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Someone else suggested podcasts also. Great tip, thanks! Got to think it may summon sleep faster than reading with lamps or screens.
I had a 2-hour dorveille last night, as it happens. Spent mostly on Kindle, trying to push through on a really well-reviewed fantasy book, with content right up my alley…that I'm just not enjoying at all. And has blocked me for weeks from getting on to something I'd like better.
Yes, that's the "dorveille" I talked about. Interesting article, thanks! Hadn't seen its rediscovery credited to 1 man—Roger Ekirch—before.
About commonly sleeping in same bed: As a young lawyer in the 1830s and 1840s, Abraham Lincoln rode the circuit from town to town in rural Illinois. Lawyers & the judge often shared a bed or beds. Everyone else wanted to sleep in the middle for warmth, but Lincoln favored an end position…so he could read.
Huh, interesting. Thanks! I knew about the sleep scientists, and as I indicated first learned about dorveilles from medieval history. But hadn't thought about anthropology.
Fieldwork in bedrooms must be interesting.
Sorry for delayed response; real life intrudes ...
"Brood" — oh I know that feeling. Although it's not so much common in my dorveilles as in the times when I can't get to sleep to start the night.
Haven't tried the podcast trick: sounds good, thanks! Because reading involves light, which must make some contribution to wakefulness. Or if I knew Braille ...