Don't envy 'sleep less at Versailles'

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abstract: Some people sleep very little and still have a lot of energy, but I don't envy it. Scientific evidence shows that there are significant individual differences in sleep. I leaned wearily against the table in the living room, carrying my third cup of coffee, feeling dizzy and nauseous due to lack of sleep - I only slept yesterday6One and a half hours - I was thinking about a special kind of ...
Some people sleep very little and still have a lot of energy, but I don't envy it. Scientific evidence shows that there are significant individual differences in sleep.

Don't envy 'sleep less at Versailles'221 / author: / source:Financial Times

I leaned wearily against the table in the living room, carrying my third cup of coffee, feeling dizzy and nauseous due to lack of sleep - I only slept yesterday6Half an hour - I was thinking about a special annoying person, and my life seemed to be filled with this person: 'Sleepless Versailles'.

It's the kind of person who seems to survive with very little sleep - even living very well; The kind of person who doesn't seem to feel tired is a forever interesting and resonant chat topic; It is the type of person who is as energetic and happy in the morning as at any other time of the day (refer to "Early Rise Versailles"). I hate these people. They either made me feel ashamed of my laziness, or lured me to revel late at night knowing that I had to wake up early the next day. Unlike them, I definitely feel terrible when I wake up.

Oh, but I know many of these people. I have a colleague who works every morning2Click to write a humorous newsletter, take a nap for just a few minutes, and set the alarm clock for morning8When you arrive at the office, you are full of vitality. I also have a fashion CEO friend who has just become a mother and has never left《Vogue》The magazine page has the most active social life I know, with a maximum of only four hours of sleep per night. I also have a friend whose father is a scholar at the University of Cambridge. During one meditation session, he asked God to grant him a miracle that would allow him to wake up with less than seven or eight hours of sleep per day. Since then, he can happily jump out of bed by sleeping for six hours every day (real life and real things).

I am not such a person. In an ideal situation, I would sleep every night9An hour, maybe even9Half an hour. On weekends, if I don't get enough sleep (as I often do), I will take a long sleep like a teenage girl (the last comfortable sleep has lasted)12Over an hour). Did I do anything wrong? Should I feel ashamed? Should I also request God's intervention, or at least try to train myself to sleep less?

As if to further mock me, a new study on Tuesday showed that,5Hourly sleep is the 'critical point, missing it is not conducive to health'. Can I infer from this that sleeping every night6reach7An hour should be enough? Fortunately, Oxford University(Oxford university)Circadian rhythm neuroscience professor Russell Foster(Russell Foster)Tell me it's not like this. He emphasized that 'there are significant differences in individual sleep', so for some people, this critical point may actually be6Hours or7Hours, or even longer.

Foster said there is no fixed number on how much sleep we should get. On the contrary, we should figure out this number ourselves, based on whether we feel energized. A simple test method is whether we wake up before the alarm goes off in the morning - if we don't, we are likely to lack sleep.

Insufficient sleep not only leads to poor physical health - it can lead to an increase in cortisol levels, which in turn suppresses the immune system; It can also lead to poor mental health. For example, Foster cited two researchers from Harvard University2006A study in found that people who lack sleep are more likely to remember negative memories for a long time and less likely to remember positive memories. He said, "Your worldview is skewed towards negative experiences, which means you may make some very serious mistakes in how to manage your life

However, scientific research on sleep may be confusing. Multiple studies have shown that sleep duration is long - exceeding7or8Hours are associated with higher mortality rates.

But simply because longer sleep time is associated with higher mortality rates does not necessarily mean it is the fault of sleep. Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Why We Sleep"(Matthew Walker)tell me:We have causal evidence that short sleep time is harmful to you, but there is no causal evidence that long sleep time is harmful to you, "Walker said. There is evidence that studies have shown that the reason for this correlation is that people with poor health tend to sleep more to compensate, and sleep quality - which is crucial - has not been taken into account in these studies.

So, yes, 'Sleeping less at Versailles' may have some strange and energetic social advantage, but I have no feelings about it. I don't want to train myself to reduce my sleep needs - as far as I am concerned, that time is not a waste; On the contrary. I want to enjoy sleep; Immerse yourself in it to the fullest. Because regardless of Bon Jovi(Bon JoviHe has a song called《I'll Sleep When I'm Dead》)How to say, if you want to live while alive, then you cannot postpone sleeping until after death.
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