Why do I wake up at night? Why do people wake up in the middle of the night? Introduce useful practices into your morning

How many hours to sleep and what time is it better to get up?

The norm for people from 18 to 65 years old is from 7 to 9 hours of sleep. If you sleep less than 7 hours and more than 9, this can lead to various diseases and even shortening lifespan. Of course, it is better to go to bed before midnight, but this is not necessary: the main thing is that the person gets up not too late and gets enough sleep. For example, if you have to get up at 9 am, you can easily go to bed at 1 am.
Unfortunately, sleep duration is constantly decreasing: in some cities people sleep for 6 hours. They naively believe that they will be able to accomplish more and this will not affect their health in any way. People forget that sleep is one of the pillars of human health. The ancient Greeks, including Hippocrates, believed so. He carefully monitored his sleep and lived, according to some sources, 83 years, according to others, 104.

I think that in general modern medicine It started with somnology. IN Ancient Greece there were asklepions (temples, dedicated to god medicine to Asclepius), they also came there for treatment. The patient had to sleep one night in the temple, and the next morning tell the priest about his dreams - based on the dreams, the priest would prescribe treatment.
It’s better to get up early enough, at a reasonable time morning time.The earlier we get up, the higher the so-called “sleep pressure” in the evening.- a state that makes us go to bed in evening time. The longer we sleep (late morning or afternoon), the harder it is for us to fall asleep at the end of the day. Why it’s better to get up early: the main regulator of sleep and biological rhythms - sunlight. If it hits the retina of a sleeping person's eye in wrong time, then there is a possibility of sleep disturbances and biorhythms.

How to properly prepare for bed?

A simple rule: before going to bed there should be no stress, neither physical nor emotional. It is better to do fitness 4 hours before bedtime. TV, computer, gadgets - exclude. They disrupt the production of melatonin (sleep hormone). The TV needs to be removed from the bedroom.: Under no circumstances should a person associate the process of falling asleep with it.

As for alcohol, after drinking alcohol it is, of course, easier for a person to fall asleep. But after 3-5 hours, after the alcohol is processed by the body, the mechanism responsible for awakening is activated. A person wakes up in the middle of the night and cannot sleep. You shouldn't smoke before bed either - cigarettes disrupt the production of neurotransmitters ( chemical substances, providing signal transmission between neurons) responsible for sleep.
Summary: relaxed, calm, little light. The temperature in the room, by the way, also matters; the optimal is 20-22°.

How to wake up correctly? How to catch the REM sleep phase, during which it is easier to get up?

There is no need to catch the phase. Ideally, the body itself prepares us for waking up from this phase (if everything is fine with our sleep patterns). Gadgets and applications that supposedly can wake you up during this particular phase should not be used: the algorithms in them are imperfect.

How to wake up: it’s better without a sharp alarm clock on your smartphone. Waking up should be natural; if you wish, you can put your routine in order and wake up on your own (for example, I get up on my own). If it doesn't work out, It’s better to buy yourself a light alarm clock. How it works: at the appointed time, the light slowly lights up and simulates sunrise. Such alarm clocks do not jerk you out of sleep abruptly, but gradually, which leads to a decrease in melatonin production.

How to deal with drowsiness in autumn and winter?

Sleep disturbances at this time are logical: there is less light, melatonin production is disrupted (melatonin is actively produced during the day, but in the evening, on the contrary, little). This is especially felt by people with dark eyes, their irises already let in less light.

What to do: in addition to the recommendations above, at least spend more time outside during the day. If the problem is more serious, then special lamps (with white light and uniform radiation) will help, which, for example, can be installed in your office. In 30-40 minutes, such a lamp suppresses the production of melatonin and, accordingly, drowsiness. More from general recommendations: physical exercise. For example, I try to do something 3-4 times a week: walk 10-14 kilometers, swim in the pool.

Is it possible to get enough sleep in fewer hours: not 8, as advised, but, for example, 5?

It is possible to live in this mode without harm to health - but not for long. Let's say a student wants to pass a test and decides to sleep 3 hours less. He artificially keeps himself active: he drinks coffee and some tonics. But in any case, this leads to impairment of cognitive functions: problems with memory, concentration, and coordination begin. It is impossible to teach yourself to sleep less, to somehow deceive the body. There is a very small percentage of “short sleepers”; a short sleep makes them completely rested. But this is due to genetics.

To practice nap I don’t recommend it as a partial replacement for night time: it leads to accelerated development heart diseases. And sooner or later a person will turn into a “zombie”.
There is a version that, for example, Leonardo da Vinci had his own regime, which allowed him to work productively. It is believed that he slept for 15-20 minutes every 4 hours. But this is just a version, we don’t know for sure. Many believe that in fact da Vinci suffered from narcolepsy - attacks of irresistible daytime sleepiness.

What are the dangers of lack of sleep?

Disrupting almost everyone's work functional systems body. Scientists have found that reducing sleep by just 1 hour for 2 weeks leads to changes in the activity of even the human genome. So far, it is known that the activity of at least 400 genes changes, including those affecting heart disease and the endocrine system.

Lack of sleep will disrupt the production of all hormones- starting from sexually transmitted diseases and ending with those responsible for the development of diabetes mellitus. Problems with weight, appetite, blood pressure, nervous system, and immunity will appear. In general, almost everything will be violated biological processes responsible for human health.
In the Guinness Book of Records there is a man who spent 11 days without sleep. But from experiments we know that Most living organisms die without sleep within a week. This once again suggests that sleep has a vital (life) function.

Is it possible to turn from a “night owl” into a “lark” and vice versa without harm to the body?

For many it is naturally occurs throughout life: in youth a person is often a “night owl”, in maturity he is often a “lark”. We can change the regime if, for example, we fly across several time zones (but this is not very good for health). It is possible to smoothly rearrange your schedule within 2-3 weeks: following all the rules, using light devices and, if necessary, taking medications containing melatonin. But there are people who (perhaps due to genetics) cannot break their regime. Eat large companies who meet such people halfway and allow them to work a second shift.

By the way, Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine this year was given for work in the field of biorhythms. Perhaps in the future a person will be able to somehow influence them. It is believed that the knowledge gained will help create drugs for adjusting biorhythms. This applies to people whose circadian cycle is shifted due to genetics: for example, a person goes to bed at 7 pm and wakes up at 4 am.

Is it harmful to get enough sleep for the entire week on the weekend?

Yes. You should always get up early, even on weekends. You need to understand that sleep patterns affect your health as a whole, and not just the state of “getting enough sleep or not getting enough sleep.” Let's say you stretch your sleep on Saturday and Sunday, sleeping until noon or longer. As a result, on the night from Sunday to Monday, you have a hard time falling asleep, you go to bed later, and get up exhausted and tired: with reduced performance and absent-mindedness.

It's impossible to make up for lost sleep over the weekend. If a person lives in this mode: does not get enough sleep for a week, and then sleeps on the weekend, then sooner or later this will lead to chronic diseases.

Are there any correct sleeping positions?

No, everything is individual. Those for those with neck problems, it is better to sleep on low pillows, to reduce muscle tension; those those with heart or breathing problems - on high, to breathe easier. A healthy person can sleep even on a log; Maybe he won’t feel very well in the morning, but he’ll definitely get a good night’s sleep. There are no rules, it all depends on the individual.

Why do we sleep at all?

It is clear that the brain works during sleep - in fast phase sleep even more active than during wakefulness. The brain is a powerful computing system; it constantly processes information. At night, it processes information coming from internal organs.

We know that it is better not to disrupt this process. But we do not yet know for sure what specific information the brain processes, which enters it in a huge stream during sleep. I hope that in the coming decades we will better understand the interaction of the brain and organs during sleep, and this will allow us to treat many human diseases.

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists suggested that a special substance accumulates in the human brain during wakefulness - hypnotoxin, “or sleepy poison.” French researchers Pieron and Legendre conducted a series of experiments with dogs and were convinced that maximum amount hypnotoxin accumulates in human body by the time of falling asleep. During sleep, the “sleeping poison” is neutralized and disappears by morning. Scientists took blood from dogs that had not slept for a long time and infused it into well-rested dogs. Soon after the transfusion, the well-rested dogs began to yawn and fell asleep. However, Pieron and Legendre failed to isolate the “sleeping poison” test subjects.

The theory expressed by the French is supported by many scientists. They believe that falling asleep occurs as a result of two processes. Firstly, a person is affected by an unknown substance, conventionally called hypnotoxin. Secondly, towards the end of the period of wakefulness, the active centers of the brain responsible for the thought process, reaction, receipt and processing of information gradually turn off.

When internal clock approach a certain point, the person begins to want to sleep. A hypothetical “sleep gate” opens, which allows consciousness to switch off and escape from reality. In the presence of favorable factors - silence, darkness and comfort - the active centers of the brain are suppressed by the inhibitory centers, and rest begins. During sleep, the hypnotoxin is neutralized, the active centers resume their work, and by the time the “sleep gate” closes, the person wakes up from the slightest irritant.

Astral theory

Besides scientific version, there is also an astral theory of sleep. According to this theory, a person passes into another world at the moment of falling asleep. The conscious turns off and the unconscious comes to light. To control or at least “catch” the moment of transition, you cannot do without training. It is known that some people can wake up at will after seeing horrible dream or by setting your “internal alarm clock” in advance certain time. The ability to control the transition can be trained in the same way.

When you go to bed, try to keep your consciousness on the surface. It is important to feel the fine line that separates wakefulness and sleep. At the moment your thoughts begin to get confused, turn on your imagination and bring some image onto the stage of consciousness. If you manage to do this, then you can consider that you managed to “catch” the moment of falling asleep.

Adequate sleep without waking up is an indicator good health person. Why do people wake up at night without obvious reasons, often at the same time, is of interest to sleep specialists - somnologists and people suffering from insomnia. How to get back healthy night rest adults, children and the elderly will become clearer with a deeper study of the topic of sleep.

Bad sleep at night

The quality of night's rest is one of the main factors full life person. Insomnia, no matter what the cause, affects the physical and emotional health of people. It is impossible to cure this disease with medication, because it becomes addictive to the medications. A person taking sleeping pills becomes dependent on the drug. The absence of medicine frightens a person and makes him nervous.

The main reasons for poor sleep in men and women are:

overwork;
excitation;
disruption of usual life biorhythms (work, study, entertainment at night);
uncomfortable conditions for night rest;
bad habits(smoking, drinking alcohol);
mental and physical illnesses.

During pregnancy, women sometimes wake up due to hormonal changes in organism. This natural process although it brings inconvenience to the expectant mother, but is a temporary phenomenon. Don't worry about this. General somatic diseases such as osteochondrosis, diabetes, lung pathologies, gastrointestinal tract and other organs can lead to disruption of night rest due to painful symptoms.

Psychosomatic illnesses: rheumatoid arthritis, bronchial asthma, neurodermatitis, etc. in their nature have both physical and mental aspects. Stressful, panic states, psycho-emotional experiences significantly excite the patient’s nervous system while awake, which leads to sleep disturbance. These reasons prevent adults and children from getting a good night's rest.

Some medications prescribed by a doctor to treat a particular disease have sleep disturbances as side effects. For example, beta blockers are a common type medicines for the treatment of diseases of cardio-vascular system, have such by-effect. Using medical supplies, you must carefully study the instructions for use. If after using the medicine the patient begins to sleep poorly, he should contact his doctor with a request to change the drug.

In adults

People don't always think of nighttime urination as a problem, but it does exist. At night, the process of urine production slows down; a healthy person can sleep for 8 hours straight. Nocturia causes you to wake up frequently due to a burning desire to urinate. As the body ages, the quality of sleep is disrupted: it becomes superficial and intermittent. Old people may wake up several times a night due to physical pain accompanying them chronic diseases.

Alcohol drunk in the evening can quickly plunge a person into deep dream. Some men and women use this remedy to relax and fall asleep quickly. The body will have to process alcohol at night, when most of the body's organs are not active. This is how it is created additional load on the liver, which causes internal unconscious anxiety in a person, a state of anxiety. As a result, he can wake up several times a night.

Apnea disease (stop breathing reflexes) is another cause of poor sleep. This disease affects about 5% of the world's population. Congenital pathologies, overweight influence the narrowing of the upper respiratory tract at night, which leads to temporary cessation of breathing. The unconscious instinct of self-preservation forces you to wake up when there is a critical amount of oxygen in the blood. Sleep apnea sufferers often snore, which impairs the quality of their night's rest.

Patients with depression sleep poorly. Constant stress does not give the body the desired relaxation. It is difficult for a person to sleep, he often wakes up. Due to lack of sleep, anxiety increases and the disease worsens. With the syndrome restless legs the patient cannot sleep due to an irresistible desire to move his legs. This neurological disease causes unpleasant sensations: itching, burning, tingling of the legs. They are so strong that the signals from the nervous system force you to wake up.

Night heartburn, coughing attacks, pain when swallowing - for these reasons, most people wake up during the night's rest. With gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), these symptoms torment the patient, forcing him to wake up from acid reflux(throwing sour gastric juice into the esophagus). Such emissions can occur several times during the night. The patient wakes up every time.

In children

Worried moms are worried that... infants often wake up at night and cry. The crying of infants in itself should not alarm parents. The daytime disturbances that the baby receives while awake can cause awakening. This emotional aspect is not pathological, because new impressions naturally excite his fragile nervous system.

Night feeding of a newborn baby is considered normal. If the mother breastfeeds the baby by the hour, it is natural for him to wake up for night feeding. Gradually, mothers can increase the time between feedings, then, instead of milk, teach the child to drink water at night. With age, the habit of waking up at night will leave the baby if the parents are consistent and patient.

Babies often experience abdominal cramps because their metabolism child's body has not returned to normal yet. This may cause nighttime crying. A tummy massage, a warm diaper that warms the abdominal area, and special teas will help mothers relieve the child’s pain. Colic can bother babies up to three months of age. When a baby is teething, he becomes very restless and capricious, often waking up. This natural process brings suffering to the child. Your temperature may rise. Mothers should definitely seek help from their pediatrician at this time.

Infants have very sensitive skin. A full wet diaper bothers the baby and he wakes up. A child does not sleep well when he has a cold, as he is bothered by a cough, snot, and fever. Like adults, children sleep poorly due to an uncomfortable bed, inappropriate clothing, and uncomfortable air temperature in the nursery. Loud noises frighten them and irritate them strong odors. If the baby creates optimal conditions, he will stop waking up at night.

It happens that older children wake up in the middle of the night and call for their mother. This is fine. Perhaps the child had a nightmare. Children often wake up if they are afraid. It is very important to put your baby to sleep correctly. When it's laid down loving parents, the environment is friendly and the child is healthy, he will have no reason to wake up at night and cry.

Why does a person wake up at night?

Melatonin is a sleep hormone produced by the pineal gland of the brain. It begins to be actively produced after 21 hours. If melatonin is produced normally, a person does not know what insomnia is. As morning approaches, dopamine receptors in the pineal gland become active, blocking the release of melatonin. If the production of these hormones fails, a person sleeps poorly. A polysomnographic examination can identify the causes of a patient’s poor sleep, and a sleep specialist will give necessary recommendations.

Somnologists help understand why people often wake up at night. In their opinion, there are a number of reasons that affect the quality of night rest. Having analyzed them, excluding negative factors, you can stop waking up at night. The temperature of the room where adults sleep should be 17-20°C. In the children's bedroom - 18-21°C. The body of a sleeping man, according to physiological processes, must cool down a little to enter the sleep phase. If your child often wakes up drenched in sweat, you need to change his blanket and pajamas to lighter ones.

Frequent waking up

Reasons waking up frequently at night there may be functional disorders body (parasomnias). It will not be possible to cope with them without the help of a doctor. Parasomnias include:

sleepwalking (walking unconsciously at night);
unexplained night terrors, nightmares;
enuresis ( involuntary urination at night time);
sleep paralysis

At the same time

Why people wake up at the same time at night can be understood by understanding anatomy human body and cycles of its functioning. If you have poor sleep, do not neglect the help of a doctor; he will select the necessary medication or cognitive behavioral treatment. The reasons for waking up at certain hours of the night may be as follows:

Human gallbladder Actively works from 23.00 to 1.00 hours. This is the period when fats consumed during the day are broken down by the body's bile acids. If you wake up during these hours, you should follow Lenten diet, do not overeat before bed. Psychologists say that resentment, condemnation, inability to forgive - probable reasons loss of sleep during this time.
From 1.00 to 3.00 the liver begins to active phase. It processes harmful toxins. Evening drinks alcoholic drinks, fatty food may cause loss of sleep at this time due to the liver being overloaded. WITH psychological point In view, anger and guilt are also the cause of insomnia after 1.00 am.
From 5.00 to 7.00 hours is the active phase of the intestines. All his work is aimed at cleansing. More often in the morning, a person emptys the intestines of processed food debris. If someone believes that interrupting sleep during this period of time is unacceptable for him, then he needs to undergo bowel cleansing procedures.

Every night

Why you can’t sleep at night can be understood if you carefully examine sleeping area. Often interruptions in sleep are caused by an uncomfortable bed or the unusual environment of the room in which you have to spend the night. Stale air, pungent odors, coffee drunk before bed, emotional discomfort - these are far from full list reasons leading to disruption of a good night's rest.

At 3 o'clock in the morning

From 3.00 to 5.00 the lungs are active. During these hours, people suffering from lung diseases wake up. The cough intensifies because the lungs cleanse themselves at this time. If you wake up during this period, you should pay more attention to your lung health - quit smoking, for example. Susceptible depressive states people often wake up before 5 am.

In a cold sweat

Therapists will help determine why a person wakes up at night, pouring out cold sweat for no reason, by diagnosing diseases with this symptom. Cold sweat along with other signs is clinical picture the following diseases:

In case of infectious diseases, the patient is thrown into cold sweat, he is feverish. Viral pathologies: flu, HIV are accompanied by sweating when cold skin.
Migraine is diagnosed by frequent headaches that even wake a person up. He wakes up covered in cold sweat.
Withdrawal syndrome, characteristic of patients chronic alcoholism, accompanied by chills and cold sweat. An alcoholic sleeps restlessly and often wakes up in a cold sweat.
Mental illness are characterized constant sweating. Irritants when mental disorders There may be situations that a healthy person perceives as normal.
Anemia is almost always accompanied by a feeling of cold extremities. The patient often wakes up in cold sweat.
Cancer causes sweating and weight loss. Bad dream and general physical malaise often torment these patients.
Hormonal imbalances during menopause often cause cold sweats or hot flashes in women, causing them to suddenly wake up at night.
At hypertension horse racing blood pressure accompanied by sweating. The body includes protective property thermoregulation during contraction blood vessels. Taking diuretics ( medications, increasing the rate of urine formation) to lower blood pressure can provoke night awakening.
Disease thyroid gland affects psycho-emotional state sick. The condition of the thyroid gland affects physical state the whole body. Hormonal imbalance may cause cold sweat.

What to do if you wake up at night

If nighttime urination is a problem, you should limit your fluid intake after 7 p.m. Tea and coffee are natural diuretics, so you should avoid them in the evening. Infectious diseases genitourinary system, nocturia, kidney disease, diabetes mellitus can provoke the desire to urinate at night. It is worthwhile to treat the root cause, not the effect: to review the medications prescribed by the doctor against the disease. Replace those that are diuretics and have sleep disturbances as contraindications.

Watching your lifestyle will help you stop waking up at night. If you drank alcohol in the evening and waking up at night is associated with this fact, you should give up alcohol in the evening. Napping in front of the TV, like sleeping during the day, can cause you to wake up at night. Exercising and evening walks will help falling asleep quickly.

How not to wake up in the middle of the night

A comfortable bed, a high-quality mattress, and natural bed linen are the key to a healthy night’s rest, which contributes to feeling great person during the day. A ventilated room, a lack of noise, will help you avoid waking up at night. bright lighting, emotional experiences and others irritating factors. Those who sleep poorly should follow simple rules that will help restore normal night rest for 7-8 hours without waking up:

Dinner should be at least 2 hours before bedtime.
Resolution of important matters and their planning should be carried out in the morning and afternoon, taking care that your own nervous system could go into a calm mode in the evening.
An adult should go to bed before 11 pm. It is better for this to happen at the same time.
You need to choose for yourself the optimal number of hours for night rest, in which morning awakening will be comfortable.
A quiet walk before bed will help you get a good night's rest.
In the evening you can take a soothing warm bath from pine extract, With essential oils having a relaxing effect.
Just before going to bed, have a drink Herb tea from lemon balm, motherwort or warm milk with honey.
Relaxation, listening to pleasant, calm music, reading your favorite book will help you naturally fall asleep.

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At night I want to sleep peacefully and restore my strength. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find a person who has never encountered strange and unpleasant sensations accompanying going to bed.

website decided to talk about sleep disorders and other similar things that remain mysterious to science to this day.

Sleep paralysis

How does it feel: A person wakes up at night and cannot move. Mixed in with this are frightening hallucinations and the feeling that there is a stranger in the room. In ancient times, the condition was associated with the machinations of evil spirits.

Why does it occur: Normally, when we fall asleep, we are paralyzed so that we do not perform actions in our sleep. In sleep paralysis, our muscles “switch off” while the brain is still or no longer asleep.

Approximately 7% of the population has experienced sleep paralysis at least once (fact). They say this happens more often when sleeping on your back.

Hypnagogic hallucinations

How does it feel: When a person is on the thin line between sleep and wakefulness, he, while conscious, sees uncontrollable pictures before his eyes. Often these are scary faces and fantastic creatures.

Why does it occur: This is one of the few types of hallucinations that occur mentally. healthy people. Children usually experience them (fact), and this may be the reason why they do not want to go to bed. Often such hallucinations occur due to stress and simply in people with a good imagination. They may appear if you go to bed drunk.

Talking in your sleep

How does it feel: Usually the person himself who suffers from somniloquy (speaking in his sleep) does not even suspect it. This condition is not at all dangerous psychologically. Unless a person with such a problem is worried that he has said something unnecessary.

What causes: Somniloquy occurs more often in men and children (fact). The reason is the notorious stress. The human psyche tries to resist what he does not agree with in reality.

A dream within a dream

How does it feel: A person dreams, then wakes up, but strange things continue to happen to him. It turns out that he simply dreamed that he woke up. The theme of such dreams was raised in the film Inception. After this, it turned out that many people experienced this.

What causes: Esotericists believe that if you saw such a dream, this indicates your predisposition to spiritual practices. But official science cannot explain why this happens.

Somnambulism

How does it feel: This state is back sleep paralysis- consciousness sleeps, but muscle paralysis does not occur. While sleeping, people can walk, clean, or even leave the house, and this is often very dangerous. The next morning people don't remember anything.

What causes: Somnambulism occurs in approximately 4.6–10.3% of the population, and children are more likely to suffer from it (fact). The cause of sleepwalking is still unknown, as are the methods of treatment.

Exploding head syndrome

How does it feel: A person wakes up from the sensation of a loud explosion or bang. Sometimes it seems that the sound was so loud that you could go deaf. It may be accompanied by an increasing hum or flash. The phenomenon is not dangerous, but it causes fear in people; some think they are having a stroke.

What causes: For some reason, there is a surge of neural activity in the areas of the brain responsible for processing sound (fact). Sometimes the syndrome manifests itself against the background of insomnia or time zone change during long-distance flights.

Sleep apnea

How does it feel: Sleep apnea is sudden stop breathing in sleep. At the same time, the person wakes up. The quality of sleep decreases, the brain experiences oxygen starvation, it becomes difficult to get enough sleep. During an attack, blood pressure increases, which can cause heart problems.

What causes: During sleep, the muscles of the pharynx relax, in some people this leads to blockage of the airways. At risk are obese people, smokers, and the elderly. By the way, playing the Australian didgeridoo pipe helps with apnea (fact).

Recurring dreams

How does it feel: Probably everyone has had strange dreams that constantly reproduce the same plot.

What causes: Psychologists believe that with the help of such dreams, the brain tries to draw our attention to events that we are not aware of. These stories will return until the situation is resolved (

1. Feeling of falling. Also known as the hypnagogic jerk, it occurs when you begin to fall asleep. In a normal state, when you are sleeping, your body paralyzed, but sometimes your brain manages to fall asleep before your body shuts down. “During this state, you may dream that you are falling off a cliff, falling out of an airplane cabin, or simply losing your footing,” - explains Christopher Winter, Dr. medical sciences, a Men's Health sleep specialist and director of the sleep center at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Virginia. Why are we falling? Scientists cannot yet accurately answer this question. “This is most likely to happen when you are overtired, stressed or haven't slept a couple of days», - explains Dr. Winter. “In this state, your brain falls asleep much faster than your body.”

2. Paralysis. You start to wake up in the morning and are horrified to discover that you cannot move. This state can last from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. In essence, it is the opposite of a hypnagogic jerk, since in this case the brain wakes up before the body “turns on.” “You may feel like you can’t breathe. Some say that something literally presses them into the bed and does not allow them to breathe. This is because the muscles that control the diaphragm, like everything else in your body, are still paralyzed.", - explains Dr. Winter.

3. Sleepwalking. Most situations that occur during sleep are harmless. But sleepwalking represents serious danger: you can trip, fall out of a window, raid a refrigerator, leave home, and even get behind the wheel (it’s good that at least the banks don’t work at night, and you won’t get unprofitable loans). “When you sleepwalk, you wake up enough for your body to move, but not enough for your brain to be active.” - explains Dr. Winter. That's why you don't remember your nightly adventures. If your somnambulism is not congenital (for example, it is common in epileptics, you would probably notice this disease in yourself), then it can be caused by stress, overwork, and also some sleeping pills. So, if you are recently addicted to sleeping pills, then get rid of them and try following ours instead.

4. Talking in your sleep. About 5 percent of adult men talk in their sleep, according to a study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. As a rule, such monologues last no more than 30 seconds. " This often happens in the first 2 hours of sleep, when your body has already entered the deep sleep stage, but there is still enough muscle tone to make sounds or move according to the logic of your dreams,”- reassures Dr. Winter.

5. Recurring dreams."Dreams"- this is the way your brain evaluates and processes all the information received during the day before it is stored as memories. Also, recurring dreams can be caused by unresolved psychological problems», - explains Dr. Winter. Often recurring dreams are based on real events. “If you were robbed in a store, then it can play out in your dreams again and again until you begin to comprehend what happened and learn to live with it, whereas if you just ran into the store and bought milk, the brain immediately sends this event to scrap", - explains Winter.

6. Sex in a dream. If you woke up and suddenly found your girlfriend moaning with satisfaction under you, then do not rush to get scared. In a study conducted by the University Health Network in Toronto, about 8 out of 800 people confirmed that they were susceptible to sexsomnia, as scientists have dubbed the disorder. . “During my work, I discovered that the behavior of patients during sex in a dream is strikingly different from their actions and speech during normal sex,” - says Dr. Winter. This phenomenon is similar to sleepwalking: your body has already woken up, but your brain has not yet woken up from sleep. “Many people remember very vaguely what happened during their nightly adventures, or do not remember anything at all,”- states Dr. Winter. It's possible that you were just dreaming about having sex while you were falling asleep. In the same Toronto in 2003, a “sexual werewolf” was even acquitted, who almost raped a woman while he was in a sleeping state. Fortunately, “sex dormancy” can be treated with medication.

7. Exploding head syndrome. Dr. Winter describes this phenomenon in the following way: “A man wakes up from what he heard, as it seems to him, is real loud noise like an explosion, saw a flash of light or just felt his head explode.". This is a type of hypnagogic jerk, similar to the feeling of falling in a dream: you are already falling into deep sleep, but your body is still “on”, as are your senses.