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   From: davidelanNOSPAMMM@hotmail.com   
      
   Can you recollect the name of the researcher that conducted the study?   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   Davide.   
      
      
      
      
      
   John D wrote:   
   > I was listening to a radio program called "while you were out" recently,   
   > they mentioned that until the industrial age, when time became much more   
   > regimented and scarce,  people actually had two sleeps, the first, deep   
   > sleep interrupted by a period of wakefulness known as "the watch" which   
   > lasts a couple of hours, then the final few hours of dream sleep.   
   >   
   > A sleep researcher conducted a study in which he controlled the use of   
   > artificial light with his subjects,  not letting them watch TV or read or   
   > use lights after dusk or before dawn.   He found that for the first couple   
   > of weeks they slept a lot, catching up on what he called the sleep deficit.   
   > Then they all (independantly) settled into the same pattern,  two sleep   
   > periods separated by a period of complete wakefulness, when the subject was   
   > alert, although completely relaxed.   
   >   
   > Once this sleep pattern had been achieved, the subjects began to score   
   > higher on memory retention, acuity and happiness tests.   
   >   
   > -JD   
   >   
      
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