NY Times: Sleeping in Pieces

Sweetgum
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:36:10 +0000

At first, this sounded to me as if insomnia hired a new PR agency. Isn’t waking up in the middle of the night and watching back-to-back episodes of “The Golden Girls” until you’re drowsy again unhealthy? Shouldn’t we strive for eight uninterrupted hours of blissful slumber? Surely waking up in the middle of the night should be worried over as a problem, not scheduled like a lunch date.

Experts and former insomnia sufferers beg to differ. In The Times Magazine in 2016, Jesse Barron wrote a letter of recommendation for segmented sleep. He learned to love the hours between snooze segments that the French called dorveille, or wakesleep.

Maybe it is a spin on it, but sounds like for some people they do like to sleep this way and advocate it for others. I can’t do it because I can’t go back to sleep. Once I’m fully awake that’s all she wrote. It might be nice to be able to go back to sleep or to nap, but I just don’t work that way.