Scheduling our rest around the modern work schedule has given rise to some sleep disorders, argues Matthew Wolf-Meyer in his new book, Dreamland
HOWEVER you do it – alone, with a partner, on your back, side or front, in the dark or with the light on – bedding down for a night’s sleep feels like one of the most personal things we do. According to anthropologist , this is just an illusion.
In The Slumbering Masses, Wolf-Meyer argues that US sleep habits are not individual, or even largely biological. They are, instead, cultural, designed to fit the schedule of a…
