Sleep - work - sleep: the ideal mode for night Creativity
Productivity A Life / / December 19, 2019
The clock half of the fourth, and you are suddenly awakened. You roll from one side to another, just can not fall asleep again, and angry with myself because of it. You are such a familiar story? In this article you will learn what to do in this situation and why the vigils are more good than evil.
Today, the eight-hour uninterrupted sleep is the norm. One can argue about a particular hour bedtimes and rise, but the fact that the time between the two points should be devoted to rest, no doubt. However, it was not always.
In past centuries, when there was no alarm clock in smart phones, smart phones themselves, and generally electricity, the daily routine was different. The man was more dependent on natural day and night, and it left its mark on his work and rest mode.
Every living organism has a built-in biological clock, which allow it to organically adapt to the natural cycle of daylight and darkness of night. However, with the advent of artificial lighting, convenience supermarkets and night television channels internal clock we do not need and gradually atrophied.
What was our sleep until all the benefits of civilization? Historian Roger Ekerch (Roger Ekirch) asked the question and analyzed the many historic documents, to get an answer. is he foundThat in the last century night's rest was divided into two segments, which are called "first sleep" and "second sleep." Each of them lasted for about four hours, and the spacing between them (1-2 hours) people filled those things that are not always had the time during the day: praying, talking, doing love.
So maybe our current nocturnal awakenings, no not a disease, and the recurrence of the old habits? Maybe it was not an aberration, but a return to our natural, long since forgotten rhythm of life? And if we can use these unintentional nocturnal waking hours with benefit to themselves?
Yes, Roger meets Ekerch in the book "At the end of the day. History Night "is possible. Night waking may well be time for you to the peak of their creative abilities, time for reflection and spiritual discovery. Night has very special aura that disappears pressurized daylight noise and general noise.
So learn can not oppose their sudden awakenings. Try not to swallow the darkness another sleeping pill and not to suffer torments of the imminent rise time, and sit down at my desk and start writing, drawing, analyze and to plan. Very soon you will find that this is the best and most productive time, when they come unusual thoughts, solved unsolvable problem and lines lie on paper is particularly quick and smooth. And after an hour or two you will again lie down and fall asleep calmly.
Such a segmented sleep suitable, of course, only those people who are not too tied mundane daily routine: students, freelancers, artists and people of other liberal professions. But it is quite possible that soon it will cease to be exotic, and we, along with the already familiar "owls" and "larks", we meet more and more "bats."
Have you tried to use a segmented sleep a night? And what are your impressions?