Cannot sleep
Cannot sleep? You mean insomnia?
It is connected to stress deeply.
Stress？
Yes. When you cannot sleep because of stress, it is called stress-related insomnia.
If you get mental stress, your brain gets excited and excrete noradrenalin or dopamine.
And then brain gets heated and cannot have a rest.
And stress activates sympathetic and disturb parasympathetic division to work.
If this parasympathetic division doesn't work well, it causes insomnia.
I see.
If you go to bed with too much stress, you will have much REM sleep. As a result, you cannot get deep sleep. Then your sleeping quality will go down.
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Then what can we do？
I will show you how to get stress out of our system.
- Escape…to refuse to face the reality
ex)to shut oneself away - Rationalization…to justify oneself to kid oneself
ex)to think that that man is not suitable for me - Attack…to crank on things
ex)to hit the desk - Identification…to follow the ideal person
ex)to copy the hair-style of the favorite celebrity - Compensation…to cover a loss instead
ex)to increace one's value by studying instead of sports - Sublimate…to release stress by doing what you want to do
ex)to release stress by playing games or sports - Inhibition…to try to forget
ex)to try to forget the fact that you got the bad score on the exam - Regress…to become like a kid
ex)to have a fit
Hmm..I see...But I cannot accept them like attack.
And I don't understand sublimate. It means you can play games before going to bed.
Then it will disturb your sleep. What can we do?
Well...That's right.
Then any other solution?
Well, the reason why you cannot sleep is not only those.
Yeah?
There is a data which tells us that most students who answered they cannot sleep take a nap in classes or in the daytime.
Really?
They sometimes live the vampire life. It causes truancy.
You cannot sleep at night because you take a nap in the day time. Once you get this bad life style, it is so hard to get it back into regular hours.
I got it.
In the end what you need is to set the environment to make you sleep comfortably to solve the problem of stress and nap.
Yes. You need to set the environment to make you relax.
That's right. There are other ways to make you sleep comfortably.
That is what we introduced on the page of "Ideal sleep". That is "The ropes of good sleep".
Is that this?
This is the solution. With this, you can change your life cycle. Try to do this for even one day.
If you can go to bed early for even a day, you feel sleepy next day. In the meanwhile, you can get regular hours. Taking a deep breath is also good to have a comfortable sleep.
I see. Let's try it.
Solution
- Try to do some efforts along "The ropes of good sleep".
- Not to take a nap in the daytime