读Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker-未完待续……

读这本书有点猎奇心理，确实了解到很多觉得挺有意思的信息。其实作者Matthew Walker是正儿八经的科学家(a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard University。 He has published more than a hundred scientific studies and has appeared on BBC News and NPR’s Science Friday.)，曾在Nature上发表过不少文章，所以咱是从他的科研资料或体验中学习一些关于睡眠的知识。 Why We Sleep是他的第一本书，也许是英国出生的缘故，多少有点文艺气息，文学修辞和生僻词太多。不是专业出身，不做评述，只是做笔记式的抄录重要信息：

How should we sleep in Chaper 4

Throughout developed nations, most adults currently sleep in a monophasic pattern-that is, we try to take a long, single bout of slumber at night, the average duration of which is now less than seven hours.
Hunter-gatherer tribes, such as the Gabra in northern Kenya or the San people in the Kalahari Desert, whose way of life has changed little over the past thousands of years, sleep in a biphasic pattern. Both these groups take a similarly longer sleep period at night (seven to eight hours of time in bed, achieving about seven hours of sleep), followed by a thirty-to sixty-minute nap in the afternoon. There is also evidence for a mix of the two sleep patterns, determined by time of year. In the hotter summer months, a thirty- to forty-minute nap at high noon is good. Then they switch to a lar