I thought that this following new article on sleep would be interesting to
some.
http://www.economist.com/intelligentlife/wellbeing/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6909483
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| But a new, contrarian school of thought is emerging. The eight-hours
| mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy, says Neil
| Stanley,
| head of sleep research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit at
| the University of Surrey in Britain. He believes that everyone has their
| own individual ?sleep need? which can be anywhere between three and 11
| hours. ?If you?re a three-hour-a-night person, you need three; if you're
| 11, you need 11.? To find out, he says, simply sleep until you wake
| naturally, without the aid of an alarm clock. Feel rested? That?s your
| sleep need.
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