I just read an interesting article at BBC suggesting that until modern times we did not assume that a ‘good’ sleep was 8 uninterrupted hours, but that the concept of ‘second sleep’ was widely acknowledged in Western culture:
A doctor’s manual from 16th Century France even advised couples that the best time to conceive was not at the end of a long day’s labour but “after the first sleep”, when “they have more enjoyment” and “do it better”.
Ekirch found that references to the first and second sleep started to disappear during the late 17th Century. This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.
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By the 1920s the idea of a first and second sleep had receded entirely from our social consciousness.
This certainly lines up with how I sleep these days … usually wake up for a while around 2-2:30 and then back to sleep until between 6 and 7.
