Catching Up On Sleep

This week, GamerDude talks about sleeping and dreaming. First, he talks about how his sleep habits have changed as he's gotten older, and how he used to be a stomach sleeper who now needs four pillows just to sleep on his back.GamerDude also talks about how peoples' sleep-patterns, in general, have changed over the centuries. He talks about segmented, or biphasic, sleep patterns, which were the default pattern for most people before the industrial revolution. People would sleep from just after dinner to midnight, wake for a couple of hours, then sleep again until dawn. Once the demands of society changed after the industrial revolution, biphasic sleeping essentially disappeared.GamerDude also talks about sleep patterns while working overnights, and how it's impossible to catch up on sleep once your sleep patterns are broken. He also talks about dreaming, from keeping a notebook to record your dreams, to the prophetic nature of some dreams.