot these days. I went to bed around 8:30pm, woke at 4am... It&amp;#x27;s 6:50 now and I&amp;#x27;ve done a lot of work! It&amp;#x27;s nice, quiet, I just really crack on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting for 8am, then feed + walk the dogs, then I&amp;#x27;ll go back to bed for 1h or a bit more (tops), and it&amp;#x27;ll still be early when I wake up again.
Most of my colleagues will show up around 10 with bleary eyes while I&amp;#x27;ve done most of the stuff I wanted to do already!&lt;p&gt;... So that gives me a lot of time for a good walk, or tinkering etc in the afternoon.&lt;p&gt;I used to be a &amp;#x27;night owl&amp;#x27; really, going to bed at 2am; but I realized I was never really terribly efficient until about lunchtime the following day, while I was also wasting my time in the evening for no real reason. AND wasting the short winter day at my desk.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, well, I got the whole day to myself!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peebeebee</author><text>Not OP, but I&amp;#x27;m almost the same.&lt;p&gt;If you have (young) kids, it&amp;#x27;s non existent either way.&lt;p&gt;Now I go to sleep at the same time my kids do, around 9PM. 
My social life is during noon. My lunch-time is 2.5 hours instead of the usual 40min. During that time I go to the gym, have lunch with my wife, do some shopping, go to the barber,...&lt;p&gt;I can recommend it. More sunlight, more movement, no evening binging, no hanging in the couch, no useless late-night phone scrolling, no tired mornings, better quality time with the family...</text></comment>
<story><title>The medieval habit of &apos;two sleeps&apos; (2022)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>So your weekday evening social life is non existent?</text></item><item><author>buserror</author><text>I do that a lot these days. I went to bed around 8:30pm, woke at 4am... It&amp;#x27;s 6:50 now and I&amp;#x27;ve done a lot of work! It&amp;#x27;s nice, quiet, I just really crack on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting for 8am, then feed + walk the dogs, then I&amp;#x27;ll go back to bed for 1h or a bit more (tops), and it&amp;#x27;ll still be early when I wake up again.
Most of my colleagues will show up around 10 with bleary eyes while I&amp;#x27;ve done most of the stuff I wanted to do already!&lt;p&gt;... So that gives me a lot of time for a good walk, or tinkering etc in the afternoon.&lt;p&gt;I used to be a &amp;#x27;night owl&amp;#x27; really, going to bed at 2am; but I realized I was never really terribly efficient until about lunchtime the following day, while I was also wasting my time in the evening for no real reason. AND wasting the short winter day at my desk.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, well, I got the whole day to myself!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>romanovcode</author><text>I would imagine everyone who is 35+ with family has no evening social life. Or am I missing something?&lt;p&gt;Another question, at some point in your life - do you even want an evening social life?</text></comment>