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Wen | human pixels, the author | Tang Yunlu
Why can't this year's young people sleep?
"It's not that I have to stay up late, it's just that the phone is too fun and the night is too beautiful."
"I'm going to get up at six o'clock every morning, but the sooner I get up, the more I can't sleep at night."
"Because I don't want to end the mediocre today, and I don't want to start the mediocre tomorrow."
"I drank a cup of milk tea at four o'clock in the afternoon, and I was unusually sober at eleven o'clock in the evening."
"When the mother never slept all night, after feeding the baby night milk in the middle of the night, changing the diaper is not wet, she can never go back to sleep." 」
We all know how important it is to get a good night's sleep.
One-third of a person's life is spent in sleep, in which the human body repairs DNA, restores physical strength, and heals itself, as the British scientist Matthew Walker wrote in the book "Why We Sleep": "To restore the brain and physical health to the best state, the only thing we can do and the most effective thing is sleep, which is the best way to fight death that nature has given us." ”
But now having a good night's sleep has become an increasing luxury.
The night is like a net, holding all our emotions, and all the things that are covered by the sun during the day are suddenly invisible.
March 21 is World Sleep Day, the "China Sleep Research Report (2022)" released by the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows that no more than 8% of the country sleep more than 8 hours, 57.41% of the respondents said that they had 1-7 days of insomnia in the past month, and another "2022 Chinese National Healthy Sleep White Paper" released by the Chinese Sleep Research Association and other institutions showed that 44% of young people aged 19 to 25 stayed up late until after midnight. Bad living habits, psychological disorders caused by work and study pressures, etc. are "stealing" young people's sleep.
The reasons for not being able to sleep vary, people have tried their best to defend sleep, and in today's article, the questions we are not prepared to answer include: "What if I can't sleep?" "How can I sleep better?" "What are the dangers of not sleeping well?"
What we want to express through the collection of these seven stories about sleep is that life is too much not easy, no matter what the reason for not being able to sleep, you are not alone.
Because I can't sleep and start playing with yarn, I don't have time to sleep now to catch orders
@Pentagon / 32 years old
Auxiliary police, handicraft enthusiasts
Pentagon can't remember why he couldn't sleep in the first place.
"It could be because I used to breastfeed at night, or maybe it's because I always have to cover my child with a quilt at night." She said, "Maybe it's because I'm always busy during the day, but at night when the child sleeps and can finally do his own thing, he can't sleep." ”
Now the "own thing" in the mouth of the five corners is to use wool to do handicrafts.
Last year, Pentagon found herself in a very bad state of emotions, and she began to try to do crafts according to online tutorials. "In the summer, a friend said he wanted a bag, took a picture and asked if I would, I said I could try it, and then I made it."
The first package is inevitably rough, but the sense of accomplishment of finally making the material package into a finished product is difficult to replace. It takes 2-3 days to start knitting a woolen pouch, but immersing herself in the world of yarn is a healing one for her. Sometimes the hook hooks, look up at the time, and see that it is already 3:30 at night.
"Notes on letting Pentagon's work "out of the loop""
Pentagon's "stand-alone" handicraft career took a turn for the worse one day in December, when a photo she casually posted on the Little Red Book garnered more than 2,500 likes, and countless private messages poured into her, asking for a handmade wool bag of the same type.
In order not to live up to the enthusiasm of netizens, she could only take advantage of the free time to weave the five corners after work to invite her mother to "save the field", and turned out her mother's early works when knitting with her mother, and she found that "the original hobby of playing yarn was written in the genes." ”
In three months, Wu Jiao and her mother knitted no less than 70, and the time to complete a bag was accelerated from two and a half days to less than a day. After entering the spring, she began to study the weaving method of the new bag type.
Although I still can't sleep, who can say that the night spent with my hobby is disappointed?
"I bought a black and white phone and didn't bring a glowing screen into the bedroom"
@Yaya / 30 years old
Freelance screenwriter
After becoming a freelance screenwriter, Yaya went to sleep later and later, "from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock and then to 4 o'clock." My husband would complain that he wanted to hang out together on the weekends, but I had to sleep until 12 o'clock. ”
When she made up her mind to adjust her routine, her eyes began to feel uncomfortable. Yaya had myopia surgery two years ago and got rid of the glasses she had worn for more than a decade, but recently she felt that her eyesight had declined and her eyes often felt dry, which she felt had a lot to do with the endless use of mobile phones.
"I decided I had to make a change, or the surgery would be in vain." She said, "Moreover, I don't like myself who is so undisciplined." ”
After deciding to adjust her schedule, Yaya found that various "high-quality sleep guidelines" mentioned the impact of electronic screens on sleep. She spent five hundred yuan to buy a second-hand mobile phone with an electronic ink screen and left her daily mobile phone outside the bedroom.
Before going to bed, she used this black-and-white screen mobile phone to listen to books, or read e-books, away from the stimulation of color screens in the dark.
At the same time, she also seriously thought about the reason for staying up late all year round. "The deep reason may be professional anxiety, do not want to wake up and face their own can not write the next day, just want to extend today indefinitely." 」
However, going to bed early and going to bed late will always come tomorrow.
Now Yaya has at least solved the problem of whether she will be energetic when tomorrow comes.
"On the front line of the fight against the epidemic, it is common for day and night to be reversed"
@Xiaoying / 33 years old
Employees of state-owned enterprises
Xiaoying is not the kind of person who actively loses sleep.
As an employee of a state-owned enterprise, as long as the epidemic prevention and control needs, Xiaoying will be transferred to the front line for support.
After two rounds of "lockdown", Xiaoying has become accustomed to being a 24-hour standby routine for grassroots workers. In the days of continuous nucleic acid, she and her colleagues basically arrived at work at four o'clock in the morning, encountered unexpected situations, and made a phone call in the middle of the night to ask for work, which was also "too normal".
Several times, because of the urgency of the situation, it was too late to return to the isolation hotel to rest, and Xiaoying spent the night in the car.
"Another night in the car, Xiaoying took a picture of the scenery outside the car window."
Although the nucleic acid test task is completed in the morning and the afternoon can be rested, it is not so easy to make up for the night's sleep during the day. What's more, it is the busiest first quarter, and sometimes the work of the original unit has to be handled remotely after the epidemic support is completed. "Although people are in the community, they can't leave their jobs behind."
Now because the city where Xiaoying is handled properly, Xiaoying has returned to work and started the "two-point and one-line" life from unit to home, and her biggest wish is that the epidemic will not be repeated, and she will no longer have to worry about being shouted up from sleep and live a stable life of sleeping until dawn.
"Naked for a month, I can't sleep"
@M fish / 25 years old
Brand consulting
A month after the departure of the industry's well-known "Whampoa Military Academy", M Fish's mentality gradually went all the way down to the brink of collapse.
"Naked words" is what MYu did not expect, the original plan was to rest for a few days, adjust the state, and go to the new owner to join. But this spring's job market was so variable that the new job she said was gone, and she had to fall into a cycle of constantly submitting resumes, waiting for notifications, and preparing for interviews.
Naturally, M fish lost sleep.
"I know anxiety is useless, but it just can't be controlled." She lay down at 2 o'clock every day, brushing her mobile phone to help sleep, but the mobile phone is like really has a "wiretap function", "the article it pushed me is all kinds of naked words, I can't find a job, the epidemic affects employment, I can't sleep." ”
During the month, her sleep plummeted to more than three hours than she had previously caused overtime to be less than seven hours. "Every day I fall asleep around 5 a.m., wake up at 8 a.m., sometimes go to sleep at 3 a.m., and wake up at 6 a.m."
After hanging up the last round of interviews with dream offers, M fish's anxiety reached its peak. "I know now that for people like me, even if it is tired or can't find meaning, work itself is a kind of rush of life." 」
On the days when the work was not settled, the life of the M fish suddenly lost its direction.
"M fish prepares a lot for the dream offer"
After a few days of depression, Myu's "self-help" is to move in with friends and fill up his life - submitting resumes, self-taught data analysis courses, exercising, getting up and chatting with friends when he really can't sleep, rather than thinking about it alone.
By now, M fish have become accustomed to coexisting with anxiety. She began to see the experience as an opportunity god had given her. "Let me hone my mind and my ability to accept uncertainty."
"Even though I'm suffering now, I don't regret leaving my former company, nor do I regret rejecting the offer from that consulting firm." She said, "It's just that if I had a chance to do it all over again, I would have wished I had done it more sleek and rounded." ”
"After years of insomnia, I decided to write insomnia into a novel"
@Minus 2 / 40 years old
Writer, literary editor
Writers rarely seem to have a normal schedule.
Negative two is no exception.
Falling asleep before 3 a.m. every day, my daughter, who comes to the weekend, often complains that he wakes up too late and doesn't prepare breakfast. "I can only take her to eat something good for lunch."
The history of insomnia of negative two has fifteen or six years, initially because of the need to rush the draft, found that the writing efficiency at night is high, will not be disturbed, but later when the draft will also be insomnia, sleep gradually left him.
By recent years, he had slept more and more late, more than half because he spent too much time on social media during the day and needed to be alone for a while at night to regain his ability to think and see something.
Thinking differently at night is different from thinking during the day, and people who have insomnia tend to think alone. Insomnia patients are always lonely, but negative two feel that insomnia is not a serious disease, but it makes the daytime energy is not enough, the efficiency is not high, it seems "24 hours is not enough", there is no need to be too "miserable".
He started a new series of creations, a column called "Insomnia Syndrome", and wanted to write a series of stories about insomniacs. At first, he wanted to borrow the form of "Screws Tightening", a group of insomniacs sat around and talked about why they had insomnia, but the result was that he wrote back to his good form of creation- a little mournful, and a little absurd.
Today's negative two, lying down and finding that you can't sleep, will get up to tidy up the room, clean up, or eat something. "In short, you can't lie there and toss and turn."
"Insomnia is actually the body's wake-up call to itself"
@Miranda / 29 years old
Purchasing Analyst
Miranda's insomnia symptoms are not going to bed late, but waking up early. "The most serious time is to sleep at one o'clock in the morning, and when I wake up, I find that it is only three o'clock, and I can't sleep anymore."
Initially insomnia was a gamble.
When I studied abroad, I changed my major and transferred from a communication major to an economic management major. "In this way, you may not be able to get a degree, but I told the college that I could take the exam after passing, so I studied hard, and I reviewed for many days in a row to prepare for the exam directly, and I basically didn't sleep, and then I fell ill."
Everyone's method of fighting insomnia is different, Miranda has tried a lot over the years, the most useful of which are three: eating sour dates, exercise, and going to bed early.
"Scenery taken by early sports"
The role of exercise is to make people "forget themselves". "When you forget about everything, some sounds that you ignore begin to become apparent, such as breathing, such as heartbeat. As your breathing slowly changes from rapid to peaceful, the body begins to regain a healthy rhythm in it. "After overcoming insomnia, the biggest difference between her and the past is the time she falls asleep." Go to bed at 10:30 a.m., get up at 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m., get up and go out to exercise for half an hour, and be full of energy throughout the day. ”
Insomnia is actually a wake-up call for the body to remind itself not to sacrifice sleep time to make up for the homework that you have not done well. Miranda's commitment to the body begins with early bedtime, aided by exercise and herbal medicine. When she first tried to go to bed early, she would still wake up very early, but she insisted on getting up at seven o'clock and insisted on getting up and exercising to help refresh her mind.
After a while, she went from sleeping every three to five to almost forgetting that she had insomnia, which for her was almost the "beginning of a new life."
Digging deeper, Miranda felt that the word "cautious independence" had helped her. "I used to think that as long as the content presented to others is perfect, it doesn't hurt to stay up all night to steal a lazy, but in fact, if you stay up late, chase deadlines, and be lazy and don't do housework, others may not necessarily know, your body absolutely knows." 」
"Investing goes through a process of neurotransmission, but fortunately I have already completed it"
@ Chen Fengben / 35 years old
Industry research
"I may be the opposite of your manuscript."
In this spring when many individual investors tossed and turned, and insomnia because of the collapse of income, Chen Fengben was one of the few who kept going to bed early and getting up early and working regularly.
"My sleep has not been good, but I can't sleep because I lose money, so I don't."
There are many "basic people" who entered the market around the second half of 2020, and the complaints about the market have reached their peak in recent days. But for Chen Fengben, who began to contact the stock market in 2016, these are all familiar stories.
"Investing, like all gambling, must have a process, from a stage where you care about profit and loss and it is difficult to control yourself, to the slow blunting of nerves." Chen Fengben completed this process, which lasted about seven years and crossed two short cycles of the market.
Nowadays, he quit his job as a product manager, using stock speculation as a tool to invest in the future, in addition to personal investment, he will write daily observations of the market and the industry in a public account based on investment research, the subscription scale is not large, but many readers are veterans of long-term observation of the industry.
The treacherous market situation that the global financial market has been experiencing since March may be more of a sense of participation in "witnessing history" for Chen Fengben. "On the day of the plunge in The Chinese stock market, I didn't feel anything at the time, and the tension may have been subconscious, but it wasn't until Saturday that I relaxed and suddenly felt tired, because in the epic sell-off, there were both opportunities and risks."
In this festival set up to emphasize sleep, we would like to wish you a good night's sleep day and night.
But just like living habits and habits, everyone has a different sleep rhythm, some people are used to sleeping late, and some people are born to be "early star people", if you really can't sleep, it doesn't matter.
May your night not be wasted.
Good luck sleeping better than yesterday.