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I found the first half of the reading to be very interesting and very thought provoking. The excerpt says that there were two sleeps and between them people woke up and had multiple activities that they did in this time but they also contemplated their dreams. That made me wonder how much introspection we in this modern day could accomplish if we did the same. We could learn so much about ourselves with the new knowledge of when we have dreams and why we have them. I was also interested in the question posed at the beginning of the reading about why humans woke up for the two sleeps. It made me think that maybe its God's way of giving the people a way to understand themselves before we as a species evolved into the more knowledgeable ones we are now. I found it interesting that the rich people tended to stay up later because they could afford candles whereas the poor went to bed with the darkness because they could not afford candles. There are very clear differences between then and now but it is still evident that ones social class still affects sleep and ones ability to sleep well.
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