Busyness often makes our sleep disturbed, or not soundly. This is not only experienced by you who often work until late at night, but also housewives who have to care for their children. But we often hear myths, something that can not be verified, about sleep that makes us decide something. For example, it's okay if a few days we sleep less, yet Saturday and Sunday we can sleep more. Often do it? In order not to fall into these myths surrounding sleep, let's see what we often hear about sleep
Is it true that parents sleep fewer than children? Is it true that nap is lazy? Sleep problems can not be underestimated because it affects the quality of life. Here are myths and facts about sleep.
Myth: Sleep quality determines a person's age
Fact: Sleep is a third part of human life. What happens during sleep will have an impact when someone wakes up. Vice versa, what happens when we awake can be influential during sleep
Sleep affects the quality of one's life, determines one's age, and affects human life. For example, many traffic accidents are caused by sleepy drivers.
Good sleep is good quality sleep. Good sleep quality is influenced by several things, namely:
- Dark or not sleep.
- Frequent arrousal (often awakened at night). In this case can cause the body is not fresh.
- Oxygen levels in the body during sleep, there is recovery of energy and body resistance, immune cells are formed, there is the formation of some hormones, such as growth hormone and insulin.
Myth: Sleep needs decrease with age
Fact: As a child, there must be some of us who have seen grandparents who wake up before dawn then clean the house and prepare a delicious breakfast. The impression is as if the parents do not need to sleep as much as other adults.
Humans need to sleep 6-8 hours a day. In fact, parents need to sleep as much as any other adult. Their sleep patterns are often disturbed because they often wake up at night. However, the amount of sleep they need does not diminish with age. If parents get up earlier than young people, it's because they sleep relatively sooner.
Myth: Alcoholic drinks help to sleep better
Fact: Alcohol is not the right and healthy way to help to sleep better. People who often consume alcohol sleep quality is low and often wake up at night (frequent arrousal). Too often wake up at night will cause the body is not fresh when waking up.
Myth: Snoring is not dangerous
Fact: Snoring is disturbing, especially for married couples. Characteristically, the person who purred his hands and feet usually move while sleeping.
In some cases snoring is not harmful but in certain cases is a sign of Obstructive Sleep Apnea disorder, which is a sleep disorder characterized by the cessation of breath during sleep caused by narrowing the airway periodically during sleep.
In "sleep apnea", the oxygen content is reduced to interfere with the brain and result in disruption of memory is quickly forgotten. Emotional centers in the brain result in more emotional, depression, sadness. Blood pressure rises, heart dilates, and more susceptible to coronary heart disease. Sleep apnea sufferers also tend to experience impotence (42 percent dysfunction problems in men due to sleep disorders).
Myth: Something is wrong if you do not remember your dreams
Fact: This is not quite right. Everyone must have dreamed, there are people who remember the dream and some do not remember. Dreams can occur in the phase of REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement), ie where the eye condition moves quickly. In this phase, someone may remember the dream.
Meanwhile, in the non-REM sleep phase (calm eye condition), a person does not remember or can not dream story. There are people who often dream and who does not. People with mental illness, such as sadistic, often have no dreams.
Myth: I'll be fine if I only sleep for 4 or 5 hours
Fact: It's true that there are people who sleep very little, only 4 or 5 hours of sleep at night. This is related to the person's profession.
Most people need to sleep for 6-8 hours. So less likely if a person sleeps in a relatively short time without experiencing health problems.
Not infrequently, on holidays we wake up more than usual. Human biological clock begins on waking. If the biological clock is disturbed or shifted, it will interfere with the next hours of sleep. Human sleeping hours may only shift plus / minus 1 hour.
For example, you wake up every day at 5 o'clock. If you want to wake up later, no more than 6 o'clock. If you stay up late night, you should not wake up late or more than 6 o'clock.
Vice versa. If you are used to waking up at 5 o'clock and at some point wanting to wake up early, at least you wake up at 4 o'clock. No less than 4 o'clock. Compensation, to replace less sleep time, you can sleep early or take a nap briefly (no more than 30 minute).
Long hours of sleep are actually relative. Experts in Japan have done research and proved that people who sleep 6-8 hours a day, age is longer. In fact, not a few people with little sleep or sleep longer, stay healthy.
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