Author: Zhouwei Yu (Master of Neurology)
A few days ago, a young lady asked me:
"Doctor, my male ticket will go to sleep for a second after the ticket is broken, is this normal?"
This question needs to be answered from two aspects:
1. Is it normal to sleep in seconds?
2. Is it normal to sleep after a second?
Let's start with seconds to sleep.
Frankly speaking, if you just talk about sleeping in seconds, you should really pay attention to whether there is a sleep problem. Because normal people need a period of excessive time from waking up to falling asleep, the professional saying is called "sleep latency".
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So, how little sleep latency is abnormal?
Unfortunately, there is currently no standard answer in academia, that is, so far, no normal sleep latency has been determined. The reasons are:
1. There is no large, systematic database for the average sleep latency of healthy individuals.
2. Even in healthy people, the fluctuation range of sleep latency is very wide.
Therefore, we can't just rely on "falling asleep quickly" to judge whether there is a sleep problem. However, if you are sleeping for seconds + sleepiness during the day, you need to be careful, and you need to evaluate whether there is a serious lack of sleep time, or a less common disease: narcolepsy.
So, this little sister, whether your male ticket has sleep problems, but also depends on his mental state during the day. If he is sleepy during the day, it indicates that there may be a sleep problem.
Let's talk about the "snap" problem.
Is it normal to fall asleep quickly after snapping? If you have to give an answer, this phenomenon is reasonable.
Many people will have this life experience: after snapping, it seems to sleep better. You may have thought it was caused by exhaustion, but it is not, and the truth involves changes in hormones in the body.
First, confirm the facts: Sex does make it easier for you to fall asleep.
That's because sex increases the release of oxytocin (making you feel intimate with your partner) and lowers cortisol levels (cortisol is a hormone associated with stress).
In addition, orgasms release a hormone called prolactin, which can make you feel relaxed and sleepy. Therefore, a satisfactory sex life can allow both parties to enter a comfortable, sleepy state.
For women, sex also has the benefit of raising estrogen levels, which can consolidate your REM sleep phase and also make you sleep deeper.
A satisfied relationship can improve sleep, and conversely, if sleep isn't satisfactory, it can also affect your libido.
I once had an outpatient who had a decreased libido due to severe snoring and sleep apnea (OSA) and had a worse sex life than before. Of course, people who usually stay up late and work overtime to cause sleep deprivation are also prone to decreased libido.
Therefore, this little sister, you go to sleep seconds after the male ticket is snapped, from the analysis just now, it is not an abnormal event.
In summary, snapping before going to bed can help you fall asleep faster. Also, if you feel a recent decrease in libido, self-evaluate yourself for sleep deprivation.
The next time you lie in bed, if you can't fall asleep, hmmm, you know what to do.
bibliography:
sleep.org：Is Sex Helping or Hurting Your Sleep?
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