Welcome back to another episode of Legacy. Peter, I'm so excited for our topic today.

Do you know why I'm so excited after my favorite thing in the entire world is to sleep.

I love a nice bed with a pillow. And at this time of you, and it's freezing cold outside,

it's time to hibernate, right? So we were thinking about wellness and thinking about

one of the ways in which people have thought about curing their physical illnesses, the depression

of the cold winter. Bed seems like quite a good place to start. I thought you were going to say

a hot water bottle because it's sacrilege to mention bed without a hot water bottle, in my opinion.

But you're a big hot water bottle person, aren't you?

You love clutching your hot water bottles.

I travel everywhere.

I sometimes even take them to restaurants if I feel like it's necessary.

And I have actually done a lot of work on sleep.

So in my book, decolonizing my body, I wrote basically a whole

chapter about sleep because it sounds very simple. And obviously, it's universal to the human

condition that we need it. But I learned there were a lot of things about sleep that I had

unlearned and that I think modern Western culture encourages some quite toxic ideas about rest and recharging. And again, these are things that I think modern Western culture encourages some quite toxic ideas about rest and recharging.

And again, these are things that I think the modern wellness movement is trying to tap back into

what's really common sense that the ancients knew well.

So I'm really looking forward to finding out what the ancients believed and knew about sleep

and how they practiced it, because it sounds very simple,

but there are so many different ways you can sleep.

Hello and welcome to a new episode of Legacy. I'm Peter Frank Aparne. I'm Afwa-Hirsch.

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