Ed Pollak asked: > > > I distinctly remember reading that there are some (very few) > > people for whom it is normal to get an hour or less sleep per > > night. > > > Can anyone out there helpwith a reference? It's driving me > > nuts.
Feeling sorry for someone being driven into nuts, I responded with this unabstracted article: > Meddis R, Pearson AJ, Langford G.An extreme case of healthy insomnia. > Electroencephalogr Clin > Neurophysiol. 1973 Aug;35(2):213-4 I've now located my personal copy, with a handwritten note from Ray Meddis offering best wishes and apologizing for the delay in sending the reprint to me (truly a collector's item!). The individual in question was a 70-year-old woman, a retired nurse, who claimed to sleep for only one hr per night, without napping. She filled the time saved by not sleeping with writing and painting. A self-recorded sleep log for two weeks apparently requested by Meddis showed that she slept on average for 49 minutes per night. Meddis then observed her under laboratory conditions, with EEG, over five nights, and reported a range of sleep from 0 to 3 1/2 hrs on each, averaging 67 minutes per night. That seems pretty good documentation to me. The paper references an earlier report: Jones, H. and Oswald, I. (1968). Two cases of healthy insomnia. EEG Clin. Neurophysiol. 24, 378-380. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6558 or send a blank email to leave-6558-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
