11 common myths about sleep

Russian Somnology, Academy of Natural Sciences, academician of MAN, professor Jacob Levin denied 11 myths about sleep.

The first myth: in his sleep the brain otdyhaet.Na really mind working with the same intensity as during wakefulness: analyzing the events, check the condition of internal organs and of the possible scenarios in the future. Thus, only the muscles relax, but the meaning of a dream is not to give them a rest. Its main function - to allow the brain to do all the work, which mentioned above.

Myth Two: there are prophetic sny.Professor argues that this is nonsense. Incidentally, this is exactly the case when science requires sacrifice - when he recently said about it on the set of a TV show, the ladies were present in the studio almost scored his hefty Dream book. In fact, one sees in a dream the possible scenarios that the brain is working. Most of them he immediately forgets. How prophetic dream will depend exclusively on the analytical abilities sleeping: "Someone from the very first pages of the detective guesses who the killer is. And someone had to finish reading the book to the end. " Therefore wipers "prophetic" dreams dreams rarely, and mathematics - often.

Myth Three: there are people who never spyat.Govoryat such a lot of sleepless among yogis. In fact, science is not aware of any such person on record.

Myth four: there are people who suddenly fall asleep, and then for many years can not prosnutsya.Esli Sleepless, according to mythology, lived somewhere in Tibet, then dormant for 20 years, live mainly in the Russian villages. "In our center constantly call people from remote villages to tell that they have some kind of grandmother who several years sleeping soundly. We are starting to question - as well as your grandmother goes to the toilet, as it eats? They say: "With our help." What is a dream? "- Said James Levine.

Myth Five: the weekend can be a good reality otospatsya.V extra hour of sleep in the output does more harm than good. To sleep a little bad, but even more harmful - behind schedule. "If you sleep little and get up at six in the morning, then at least make sure that, to get up every day at this time - not before and not after" - warns Levin. Catch up on sleep for a few days in advance, as well as eat, it will not turn. The resulting supply of energy in the body will spend the first Sunday - you just go to bed later than usual. "A few years ago, the Americans noticed that on Monday morning, the number of accidents on the road several times higher than on other days. We started to figure out the reason. It was found at the weekend the Americans slept longer than an average of 1 hour and 20 minutes and went on an hour later, "- said a sleep. Because of this crash occurred lifecycle, worsened health and decreased attention on the road.

Myth Six: if the work day through three, then three days can vyspatsya.Nauka proved - if a person does not sleep a single night at least, the body will be severely damaged: change all the biochemical parameters, including the biochemistry of the brain. These rates are reduced to second or third day, but a full recovery of the body is still not happening - in the US surveyed people who because of their work did not sleep a day a week for six months. It turned out, they are five times more likely to develop diabetes, hypertension and two dozen diseases.

Myth Seven: all lunatics sne.Deskat walk in, they can go out the window instead of the door, or play the piano, and some even have sex and then do not want to recognize the unconscious conceived children. All these facts really proven science. However, the "sleepwalking" - an extremely rare phenomenon. Most sleepwalkers during sleep do not go anywhere - they just sit on the bed and, after sitting for a while, lay down again.

Myth Eight: dream periods alternate with a phase when we are nothing vidim.Ranshe believed that dreams one sees only in the fast phase of sleep. Now it is proved that the slow phase is also accompanied by dreams. But it is slow and that all slow down - if we see a rapid phase complete "movie", the slow - "images and photos».

Myth Nine: all hypnotics vredny.Sovremennye drugs, unlike the old, harmless, says the professor. We just do not mix old with new tools - for the production of obsolete products also has not been canceled. For Russians, by the way, a sleep disorder it happens: "We live in a country shocks, and are entitled to a bad dream," - said Jacob Levin.

Myth Ten: sleepless people die on the fifth sutki.Deystvitelno, if not to sleep creatures like rats, then on the fifth-sixth day it will die. But the man is not. After five days he dies - he begins to sleep with your eyes open. "You can not continue to give him to sleep, to wake him - he will walk, talk, answer your questions, do some work, but do it in a dream," - said a sleep. After waking up a man, like a lunatic, absolutely nothing will remember.

Myth Eleven: women sleep longer than men. "On this subject, it was a huge amount of research, - told Jacob Levin. - Some studies have shown that women really sleep longer than men for 15-20 minutes. Other studies have produced quite the opposite result - it turned out that sleep longer just a man, and at the same 15-20 minutes. As a result, scientists are agreed on the fact that men and women have the same length of sleep. " Longer sleep only pregnant.

At the same time the different attitudes of different sexes to sleep. Men tend to think that he had slept well; Woman, on the contrary, often says: "Oh! I did not sleep! "However, studies show that the quality of sleep and the other about the same.

It is proved that the longest sleeping sanguine - for 8-9 hours. They are so impressionable that if they see a porn movie before bed or survive some more emotional distress, and duration of REM sleep, during which the brain digests the information, immediately increased. Well, the least sleep melancholic - them to sleep, is often sufficient 6:00.

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