The idea that 8 hours of unbroken #sleep at night is natural is a culturally conditioned myth. I've got a number of posts on sleep. In particular, I call your attention to this passage which I quote from M. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses:
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/search?q=sleep
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#sleep "Before the introduction of factory shift work, Americans enjoyed a range of sleeping practices, most commonly two nightly periods of rest [plus] daytime naps. The new sleeping regimen—eight ... hours of sleep ...—led to the pathologization of other ways of sleeping.
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