Last night, as fairly frequently, I experienced what medieval French society called a “dorveille” — an hour or two of wakefulness in the middle of the night, between two periods of sleep.

This seemingly was a fairly common phenomenon for our agriculturalist ancestors. Perhaps it’s less common now because electric lights keep us up later, compressing our sleeping time?

I usually read during my white midnights. Do you have dorveilles? What do you do during them?

#Sleep #SleepDisturbance