Produced by | Tiger Sniff Youth Culture Group
In Fight Club, Edward Norton perfectly portrays the daily routine of a severe insomniac — he is pale, has plump eye bags, and hangs fifty degrees of black circles every day, bumping around everywhere.
He wouldn't really fall asleep or be fully awake.
Seeing such an interpretation more than a decade ago, we felt magical.
But now, insomnia, a problem that occurs more often in middle-aged and elderly people, has quietly come to the pillow of young people.
The latest online statistics released by Ai Media Consulting show that in 2021, China's insomnia population has exceeded 300 million. Among them, young people aged 19-30 account for far more than 40-50 middle-aged and elderly people.
Among netizens under the age of 18, 41.7% have regular insomnia. Between the ages of 31 and 40, only 5% of netizens have never lost sleep.
Data is cold, but insomniacs' hearts are colder than data—they do everything they can to put themselves to sleep and find everything in vain.
Some people take melatonin and sleeping pills every day, but the dose is added again and again, and finally until it is ineffective; some people frantically buy sleep essential oils and sleep sprays, trying to numb their brains, but the feeling of excitement is still rampant; some people put down their mobile phones two hours before going to bed to play sleep music, but they watch the dawn break, and they only think they are funny.
And the most frightening thing is that many people have a fear of sleep because they are full of insomnia. When it comes to sleeping, it's anxiety. Finally a kind of sleeping ptsd is formed.
Our anchor @ Cucumber Soda is such a woman who has experienced many vicissitudes.
Her insomnia began at the age of 18, and she has used countless sleep aids over the years. But most of them are tasteless and expensive to abandon.
So before the International Day of Sleep on March 21, she embarked on a path to find sleep.
After experiencing insomnia cause screening, psychological counseling, hypnosis and self-analysis, she has a new understanding of her insomnia -
First of all, it is anxiety, hormones, nutrient abnormalities that make it difficult for her to fall asleep. Then, the fear of not being able to sleep triggered a new round of insomnia.
Guided by a hypnotist, she experienced a wonderful and comfortable sense of sleep. I also know that sometimes giving up sleeping is the best hypnosis.
She knows more about her sleep and has a lot to say to us.
These words may have some unexpected effects on insomnia patients, and can make people stop being afraid of sleeping. Or maybe these words don't help every insomniac.
But in any case, she wants us to know that sleep is a human instinct, it is natural, and we must believe in ourselves.
Here's her experience