{"id":7248,"date":"2017-08-30T17:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:33:42","slug":"roger-ekirchs-biphased-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/roger-ekirchs-biphased-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"roger ekirch’s biphasic | sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[two-fifths-first]tonight (central european time german 8.10 pm) national public radio \u2192 deutschlandfunk<\/a> will air my interview with the discoverer of the \u00bbfirst and second sleep\u00ab, a common sleep pattern before the industrial revolution. \u2192 roger ekirch<\/a>, history professor at virginia tech, became well known in the community of sleep scientists when in 2001 he published his findings in t<\/span><\/em>he American Historical Review under the title <\/i><\/span><\/em>„Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles“, followed by the book „At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past“<\/i>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

basically all he did was explore hundreds of documents, ranging back from medieaval days to the 19th century, which contained the long forgotten term „first sleep“. thomas wehr, a washington DC based neuroscientist, proved ekirch’s purely historic findings, when he conducted an experiment where the participants developed a segmented sleep pattern after a couple of weeks without electric lighting. the reason for me conducting the interview are ekrichs most recent findings (first sleep in russian texts) and his talk at the royal society of medicine in london. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

there are people who think his theory of the biphasic sleep are too good to be true and ask questions about whether the climate or distance from the equator contributed to different sleep patterns. ekirch indicated most recently that the segmented sleep was more or less independent from regional influences.
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\n[three-fifths]heute abend in der deutschlandfunk-sendung \u2192 aus kultur und sozialwissenschaften<\/a> l\u00e4uft mein beitrag \u00fcber den entdecker des \u201eersten und zweiten schlafs\u201c. \u2192 roger ekirch<\/a> 67j\u00e4hriger geschichtsprofessor an der technischen universit\u00e4t von virginia, fand vor etwa 20 jahren heraus, dass die meisten menschen vor der industriellen revolution nach dem abendessen zu bett gingen und einschliefen, dann um mitternacht wach wurden, eine weile wach blieben und schlie\u00dflich in den zweiten schlaf \u00fcbertraten, der bis zum morgen dauerte. anlass f\u00fcr das aktuelle interview mit ihm war, dass ekirch j\u00fcngst in weiteren sprachen das l\u00e4ngst vergessene wort des „ersten schlafs“ fand und gerade vor der royal socienty of medicine in london dar\u00fcber referierte. wenn das st\u00fcck gesendet ist, wird es nachh\u00f6rbar sein, auch hier.<\/p>\n

es gibt wissenschaftler, die ekirchs verd\u00e4chtig einfache these infrage stellen und zum beispiel die vermutung aufstellten, das schlafverhalten hinge weniger mit dem elektrischen licht als mit der ferne zum \u00e4quator zusammen. roger ekirch fand aber auch in zentralafrika und finnland, wo heute das durchschlafen \u00fcblich ist oder zumindest als erstrebenswert gilt, historische texte, die vom ersten und zweiten schlaf erz\u00e4hlen. au\u00dferdem belegte vor l\u00e4ngerem der amerikanische psychiater thomas wehr in einem experiment ekirchs erkenntnisse. er lie\u00df probanten vier wochen lang schlafen, wann und wie sie wollten, entzog ihnen aber das elektrische licht. mehr dazu heute abend um 20.10 uhr.[\/three-fifths]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      [two-fifths-first]tonight (central european time german 8.10 pm) national public radio \u2192 deutschlandfunk will air my interview with the discoverer of the \u00bbfirst and second sleep\u00ab, a common sleep pattern before the industrial revolution. \u2192 roger ekirch, history professor at virginia tech, became well known in the community of sleep scientists when in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-dramolette"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":"cf95b9cf0a43401abbd36b490fe79a91","server":"vg05.met.vgwort.de","url":"https:\/\/vg05.met.vgwort.de\/na\/cf95b9cf0a43401abbd36b490fe79a91"},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7266,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}