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Originally Posted by AzOther1
The best benefit (to me) is sleeping for 8 hours without waking up (22-06, generally). If I don't eat any, I will for sure wake up at 02 or 03 for 1-2 hours, which I really hate, even if I'm bonding with the dog out on the couch.
I've also noticed this benefit of smoking, and also this same sleep pattern when I don't. Not to derail an excellent thread, but it seems that that sleep pattern (sleep a few hours-up a while-sleep a few hours) was the norm for people before the advent of electric light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphas...lyphasic_sleep
"Historian A. Roger Ekirch has argued that before the Industrial Revolution, interrupted sleep was dominant in Western civilization. He draws evidence from more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern in documents from the ancient, medieval, and modern world. Other historians, such as Craig Koslofsky, have endorsed Ekirch's analysis.
According to Ekirch's argument, adults typically slept in two distinct phases, bridged by an intervening period of wakefulness of approximately one hour. This time was used to pray and reflect, and to interpret dreams, which were more vivid at that hour than upon waking in the morning. This was also a favorite time for scholars and poets to write uninterrupted, whereas still others visited neighbors, engaged in sexual activity, or committed petty crime.
The human circadian rhythm regulates the human sleep-wake cycle of wakefulness during the day and sleep at night. Ekirch suggests that it is due to the modern use of electric lighting that most modern humans do not practice interrupted sleep, which is a concern for some writers. Superimposed on this basic rhythm is a secondary one of light sleep in the early afternoon."