We are not bears, but I want to sleep in the winter to horror - you noticed? Especially in cloudy weather. Therefore, sleep - weather-dependent and season-dependent. And insomnia? Do she have seasonal exacerbations?
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Sleep - Protection
- No one has not yet answered the question about the winter hibernation, - says Doctor of Medical Sciences, head. Sleep laboratory Roman Buzunov. - Such a program of life is laid in them genetically. Most likely, it is one of the protective mechanisms that allows you to survive in the winter in the absence of food.
- It turns out, the bear is sleeping so as not to eat?
- Perhaps this is a hunger protection. Sleep generally protects both human and animals.
- Wise version. Real Winter - Serious Test for the Body. And perhaps a person also subconsciously seeks to hide from her in the arms of sleep. I also read that our ancestors had only day vision. And in the dark they were almost blind, so they slept. And in winter, after all, there are depressing dark days - here we walk half...
- Sleep is undoubtedly connected with the length of the daylight. Hence the seasonal features of many diseases. There are, for example, the concept of seasonal affective disorder. It is associated with the insufficiency of white light - this is a spectrum, characteristic of the sunny rays, the usual electric light does not replace it. Our eyes are directly connected with the brain. And if the white light is missing, then the condition of drowsiness, breakdown, depression arises.
- What to do?
- If this state lasts and becomes a diagnosis, it must be treated. There are special methods of exposure to bright white light, special lamps. Their action per person for 40 minutes - an hour every day already gives a tangible effect.
- And if there is no diagnosis, I want to sleep. Do I need to strengthen the lighting? Or just try to sleep longer?
- The more light (preferably white spectrum), the better. Why do you want to sleep in the dark? Because we have a hormone melatonin (it is called sleep hormone), which produces in the brain in the dark, when the light does not fall on the eyes, and causes a feeling of drowsiness. In the morning, with light, melatonin production is sharply reduced. Therefore, waking up, you must immediately include bright light. But, of course, the lack of light is not the only cause of winter drowsiness. It becomes less vitamins. This is also fraught with weakness, lethargy, reduced pressure. Especially in people for whom the reduced pressure in general.
- Animal winter hid is connected with frosts. And in humans, the cold also increases the need in a dream?
- Man much less dependent on the external environment. Especially today, when it is protected and clothing, and warm housing. And in general, a person is a treaty, he has its own inner temperature. And during the heat, and in the frost he still has the body temperature is the same - 36.6 (if health). Rather, behavioral features are affected: many people just move less in winter, walking less on foot. A state of rest, low mobility provokes a desire to sleep.
- Can I change the sleep rate depending on the season? Do I need to fiercely fight with the desire to build an extra hour?
- Fiercely struggling with the needs of the body - the point is ungrateful. Everyone has a genetically defined duration of normal sleep. It may vary: in summer, a person is slightly less sleeping, in winter - a little more. Deal with this - it's like dealing with the color of the eyes or growth. If nature tells you to sleep for 8 hours, and you will insist on a six-hour norm, then chronic sleep shortages, fatigue and associated neurosis will develop within a week and a half week. And the concept of normal sleep duration is determined only by human well-being. From 4 to 12 hours of daily sleep - all this is normal. The norm is when a person is operational throughout the day and wants to sleep closer to the night. No more clear criteria. Per day - to get tired, per night - rest - that's all the norm.
Seasonal exacerbations of insomnia
- Insomnia has seasonal exacerbations?
- Insomnia Multicolia. Literal translation - no sleep. But it is rather a symptom, not a diagnosis. It happens that insomnia is associated with medical problems (asthma, hypertension, joint diseases). Then she "Love" With seasonal exacerbations of these diseases.
The second type of insomnia is associated with lifestyle. It happens, for example, that a person drinks 15-20 cups a day. Such insomnia is unlikely to be connected with the time of the year. Often insomnia is associated with disturbing depressive states. Then you can identify dependence on the season, and from the profession, and on the peculiarities of the human psyche.
Finally, there are so-called circadian disorders - this is what is associated with violation of the work of biological clock. Frequent long-term flights, work in the night shift, any sharp breaking of the day of the day - all this can cause insomnia. And it happens at any time of the year. In general, sleep is the process of mysterious and multifaceted. Academician Alexander Vaine once said the beautiful phrase: "Sleep deprivation is incompatible with life". On the other hand, for a person, a disobedic hicy - a state of pathological. Sleep can be healing and painful. For example, harmless snoring is often a symptom of a serious disease - obstructive apnea syndrome, sleep or breathing stop disease. When a person in eight hours of sleep is recorded 500 stops of breathing, it does not breathe almost four hours - this is a serious problem. But in general, I can repeat: each person's duration of sleep is individual, it is laid genetically. And any sharp shifts (a person suddenly began to sleep on two or three hours more or less) - this is a sign of hidden disadvantage. This also has a science about a dream - Somnology.
