How Did Humans Used to Sleep?

You fell asleep last night, and you thought nothing of it. You brushed your teeth, maybe scrolled your phone for a bit, turned off the light, and eventually drifted off. Eight hours, maybe seven. You woke up, maybe a little groggy, poured yourself a coffee, and got on with it. Normal. Completely, boringly normal. 💡 Curiosity Understood: The World is Stranger Than You Think New video every week. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    / @curiosityunderstood   🎥 IN THIS VIDEO → Why the sleep you think is natural isn’t the sleep your body actually evolved to have → The historian who found 500 references to something nobody remembers anymore → The controlled experiment that proved your body still knows how to sleep differently → The hormone that surges in the middle of the night and creates a state most of us never experience → Why the anxiety about waking up might be causing more damage than the waking itself 📚 SOURCES — A. Roger Ekirch, Virginia Tech — At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, American Historical Review 2001 — Thomas Wehr, National Institute of Mental Health — Segmented sleep experiment early 1990s — Russell Foster, University of Oxford — Circadian neuroscience and sleep research — Carl Jung — Hypnagogic state and psychological frameworks — Harvard University — Dream recall and quiet wakefulness research 📚 BUSINESS ENQUIRIES [email protected] #sleep #psychology #curiousfacts #experiments #insomnia