Who can be called a morning alarm his personal curse? It turns out that you can get rid of it, and it does not necessarily move to freelance or force the bosses to put up with your tardiness. You can wake up on time, and at the same time feel a lot more energetic and happier. These capabilities are stored in your body, you just have to learn how to use them.
In your brain, the hypothalamus, there is an area called the nucleus supraziazmalnoe. It is responsible for the circadian rhythm, ie, regulates your circadian rhythms of wakefulness and sleep. In addition, this area is responsible for the blood pressure, body temperature and a sense of time.
If you observe a certain mode - go to bed at the same time and wake up at predetermined hours, the brain remembers it, and set a clear circadian rhythm.
PER protein and sleep cycles
sleep cycle and your body awake depends on the amount of PER protein, the level of which varies throughout the day. In the evening, the level rises and falls at night. When the protein level of the lowest, the pressure drops, the pulse slows down, you find it hard to think and you really want to sleep.
If you get used to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, your body will begin to produce more protein PER just before awakening. About an hour before you wake up, along with level PER body temperature and pressure to rise to prepare your body to stress that it experiences from awakening.
Immediately prior to the awakening of the body emits in the blood are a cocktail of hormones, which include cortisol (stress hormone), and your sleep becomes less deep.
Your body hates Service
If you get used to the fact that the alarm beeps every morning, for example, at 7:00, your body is going to wake up before it will ring, and here's why: the body hates Service. For him, this stress and shock, which destroys all the careful work of your awakening.
The body increases the level of the PER protein, filled with blood hormones to slow you ready for a new day and gradually woke up, but the sudden alarm sounds destroyed all his work.
And to your alarm clock could no longer do so bad, body, accustomed to a certain rhythm, waking up a few minutes before the apartment is filled with hateful morning ringing.
Even at night, for a certain time until the alarm, your body starts to increase the amount of PER protein and stress hormones. Thus, he has a head start to slowly wake up to an alarm, and this process is so precise that you open your eyes in just a few seconds or minutes before the call.
Sleep and wake up experiment
Scientists from the University of Lubeck in Germany conducted an experiment that proves all of the above. 15 volunteers for three nights slept in the laboratory. They were warned that once they wake up at 6 am, and in the remaining days of experimenters at 9am. In fact, scientists have gathered every day to wake them 6.
When the volunteers knew that they were awakened at 6 am, stress hormones began to be produced at 4:30, so that they could gradually wake up. When they thought they would be woken up at 9:00 am and got up at 6:00, stress hormones generally did not develop, resulting in the experiment participants feel sluggish and sleepy.
In other words, if our bodies know what time we're going to wake up, they are preparing for this in advance, and we feel better and more energetic.
On whom it does not work?
If you do not wake up to an alarm clock, or even go to sleep after he went off, it means:
- You sleep enough time
- You have not kept sleep
For example, if during the week you wake up at 7:00 am, and on weekends like to lie in bed till noon, get off your internal clock and the body just does not know when to prepare for revival. The result - when you wake up sharply from the alarm sounds, the body no stress hormones and you feel irritable, lethargic and sleepy.
Just know this: you can wake up refreshed without an alarm clock, your body, as a universal, ideal oiled machine can do it regularly. Only need a bit of discipline to train yourself to sleep and wake-up graphics.