Segmented Sleep

In Ekrich's article, Ekrich links both religion and medical accounts to early sleeping patterns. Ekrich introduces segmented sleep as one of the early sleeping patterns that humans used to prioritize. Ekrich quotes medical books from the 15th century as some of the first accounts of segmented sleep, "for better digestion and more tranquil repose, to lie on their right side during 'the fyrste slepe' and 'after the fyrste slepe turne on the lefte syde'" (366). I found this interesting, because as for myself, I  never wake up on the same side I went to sleep on. This is very far fetched, but what if our body does this subconsciously. Furthermore, Ekrich links early religious practices by monks "[rising] after midnight for the recital of verses and psalms, this like other regulations of the Benedictine order had spread to growing numbers of Frankish and German monasteries." (366). This early religious practice can definitely be compared to today's religious practices of reading our bible or praying before going sleep. Comparing early practices to now, we see some similarities, we have just evolved since these practices first came.