2.- The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep
Read the article and answer the questions below.
* What is the thesis of the article?
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
* What's your opinion on the article?
* What's your opinion on the article?
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1.- It´s about the sleep habbits true history ´till now in our days.
ResponderEliminar2.- The results of an experiment with people living 14 hours a day in darkness and how theyre sleep habbits changed.
3.- that we don´t actually need 8 hours of continuos sleep.
4.- Lying awake could be good for you.
by: DAMARIS ANDRADE
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarTHEY SAID THAT THE EIGHT-HOUR ALEEP MAY BE UNNATURAL.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
THE ARTICLE TALKED ABOUT A PSYACHIATRIST CALLED THOMAS WERH WHO REALISED
AN EXPERIMENT WHERE SOME PEOPLE WHERE PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS FOR 14 HOURS EVERY DAY FOR A MONTH, AND THE PEOPLE CHANGED THEY SLEEP PATERNS FIRSTLY THE SLEEPT FOUR HOURS AND THEN WOKE FOR TWO HOURS BEFORE FALLING INTO A SECOND FOUR-HOUR SLEEP.
ALSO THE ARTICLE SAID THAT IN 2001 THE HISTORIAN ROGER EKIRCH PUBLISH A SEMINAL PAPER WHERE HE DRAWN FROM 16 YEARS OF RESEARCH, REAVEALING A WEALTH OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT HUMANS USED TO SLEEP TWO DISTINCT CHUNCKS, AND THE FIRST AND SECOND SLEEP STARTED TO DISA``EAR DURING LATE 17TH CENTURY
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
THAT IS NOT NECESSARY TO SLEEP 8 HOURS CONSECUTIVELY
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT IN THIS DAYS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SHOW SYMPTOMS LIKE STRESS, ANXIETY, ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE HAS GONE UP ALSO SAYS TO THAT IF THEY WALKING PERIOD BETWEEN SLEEPS THEY COULD REGULATE THE STRESS NATURALLY.
* What's your opinion on the article?
COULD BE TRUTH BECAUSE I HAD FELT THAT NECESSITY TO WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND SOME TIMES I GIVE ME TURS IN MY BED.
1.-It's about experiments that proves that isinnatural to sleep 8 hours in a row
ResponderEliminar2.-It shows the reults of a experiment in wich a group of people wer plunged into darkness for 12 hours every day,they slept four hours then woke up and later they slept again after doing an activity
3.-That we don't need to sleep 8 hours in arow and it's is normal to wake up in the middle of the night
4.-I think if it's proved with experiments and facts the is right, and is good to show this article to people who thinks is bad Lying awake and can't sleep
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarThe article says that the knowledge we have about what is the healthiest habit about the time we need to spend sleeping is a wrong argument.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
The experiment done by a phsychiatrist, which demonstrated that people in the experiment were distributing their sleep in two separated times; And doing activities between sleeps.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke? The article tries to proof that the eight-hour sleep is just a myth..
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
That the myth was done due to an industrial bennefit, and also is a basic conclusion to say that take a little time to think and relax while we can not sleep is good for health.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I think is good to know this kind of information cause it give us medical information, which could help our health and quality of life.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarIt´s about how most of people belives that is healthy to sleep eight hours, when in fact it isn´t true.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
A psychiatrist conducted an experiment with a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. And it took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
That people doesn´t need to sleep eight hours straight
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
It is normal if we wake up in the middle of the night, we sleep for four hours and wake up and back to sleep other four hours. We don´t have to be scare of it.
* What's your opinion on the article?
Personaly is very interesting, because I have always wondered why I wake up even twice in the middle of the night if the normal sleep is eight hours but now I know that it doesn´t affect my health at all.
What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarthe thesis is to sleep more than eight hours continuously is counterproductive to health and unnatural
What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?}
references to other studies in previous centuries, and some novels in which he speaks of habits that people had before the technological revolution
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
to wake up at midnight to perform other activities is as natural and sleep habits have been modified by new lifestyles
* What's your opinion on the article?
I had never thought of that, but it sounds very logical, many of the habits of contemporary societies have been modified with the evolution of technologies.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarIt is about lying awake could be far healthier than sleeping 8 hours continuosly and how we have changed our habits.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
An experiment which a psychiatrist realized in the 90's, where a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month and after that they began to change their sleeping pattern so they sleep 4 hours after they woke for 2 hours before falling into a second four-hours sleep. There are some novels which talk about this myth and historical evidences.
* What assumptions is the article trying to rebuke?
That the industrial revolution intensified that attitude by leaps and bounds, that to sleep 8 hours is just a myth where waking up during the night is part of normal human physiology.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
That to wake up in the middle of the night could be marvelous to regulate the stress, the anxiety. We could have as health as our ancestries and all the problems that actually have developed could lower. That is good to sleep one or twice time during the night and do things before you back to sleep.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I though that to sleep 8 hours continuosly was the best and it's good to know it so you could change your habits and to get a healthy life.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarIt is about the myth of sleep 8 hours and the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
The Psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. And also in 2001 the Historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published about historical evidence that the people used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
Sleep 8 hours is not necessary because it is just a myth.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
A lot of people wake up in the middle of night maybe because they have stress, are nervous or they have some problems to sleep.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I think that sleep is important for everybody and this article said that we need sleep 8 hours at night however some people don´t need sleep 8 hours maybe some of them need more or less that eight hours. So the most important think is sleep as time we need to get energy for the next day and recover our strength. But we have to relax because if we sleep correctly, we would be healthy and we get a good life style with much better habits.
1. What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarEight-hour sleep may be unnatural. Lying awake in the middle of the night could be good.
2. What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
People who were plunged into darkness, as experiment, for 14 hours every day for a month, shifted their sleeping patern to a segmented way.
A researcher argued that human body has a natural preference for segmented sleep.
Another researcher shares that when you wake up at night, you are experiencing a throwback to the bi-modal sleep pattern.
Exist a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
In modern life, the number of people who report anxiety, stress, depression, alcoholism and drug abuse has gone up, this is relationated with sleep disorders.
3. What assumptions is the article trying to rebuke?
That we need a consolidated block of 8 hours sleep.
4. What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
Human body has a natural segmented way to sleep, is part of normal human physiology. “So the next time you wake up in the middle of the night, think of your pre-industrial ancestors and relax. Lying awake could be good for you.”
5. What's your opinion on the article?
I think that the custom of sleep in a consecutive way will be so hard to change, because the life in the night has shifted, and this won´t go back.
Also I believe that there are a lot of sleeping habits, and people could adapt to them.
1.- what is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarwaking at midnight could be good and sleep 8 hours is something unnatural.
2.- what information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
the article give us an information about an experiment, which a group of people were into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. the scientists saw that the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for 4 hours, then woke for one hour before falling into a second 4- hour sleep.
3.- what assumptions is the article trying to rebuke?
that we don`t need to sleep 8 hours is just a myth.
4.- what are the most basic conclutions from the article?
the human has a particular way to sleep. and wake at midnight is something normal.
5..- whatps your opinion on the article?
well i think that is important to know this because then we are worried about we are wake at midnight or if we don`t sleep 8 hours is bad.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarThat the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
-That psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
-The historian Roger Ekirch published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
-A researcher argued that human body has a natural preference for segmented sleep.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
That we need sleep for eight consecutive hours.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
That the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural and some people wake up in the middle of night because they feel nervous or stress.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I don`t think it's unnatural sleep eight hours straight. I think it helps to have a better sleep, more energy during the day and a better quality of life.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarthe thesis of this article, is about the fact that a lot of people don`t have their eight hour sleep, and that this is something unnatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
-historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research
-Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
That what is often said that we need to sleep for 8 hours, it`s just a myth and that if in the middle of the night someone is awake it`s perfectly normal.
* What's your opinion on the article?
That a lot of people think that waking up betwwen sleep is bad, when in reason it`s not bad, it`s something thats normal. Besides that people have different sleeping habits.
1.- This article talk about our way for sleep because it says in other years the people used to sleep very much hours and then talk about people how doesn`t like to sleep at night.
ResponderEliminar2.- In the part how talk about the people were becoming increasingly time-conscious and sensitive to efficiency that says Roger Ekirch.
3.- About isn`t necesary sleep 8 hours
4.- Is not too necesary sleep 8 hours
5.- Is interesting for me because I learn somethings that I dont know like I didn`t know about paris was the first city how have light
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarit's about lying awake in the middle of the night, but say it could be good for you. Also about that growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
Psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month, and historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
That eight-hour sleep is just a myth.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
Isn'tnecesary sleep 8 hours.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I think this information importat to know which could help our to health and quality of life.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarA growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
it's a myth that we have to sleep 8 hours consecutives.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
it isn't necesary sleep 8 hour consecutives we can sleep 4 hours and wake up and then sleep other 4 hours
* What's your opinion on the article?
i know about it, and learned that is just a mechanism of brain to do things that we need like going to the bathroom or drink water.
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarThe sleep habbits are changed now days, the eight-hour sleep colud be unatural.
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
They used the science and the history to explain the thesis, they experimenting with human sleep behaviors and proof their idea.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
The main idea about the human needs to sleep eight-hour consecutives to keep the body healtly,however can be in two times according to experiment and the history.
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
The main conclution about the article is refuse the idea to sleep 8 hour consecutives; is more natural to sleep four hours, wake and sleep the other four hours for human.
* What's your opinion on the article?
I'm impressed! All the time I thought we need eight hours to hold the body and mind healty but is according to the article is better sleep four hours and later sleep the other half four hours. The history and the experiment showed that and maybe I could change my sleep habbits.
1. This article talk about sleeping habits and ways of the people today and in the past
ResponderEliminar2. The psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month, to get different results about sleeping habits
3. For more doctors still do not recognize a consolidated sleep eight hours can be unnatural
4. Most people tend to sleep 8 hours, although a segmented way, which makes that some insomnia spend some time, although these habits could be taken as naturally in the human
5. is interesting, because through studies like these you can learn more about our bodies and our habits and identify if somehow this unnatural acting our body or perhaps are present a condition that might be bad to our health
* What is the thesis of the article?
ResponderEliminarIt's about the sleep habbits and the way that it has changed
* What information is offered as proof or argument for such thesis?
Psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
* What assuptions is the article trying to rebuke?
We can sleep four hours and then another four hours, and don't eight hours consecutive
* What are the most basic conclutions from the article?
We don`t need to sleep 8 hours, and also sometime we wake up in the night, maybe because we have stress or we're nervous
* What's your opinion on the article?
I think that is more importante good, i mean with feel stress or nervous, and the time could be eight hours or four, wake up, and four hour more later.