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So let's get right into it. Today we are talking about

sleep and the way people slept before the modern period. There's a wonderful book called At

Days Close, Night in Times Past, and I've talked about it before on this channel. I'm kind of a little bit obsessed

with sleep. I've always been a little bit obsessed with sleep. But, you know, as I go through,

like, the paramedipause and, like, sleep gets more elusive as I get older and stuff like that,

it's become something that I think about even more and how to get sleep and how to sleep

through the night better and all that. Like, it's weird

when you're in your 20s and before you have kids and your 30s, you just don't think about

sleep that much. Well, you think about like going out and partying and like not getting

sleep and stuff. And then something shifts. I swear, it's like when middle age hits and you

suddenly just become obsessed with your sleep and like, how are you getting sleep and all of the stuff. And it kind of starts when you have a baby and you're like obsessed with their sleep and they're sleeping through the night. And then it shifts over to you. So I'm in that phase right now of my life where I'm like obsessed with my sleep. I'm protecting my sleep and like making sure I get enough sleep and blah, blah, blah,

blah. So I'm very interested in how people slept in the past. And it might actually blow your mind

a little bit to know that people did not always lay down for eight hours at once and think that

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