What To Do If You Have Insomnia: Adapt Your Sleep Rhythm

Sleep-wake cycles are sometimes seen as fixed and established, but they change with age, social and environmental circumstances, and even mood. In order not to suffer insomnia at night, it is convenient to adapt to these sleep rhythms during the day.

More awake during the day to sleep better at night

What is the most effective thing that the body has to counteract insomnia? The dream. And what can follow the deepest sleep? The opposite: a strong and prolonged insomnia.

Both follow one another as a sinusoid curve : what makes one part higher will make the other lower in order to tend towards equilibrium.

Sleep and wakefulness go hand in hand.

The vigil us is provided as well as a therapeutic tool to recover sleep.

Waking not only favors a deeper sleep, but it enriches our experience in some way : it helps to understand the night, it serves to train to survive in dangerous or adverse situations, it modifies consciousness, it helps to value the nocturnal silence, to know the world of light and shadow, namely that there is life in the night and in the day.

But in this society where sleep is not respected, it is very difficult for people to keep awake during the day. Thus a society of lazy people has been formed who spend part of the day sleepy and functioning like automatons.

There are also people who, because they do not make sleep vital and necessary, doze during the day and then suffer from insomnia at night. They abuse sleep and to enjoy it more afterwards they swell to take sleeping pills.

At the same time, environmental conditions, and in particular artificial lights, are altering our circadian rhythm. To avoid this it is necessary, once again, to get a good night’s sleep and stay awake during the day.

Changing the rhythm: how to adapt to a new sleep schedule?

Among medical and nursing professionals, firefighters and waiters, keeping awake is part of the profession : duty shifts and emergency assistance are carried out at night.

It is so important to sleep and do well that causing a continuous state of wakefulness has been used as a means of torture, the so-called brainwashing. This practice is incapable of resisting even the most brave heroes, because after several days without sleep, the personality is completely lost and the will declines.

Therefore, to train in wakefulness you have to do it little by little, gradually. You can start one day a week: go to bed two hours later and get up an hour earlier.

But before practicing wakefulness at night, it is necessary to practice sleeping well and keeping awake during the day : controlling thought and staying relaxed without abandonment and active without agitation.

However, there is a case in which wakefulness can or should be exercised: insomnia. If you suffer from insomnia, there is no need to fear being awake. Provoking it over time helps attract deep sleep.