For Americans struggling to sleep, does the answer lie in how people slept in medieval times?

Before artificial light and the modern workday, pre-industrial sleep occured in two segments. People would fall asleep around nightfall, get up in the middle of the night for an intermission, then go back to bed.

Getting seven consecutive hours of sleep is “not a historical norm,” he says.

“They would fall asleep around nightfall,” Thompson says, “and then they would wake up in the middle of the night for a bit of an intermission.” In between sleeps, people typically would engage in stress-free activities like chat by the fire, work for few hours or have sex with their partners, he says.

There’s evidence that suggests pre-industrial hunter-gathers from around the world slept in one phase like modern Americans do now, Thompson says, and attempts to restore segmented sleep for modern adults has shown snoozing in two segments doesn’t necessarily lead to better results.

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