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Angela referenced this book she read as a teenager, which had a forest green cover with a Picasso painting of a sleeping woman. The book detailed the story of a colleague of DeMent's who began sleeping only four hours a night after the age of 23, a pattern that continued for the rest of his life.
I read this book when I was a teenager that my sister had on her shelf. I can picture it vividly. It had a forest green cover with a Picasso painting of a woman sleeping. It was called Why Some Must S...
— Episode: 50. Are You as Observant as You Think?
Episode: 50. Are You as Observant as You Think?
Angela referenced this book she read as a teenager, which had a forest green cover with a Picasso painting of a sleeping woman. The book detailed the story of a colleague of DeMent's who began sleeping only four hours a night after the age of 23, a pattern that continued for the rest of his life.
I read this book when I was a teenager that my sister had on her shelf. I can picture it vividly. It had a forest green cover with a Picasso painting of a woman sleeping. It was called Why Some Must Sleep and Others Must Watch.
The name of the book is actually Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep, a line from Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet. Its author is the famed sleep researcher William DeMent, who died in 2020 at 100 years old.