The invention of the light bulb changed the concept of "night" and "darkness." What did people do when the nights were long, dark and forbidding?
Most of us would likely agree that waking up in the middle of the night is almost never a good thing. We remember that old mantra that "nothing good happens after midnight," and we know that when the phone rings after we've gone to bed, it's rarely good news. A staple of local TV stations for several decades beginning in the '60s was the public service announcement, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?" It may be the 21st century, but we're still worrying. Add to that all the things that go bump in the night and the stress we carry over from day to day, and it's no wonder that many of us aren't getting the requisite eight, uninterrupted hours of sleep that doctors recommend.
Humanity has long had reason to fear the night. Our preindustrial ancestors didn't have the luxury of flipping a switch to flood a dark room with light, so most of them spent the hours from dusk to dawn in almost total darkness. With no lights about anywhere, night was considered to be the realm of...
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