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Insomnia

Restlessness

I am a sleep hunter. I track sleep through my house. I track it with a flashlight, and a bottle of pills, and two pillows, and a blanket, and a…

Segmented Sleep

by A. Roger Ekirch,

At first I dreaded having to investigate the history of sleep. Human slumber appeared impervious to time and place, stubbornly immune to the element of change animating most works of…

Neighbors

by Deb Olin Unferth,

Maximilian in the basement watched TV every night. I lay on a mattress on the floor in the apartment above him. He’d turn on the news around ten, fall asleep,…

Herbal Remedies

by Rebecca Curtis,

As a holistic nutritionist, I often work with people who have trouble sleeping. Some wake throughout the night; others jolt up at two a.m. and are unable to return to…

Gaboxadol

by Hamilton Morris,

In 1755 the naturalist Stepan Krasheninnikov observed the Amanita muscaria mushroom’s effects on Russian soldiers in Siberia ingesting it for the first time. Claiming to have been seized by an…

Insomnia

by Rebecca Solnit,

If only sleep could be hoarded, accumulated, and traded; if only you could store it up for a rainy day or borrow it from friends or buy it on the…

Sleep and insomnia

by George W. (George William) Gray,

Curing insomnia

by Anthony Armstrong,

Unlucky speeches

Art by George Du Maurier,

To a friend who slept ill

by Edgar Fawcett,

Insomnia

Restlessness

Segmented Sleep

Neighbors

Herbal Remedies

Gaboxadol

Insomnia

Sleep and insomnia

Curing insomnia

Unlucky speeches

To a friend who slept ill

Editor’s drawer

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Insomnia

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Restlessness

Segmented Sleep

Neighbors

Herbal Remedies

Gaboxadol

Insomnia

Sleep and insomnia

Curing insomnia

Unlucky speeches

To a friend who slept ill

Editor’s drawer

December 1872

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