As we know, sleep plays a lot on our mental and physical health and when we spend a bad night we are directly confronted with problems of concentration and stress. Generally, we estimate a night of "good sleep" at 8 am non stop to feel good in everyday life and properly recover from the tiredness of the day before.

Only scientists and historians have discovered that originally we are not made to sleep at one time, but rather in two stages. Asked by the American Huffington Post, the historian Roger Ekirch who practices at Virginia Tech University revealed after long studies on the phenomenon (from medical records, archives and diaries) that what he calls "biphasic" sleep was common at the time and this practice seems ultimately best suited to the human body. She would have been noticed in Europe, Latin America, but also in the Middle East and Australia. A habit changed over time due to daily changes.

SLEEP IN TWO TIMES, HOW TO DO IT?

Two-phase sleep consists of dividing the sleep time into two phases of sleep with a waking period of a few hours in between. The waking period allows you to indulge in more or less intense activities, to reflect, to meditate, or simply to lie down, but awake! A sleep method apparently in the mornings before, that we imagine difficult to put in place in our daily life, since it would be almost to program the alarm clock and to force a little to be sure to respect the method.

SLEEP BIPHASÉ, IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE?

Can having a split sleep be beneficial on a daily basis if you have never used it? An experiment conducted in the 1990s showed that in the absence of electronic devices, one preferred to sleep twice. Volunteers would have tried the experiment for a month by spending 14 hours every day in the dark (a timing corresponding to the time spent in the dark at the time when there was not yet electricity) with a period awake one to two hours between the two phases of sleep. Just like the Miracle Morning, maybe it's enough to get used to it?

Nowadays, when the brain is constantly challenged by technologies, the importance of effective sleep is a recurring problem in trying to find a balance between real rest and intense activity because artificial lights suggest brain that it is still day when you have to sleep.

According to the study by Roger Ekirch, sleep two-phase explain the insomnia: the latter would be a trace of this rhythm of sleep previously frequent ...