Last night, as fairly frequently, I experienced what medieval French society called a “dorveille” — an hour or two of wakefulness in the middle of the night, between two periods of sleep.
This seemingly was a fairly common phenomenon for our agriculturalist ancestors. Perhaps it’s less common now because electric lights keep us up later, compressing our sleeping time?
I usually read during my white midnights. Do you have dorveilles? What do you do during them?
@BobDevney My sleep looks like this, and I just stay in bed so I can go back to sleep. The alternative - for me - is to stay awake all night.
@BobDevney I wear an Oura ring. It monitors sleep and fitness.
[STRUGGLES WITH ALL MY POWER TO RESIST ... MUST ... NOT ... GIVE ... IN (FAILS FAILS FAILS)
So your ring "monitors sleep and fitness."
And in the darkness binds them?
@BobDevney Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much what it does. But there's way more than 20 of these, so that's an extra boost of power.
@ScottSoCal
Wow, cool sleep graph. What generates it?
And sorry about those sleepless nights you referenced. Sound like sheer torture.
At least your graph for this night shows only 43 minutes awake, so your just-lay-there-strategy worked!