So we specially invited Mr. Buffy, the consultant of the small courtyard ~
Made a late-night talk show ~
("Late Night" doesn't mean a late-night column, but an interview about "Late Night". Don't misunderstand me. )
Nowadays, insomnia is widespread in urban population. Even without insomnia, many people have the habit of staying up late. It seems that we all become unwilling to sleep. Modern people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, which seems very extravagant. What are the self-evident psychological reasons behind staying up late?
Bian Xiao: Do you have the habit of staying up late? What do you usually do without sleep?
Buffy: Speaking of staying up late, I usually don't fall asleep at night 1 1, even if I stay up late. According to this standard, I have no habit of staying up late at present. But think about it, I have been sleeping very late since the baby was born. Work during the day and take care of the children after work. After the children fall asleep, they can control their own time. Usually this time is used for reading and writing.
On the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, some people collected the sleep self-report data of more than 200 participants with different races, education levels, marriages and professional status. 30% of these people slept less than 6 hours, and 84% of the participants reported that they felt too little sleep at least one day a week and were listless during the day. More than 40% people are tired three to seven days a week.
Bian Xiao: Is it because people are under great pressure at work, and staying up late is psychological compensation for themselves?
Buffy: Compensation is a common psychological mechanism. For example, when I was a child, my family was poor and I always lacked clothes. When I grow up and have the conditions, I like to buy all kinds of clothes.
For us under the background of commercial society, we are busy with work during the day, plus the inevitable time consumption such as transportation, food, housework and social interaction. Let us often feel depressed and helpless involuntarily, and will accumulate a lot of anxiety over time. Naturally, I hope to have more free time to relax and relax to vent and compensate myself.
It is not a bad thing to ask for compensation. However, if staying up late becomes a strong resistance to sleep or even a sense of panic, or it is easy to get excited before going to bed, there will be repeated compulsive ideas and behaviors of not sleeping, and you will feel some anxiety. It is possible to form a compulsive staying up late, just like buying clothes out of control and becoming a "shopaholic", and this compensation becomes inappropriate and overcompensated.
In addition, there is a kind of compensation, which obviously means regret. They make up for their work during the day by night. During the day, they easily feel too much pressure in their work and interpersonal relationships, and it is difficult to concentrate on finishing their work efficiently. I don't have a high opinion of myself, and I feel that I need to compensate for my mediocre feeling during the day at night.
No matter what kind of compensation above, staying up late is the inner need for solitude.
Bian Xiao: Is it a basic need for people to enjoy solitude?
Buffy: Socialization and solitude are two lifestyles and basic needs. Contemporary people tend to pay more attention to socializing and neglect solitude. In a sense, being alone is more important than socializing! From the psychological point of view, the reason why people need to be alone is to integrate ourselves. In other words, it is necessary to think, sort out and summarize the information we receive and experience in social activities such as work and study, and put it in an appropriate position in our internal memory. The process of integration is like the process of self-digestion and absorption of information experience. The ability to be alone is related to whether a person can truly form a relatively self-sufficient inner world and have a relatively healthy and objective self-identity, thus affecting the performance of individuals in interpersonal communication and social life.
Bian Xiao: A lot of information makes the brain run at high speed. Will it also make it difficult to sleep?
Buffy: Yes, according to statistics, some people devote their late nights to various social activities, such as "party coffee". More people spend their time on the internet, which is inseparable from mobile phones and computers. If you do too exciting activities at night, especially before going to bed, and take in too much novel information, it will cause brain nerve excitement and make it difficult or unwilling to fall asleep.
In addition, some people stay up late, which is related to the "Ze Genik effect". Sometimes, try not to think about things that haven't been solved during the day, even though you know this problem is very difficult and not easy to solve. But when I suddenly woke up before or after I fell asleep, these things came back to my mind. It's hard for us to forget the unfinished things in our minds. Even if our consciousness forgets, our subconscious will make us feel anxious. These people often expect too much from themselves and their grades, which may easily lead to excessive stress, anxiety and depression, and lead to sleep problems.
Bian Xiao: Does staying up late have a great influence on the physical and mental health of ordinary people?
Buffy: Yes, sleep plays a role in regulating our cognitive nerves, vascular pressure, mood and stress. When people are sleeping, their brains are actively resting, forming new neural circuits to help them learn and remember information. Lack of sleep will change the neural activity in some parts of the brain, affecting attention, judgment, learning ability, emotional control ability and so on. Severe sleep deprivation also increases the risk of depression and suicide.
Bian Xiao: From a psychological point of view, how to adjust your mentality and have a good sleep?
Buffy: The reason behind the behavior of staying up late is that people have no better and more positive ways to relax and reduce stress. Failure to deal with stress will lead to inferiority, feeling incompetent and worthless, and then feeling that life is out of control and self-control is reduced.
Believe in yourself and improve your self-confidence. Give yourself more psychological hints of encouragement and encourage yourself when you are relaxed and calm every day. Learn to discover your strengths and advantages. For learning, work needs to be done step by step, and you need to master some methods and skills of managing time to increase your sense of control. After the sense of personal control is enhanced, the sense of stress will also decrease. Combining work and rest, you can do sports and engage in some healthy hobbies after work. If your situation is difficult to adjust itself, don't avoid the question. It is recommended to seek professional help.
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