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A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19900903
Author:Betsy A. Lehman, Globe Staff

William Butler Yeats wrote of being "old and gray and full of sleep," but "old and gray and awake in the middle of the night" is probably more accurate.

Consider, for example, a 76-year-old retired engineer who lives on the South Shore: "I don't sleep as well as I used to, I can tell you," he says. This man goes to bed "religiously" at 9 or 9:30 every night and reads until 10. He sleeps for an hour or two, then awakens, completely alert.

"I read or watch TV or go down in my shop and work for an hour or so and get sleepy. And then I go back to bed for two or three hours, and repeat it." ...

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