Someone from classics said: life is a dream. The return is also true: dream is life. Possibility to “be disconnected” every night is more important for human, than meal and water. And consequently in Middle Ages wakefulness lasting many days was the most refined and intolerable torture: they did not allow a person to sleep, and he went mad every day. The death was a result of such inquisitorial torture.
Dream is life!
Most of us react painfully even on small not getting enough sleep, and if it becomes chronic …
Constant deficiency of healthy dream leads to immunity destruction, intelligence decrease, nervous system and bodies of gastroenteric path suffer. Even appearance directly depends on how much we sleep. Unhealthy complexion and wrinkles – everyday occurrence, which is a consequence of sleepless night. The direct communication between propensity to adiposity and dream infringements is also proved. Scientists say that hormone of growth, which regulates fat distribution in an organism, is synthesised basically during dream, therefore chances to keep symmetry for many years are much higher for those who does not neglect dream. Agree, statistics is eloquent: those who sleep 4 hours per day risk to get superfluous kgs on 74 % more, than those who regularly travels in a kingdom of Morfeus for 7-9 hours. If one has a rest for 5 hours, 50 % - his probability to gain weight, at 6-hour rest – 23 %. However, do not panic. According to last researches death rate among people sleeping 6-7 hours a day, is lower, than among other.
Yes, it is the average data. All requirements are individual: someone feels good after 4 hours of dream, and someone feels bad after 10 hours. It is necessary to be guided, first of all, by own sensations: if you have woken up with a fresh head and without alarm clock – this means you had a good sleep. If you are pursued by slackness and sensation of weariness during whole day, if you are disseminated and cannot concentrate, if you feel passivity, apathy, irritability, this means, you unequivocally had not enough sleep. You will not ignore symptoms of insomnia.
Create a dream for yourself
The most obvious means against insomnia is a soporific. However, this is not the only thing and the most effective. If the problem did not expand in chronic sleep disorder, you can do without serious therapy.
Schedule
Going to bed and waking up at the same time – the most simple way to order your dream. By means of banal schedule you can develop an original reflex in an organism. Even during week-end, when temptation to stay in bed in the forenoon is great, do not lie longer, than for an hour.
When you should go to bed? There are different opinions. Some advise to be guided by internal sensations: as soon as eyes start sticking together, you can go to bed. However, majority has other opinion: the best dream comes from 11 PM till 5 AM, and especially – in an interval since 2 to 4.
Calmness
Do not be engaged in fitness or look horror films and actions before a dream – all this will excite and confuse organism, which automatically relaxes closer to a night. Unique kinds of fitness, which are not counter-indicative in the evening, are exercises on extension, slow walk and sex.
Warm shower
We mean warm shower, comfortable for a body! And bath is even better. For bigger efficiency you can add essence (for example, such traditionally “sleepy”, as geranium, lavender, pink tree oil) or aromatic salt with relaxing effect.
Correct supper
Overeating before a dream is a taboo. Try to have a supper at least 3 hours prior to a withdrawal to a dream, then feeling of weight in a stomach will not distract organism from rest. You should not refuse from supper at all. If you did not manage to eat 3-4 hours before your head would touch pillow, it is possible to snack with light carbohydrates (for example, sweet fruits, vegetables or small loafs).
Folk remedies
In struggle against sleeplessness “grandmother’s” recipes are also good. It is useful to take a light soothing infusion or tea with camomile, mint, hop, balm, valeriana. A classical method – a glass of warm milk with a spoon of honey dissolved in it. By the way, some words about valeriana. You can put dry root of this plant in a special sack near to your pillow and inhale a smell. Lavender essence also has a good effect.
Good bed
Great attention should be paid actually to a bed - a vehicle, which we use to travel to the world of Morfeus. You will sleep more comfortably on a rigid mattress. Besides, it is more useful: lying on an orthopedic mattress you can avoid osteochondrosis. So forget about feather-beds and big pillows. A good pillow should be low – so that a neck would be based in natural position, on one line with a body. If you prefer sleeping on one side, choose a pillow with thickness equal to length of your shoulder. Only at correctly picked up pillow cervical department of backbone is in correct position, and brain functions normally. And wrinkles are formed not so intensively!
Such trifle (it would seem, a trifle), as colour of bed-clothes can also affect quality of dream. It is considered that linen of dark, blue and greenish shades guarantees sweet dream, and red linen drives a dream away.
Medical assistance
If insomnia poisons your life regularly, address to a doctor-therapist. Somnolent preparations offered by pharmacists today are effective and safe enough. However, a long-term sleeplessness – a right way to a heart attack, stroke, hypertensions, diabetes and other no less serious diseases.
