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Have sleep patterns always been the same? I read recently that in the past few hundred years the eight hour overnight was not the norm and people would get up in the middle of the night and spend time together before returning to sleep. Is there truth to this?

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Have sleep patterns always been the same? I read recently that in the past few hundred years the eight hour overnight was not the norm and people would get up in the middle of the night and spend time together before returning to sleep. Is there truth to this?	5025