My bed on the left, crochet project on the rightEven though I write a lot about sleep for my job, I’ve been struggling with insomnia for years (my average sleep time is just under six hours, which I am painfully aware is bad for me). Though I’ve found some tips that help, in general, the pattern stays the same. I start my screen-free bedtime routine at 8pm, read until 9, sleep ’til about 3am, and then stay agonisingly, anxiety-inducingly awake until my 6am-ish workout.So when I heard that Medieval peasants had a similar-ish sleep pattern some experts describe as more attuned to our body’s natural clock, I thought: why not give it a go?For millennia, historian Roger Ekirch explains in his book