The ancient sages were trying to penetrate the mysteries of dreams. But until now, the part of life that a person spends in a dream, it seems mysterious, almost mystical. What science says?
How many people have to sleep
Sleepy habits as well as fingerprints - unique to each person. For example, Napoleon slept only four hours a day and feel fresh. Churchill slept during the night just five hours. And someone in order to function properly, you need 8-9 hours of sleep. Saying how to sleep People should pay attention to, whether the dream brings relief and recovery. If the human body and a half hours recovered completely, then it is enough.
Sleep duration depends primarily on the blood supply to the brain. If you are overweight, you do not exercise, and blood flow to the brain at zero or you grandmother 85 years, in which all the sclerotic, of course, and seven hours will not be enough.
To night's sleep made it possible to relax the body, it must be continuous. Most people enough sleep for six hours to get the necessary discharge. During this time, time to be replaced by four of the most important stages of sleep. To get your six o'clock continuous sleep and to increase the production of serotonin stimulates sleep, enter into your diet vitamin B6 and tryptophan contained in chicken, tuna, cheese, eggs, nuts and milk.
Alcohol helps to sleep
Alcohol can really play the role of sedation, but called them a very poor quality of sleep. Do you often wake up because of the fact that the body produces ethanol, which does not sleep soundly. Dehydration and a full bladder also prevent deep sleep, which is essential for the normal rest. In the event of the evening alcohol consumption should become more moderate. Liver takes one hour to process one serving of alcohol. You can perform simple arithmetic operations when stumbling will trudge to the toilet at three o'clock.
Mobile phones are ruining the dream man
Scientifically proven: recent phone calls break dream man as well as flights across time zones. The study, conducted by researchers at the Swedish University of Uppsala, found that the radiation of the handset retains a transition person in deep sleep. Electromagnetic waves inhibit the brain, melatonin stimulates sleep. Therefore, remove the cell phone from his bedroom and, if you have a concern, measure the radiation level in the apartment a special detector.
For those who did not see dreams
Is it possible to do so - never to see again? Science says no. There was even a Nazi torture, in which the second phase is artificially deprived of sleep as a time when the dreams began. The man went crazy for a week.
Scientists believe that all people have dreams. I just do not remember them all.
Can dreams to report illnesses?
Interpretation of Dreams - an important area in any medical practice. If a person during sleep experience some anxiety, then it certainly is not all right. For example, in a fit, heart attack When clogged blood vessels, there is a lack of oxygen and compressed the heart, - a person experiences fear. And if in a dream, he feels in the fall, so his blood circulation in the middle ear, which is responsible for our ability to navigate in space. If you change the circulation, in the middle ear occur failures - as a result of having the feeling of weightlessness, falling. But if a person has a tumor in the temporal region, or other problems in this part, it is visited by those multicolored phantasmagoria that sometimes you do not want to wake up. Therefore it is very important painting of sleep, his emotionality duration. Almost 90 percent of all illnesses are served some kind of signal, and this is reflected in dreams.
How to fall asleep when you should sleep and the brain does not turn off
You know, tomorrow is an important day, and need sleep Not to feel then "cooked" and overwhelmed. But as luck would not sleep ... Insomnia can be a manifestation of a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as neurasthenia, anxiety and phobic states or depression. But it can also be a separate disorder.
There are different types of sleep disorders. For example, such a person can not fall asleep for a long time, called "insomnia young", as it affects mostly young people. It also happens that people fall asleep faster, but after a few hours of sleep and waking up can no longer - a "insomnia elderly."
Acceptance of sleeping pills and tranquilizers is not the best way, because these drugs are quickly addictive and addictive and the person is forced more and more to increase the dose to achieve the desired effect. As a result, these drugs "hooked" no less than alcohol or drugs, and in those doses, in which it is already accustomed to a person is forced to accept them, they are poison for the body. A soothing herbal infusions and teas, though harmless, but help is not all and not always.
What makes a person suffering from insomnia? He is struggling to force myself to sleep, tormented by thoughts of what he must sleep. In the evening, going to bed, he thought about the upcoming night, and then, tossing and turning in bed, exhausts himself with thoughts of how it will be terrible if he will not be able to sleep again. His bed is not converted into a place where you can indulge in the serene peace, in the torture chamber. What really is the dream ...
Austrian psychotherapist Viktor Frankl has developed a method of paradoxical intention, through which millions of people were able to restore normal sleep without pills. That's the gist of it.
First night. Avoid receiving hypnotics or sedatives (if you accept them). Go to bed, renouncing any intention to sleep. Say to yourself: "Yes, I will not sleep again tonight, so I will not even try (and do not try!). Tomorrow I will feel overwhelmed, but nothing is ever survive. " And lying quietly and comfortably, think about anything, just do not try to induce sleep - just take your insomnia. In the morning get up earlier than usual. During the day, despite the fatigue, - do not sleep! Do not nap! Hold on.
The second night. You go to bed with the intention not to fall asleep! Your task - to genuinely struggling to wish to spend the night without sleep. Ordering me: "Do not sleep! In no case do not sleep! ". At the same time take a comfortable position and relax, lie quietly and mentally force yourself to stay awake. What happens next, see for yourself.
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