Our Ancestors Slept Crazy Differently Than We Do

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This may come as a surprise, but mankind hasn’t always snuggled up between the sheets and snoozed for a solid eight hours before starting over the next day. In fact, as a species, we’ve had quite a few iterations of our sleeping patterns. If you cohabitated with one of your 200-year old ancestors today, you would definitely have to ask, “WTF are you doing?!” But such is the nature of evolution, right? Check out the infographic below on how human sleep habits have progressed throughout the centuries.

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To view the rest of the infographic (it’s a lengthy one), visit the Online Mattress Review’s website. You’ll be able to learn about why we even sleep in the first place, how much sleep we need at different stages of life, how sleeping habits vary across the world and more.

Sweet dreams!