00:00For 30 days I'm going to be trying the forgotten medieval habit of two sleeps. So what is this
00:06experiment that I'm trying? For 30 days I am going to be going to bed at 9 p.m., waking
00:11up from 1 30
00:12to 3 30 in the morning, and then going back to sleep until 8 a.m. Now what are the
00:17rules of this
00:18experiment? Number one, no phone. This is the most fundamental rule. I cannot be looking at my phone
00:25in the night. Number two, no big light. The whole point of this is the pre-industrial age, no electrical
00:32lighting. I only use this lantern in the night. And rule number three, no to-do list items. Even
00:41though people in the medieval period might have used this as a time to get some things done
00:45productively, I am so entrenched in the must multitask, must get things done sort of mode
00:51that I'd really prefer to just see what can these hours be for me to spend time contemplatively.
00:57Part two of my medieval biphasic sleep experiment, 10 days into the 30 days. So the hardest part thus
01:04far has actually been going to bed on time. I am a total night owl, so I keep falling asleep
01:10at 11
01:10instead of 9 p.m., which means it's very unpleasant to wake up at 1 30 a.m. Usually each
01:16night I start
01:17by journaling. I'm not a big journaler, if that's a word, but this has actually been a really cool
01:22experience because that time during the night is just so quiet. It's been a lot easier to get my
01:28thoughts down on paper. And then once I'm done journaling, I work on writing some poetry. 1 30 to
01:343 30 in the morning is a fantastic period of time for writing poetry. In fact, many artists and composers
01:40would refer to it as the god hour because it was such a great period of time during the night
01:45for writing
01:46their best poetry.
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