Today (March 21) is the 22nd World Sleep Day, and the Chinese theme of this World Sleep Day is "Good Sleep, Healthy Walking Together". On social media, "Who stole the sleep of young people?" "There are more than 300 million people in China with sleep disorders", "The important thing is not to sleep enough for 8 hours but to sleep enough sleep cycle", "playing mobile phones before going to bed will aggravate fatigue" and other World Sleep Day topics have been on the hot search, characterizing today's society Sleep has become a universal issue of national concern.
"Bouncing around during the day and sleeping well at night" is a simple depiction of a happy life for many people in the past, but it is not so easy to achieve now. According to the "2022 Chinese National Healthy Sleep White Paper" released by the Chinese Sleep Research Association and other institutions, 44% of young people aged 19-25 stay up late to zero o'clock, and 19-35 years old young adults are the age group with high incidence of sleep problems, and poor sleep has gradually become a common pain point for young people. Sleep disorders among young people have even spawned a hundred billion-dollar sleep aid market: steam eye masks, soundproof earplugs, melatonin gummies, sleep detectors... It has also spawned a new profession – network "sleeping" anchors.
Citizens greeted the arrival of World Sleep Day with the public performance art of open-air sleep
Who stole the sleep of young people? From the perspective of reality, young people staying up late can be roughly divided into two categories: one is passive staying up late, that is, wanting to go to bed early, being able to fall asleep but having to stay up late, such as overtime work, novice mothers with babies, high school students staying up late to study, etc.; the second is to stay up late, that is, to choose to stay up late to sleep, such as young people staying up late to play games, brush short videos, chasing dramas, watching ball games, clubbing, etc., these situations are also not in the minority. In the fast-paced working hours of the day, young people have no real self, and their leisure time after work is particularly precious, and many young people are immersed in their own world, and involuntarily develop the habit of sleeping late or even staying up late.
For younger groups, students, sleep deprivation is just as acute. According to the above-mentioned white paper, the average sleep of high school students surveyed is only 6.5 hours, the average sleep of junior high school students is 7.48 hours, and the average sleep of primary school students is 7.65 hours, although the sleep time has increased to varying degrees compared with the "double reduction" before the "double reduction", but compared with the Ministry of Education's "Notice on Further Strengthening the Sleep Management of Primary and Secondary School Students", "the sleep duration of primary school students, middle school students and high school students should reach 10 hours, 9 hours and 8 hours respectively", there is still a big gap. It is worth noting that the white paper shows that more than 60% of the surveyed adolescents use sleep time to play mobile phones, play games and chase dramas, and only 27% of the surveyed adolescents compress sleep time to write homework, which also shows that the use of electronic products for leisure and entertainment occupies more of students' sleep time.
First-year students of Hangzhou Yongzheng Experimental School prepare for a lunch break in the nap room. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi
For whatever reason, it has become an indisputable fact that young people are sleeping later and later. In the increasingly paced modern society, it is a good wish to call on young people to go to bed early, but as long as the basic structure of social operation remains unchanged, it may be difficult for young people to change their living habits. "Stay up the night at the latest, buy the most expensive eye cream", this is the survival philosophy of modern urban young people. In fact, for the scientific sleep time, experts and scholars are not consistent, some think that at least 8 hours of sleep, some say that sleep quality is more important. Embrace quality sleep by maintaining a healthy routine as much as possible, changing bad study, life, and work habits, and accepting a routine that can't be changed.
Instead of falling into insomnia and anxiety, it is better to accept the current state. Compared with the late sleep and stay up late of this generation of young people, the anxiety, depression, depression, irritability and even extreme tendencies caused by sleep disorders are more worthy of vigilance. Long night, can't sleep may wish to listen to a nostalgic old song, turn over a volume of literary classics, wait for drowsiness to naturally strike; if you want to work overtime to study, make yourself a cup of coffee, make a pot of tea, and do the work at hand. Not falling into unnecessary emotional attrition also helps to fall asleep peacefully.
Hot video recommendations
More
Pay attention to the "Guangming Times Review" WeChat video number
Source: Bright Times Review
Editor-in-charge: Wang Yuanfang
Editor: Zhang Yongqun, Sun Xiaoting