In terms of a change in religious view and even religion in sleep, I think that overall since we have had "one sleep" not a segmented sleep, we have grown apart from our faith. When people back in the pre-industrial times had their hour of wakefulness, they prayed and reflected on what their dreams were meant to mean from God, what the Lord was telling them through dreams. Even though this can be disputed, I feel like because of this segmented sleep there was more of an opportunity to be close with ones faith. There was also more emphasis on it. Why just sit there when you could be improving your life and faith. Much like how the author tells the story of how St. Benedict required his monks to rise and recite Psalms (page 366), there is a sense of necessity in the segmented sleep to make something of this spare time.
Ekirch, A. Roger. “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 2 (2001): 343-386. JSTOR. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651611>.
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