How to sleep well at home? The tricks of the great writers to help sleep

During the period of the national stay-at-home fight against the epidemic, the upside-down schedule has caused many people to have sleep problems. The freedom to sleep late during the day and not to sleep at night has become a reality. Some big writers have more or less their own preferences and habits in the face of sleep, Lu Xun is a night owl, Zhang Ailing copied 10,000 words before going to bed in order not to insomnia, Haruki Murakami is a nap master, Lin Yutang's one-hour bed before going to bed is the source of inspiration...

Even if people have the freedom to control sleep at home, they are accustomed to sleeping late. Procrastination and retaliatory staying up late has become a very reasonable excuse to sleep late, lying down to brush your phone, chasing dramas, chatting with friends, adding supplies ready to buy to the shopping cart, so that it is already early in the morning after the end of a series of processes. Let's see how big writers spend their bedtime moments at home———

Sleeping makes life less difficult

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami thinks that nothing compares to sleeping well. He once said: "If there is no sleep, my life and works will be much darker." "It is said that Haruki Murakami starts working at 4:00 a.m. every day and works for 5-6 hours continuously. In the afternoon, Haruki Murakami will choose to listen to jazz vinyl or choose to read, and go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening. In addition, he has healthy habits of running exercise.

"When I think about sleeping, I feel that life is not so difficult." After a high-frequency morning job, Haruki Murakami chooses to take a thirty-minute nap. He thinks that a nap can wake up the brain and then devote himself to a new round of work.

In Haruki Murakami's book "The Lion Who Loves Salads", he describes the idea of sleeping. He wrote in the book: "Sleepless nights are as rare for me as a lion that loves salads. "It's also a testament to his love of sleeping and quality sleep."

50 cups of coffee a day

Balzac

Balzac was a writing maniac, usually going to bed at 10 p.m. and getting up at 2 a.m. to work. Balzac had always believed that sleeping too much would bother a person's mind and dull his reaction.

Balzac drank many cups of coffee a day, it is said that he drank at least 50 cups of coffee a day, and some people counted that he drank 50,000 cups of coffee in his lifetime.

Lack of sleep combined with intense work left Balzac in an unstable state, especially his mental state, when he died at the age of 51.

Senior patients with insomnia

Tolstoy

It is said that Tolstoy often had insomnia when writing Anna Karenina, and his solution was to train his apparatus for half an hour before going to bed, and the dopamine secreted after exercise allowed him to maintain his creative energy.

Tolstoy's Last Diary is a diary written by the 82-year-old Tolstoy in his last year of life. In a total of 266 articles for 11 months, he recorded his daily routine of revising articles, walking, reading, watching movies, sleeping late, meeting friends, reading letters, and recording good and bad emotions.

In his January diary, Tolstoy wrote of a figurative description of life at night: "At night, there is nothing to do. Read boring books, watch boring movies, get bored, play cards. Sad, melancholy, but soft. I want to cry out loud and pray. Revise Dream again. I don't know if it's good to change it, but I feel that I have to change it. This is a necessary task. “

He has spent his whole life thinking a lot, and he once said that the meaning of life only exists in the present, and that it should be completely avoided to care about the future or consider it. If you feel that your life is not satisfactory, try to sleep.

Drinking alcohol will make you sleep conscious

Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Kit Fitzgerald is an American 20th-century writer and screenwriter. He joined the army in 1917 and spent his days in military training, and after retiring from the army, he insisted on writing amateurishly. After the publication of The Great Gatsby, he established his place in the history of modern American literature, becoming a spokesman for the "Jazz Age" of the 20s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation".

Fitzgerald, who had a military career, was accustomed to a regular schedule. After retiring from the army, he found that adhering to the rules of daily life became difficult and difficult. So he gets up at 11 a.m. every day, then works until five o'clock in the evening and continues to work until the early hours of the morning after dinner.

He and his wife also immersed themselves in the nightlife of Paris, and gin before bedtime was a must-have for him to stay asleep, which also led to Fitzgerald's death from a heart attack caused by alcoholism at the age of 44. The tombstone is engraved with the end of The Great Gatsby: "So we continued to push forward, sailing against the current, and were constantly pushed backwards until we returned to the old days." ”

Copy 10,000 words before going to bed to help you sleep

Zhang ailing

The peak period of Zhang Ailing's creation was mainly in the 1940s, when the literature of the Kuomintang, the literature of the Liberated Areas and the literature of the Occupied Areas coexisted. Writers began to recount the daily and secular life of ordinary people.

In her essay "The Quilt", there is a description of her state when she was insomnia. "I copied more than 10,000 words overnight, which is a rare thing for me, because I am too tired to go to bed and can't sleep. It was raining outside, it had been raining for many days, bit by bit, crooked, like my inexhaustible draft, written on the reverse side of the mimeograph of the speed message, the yellow mimeographed handwriting through the back of the paper, no matter what I wrote, happy, sad, there was always a line of yellow yin behind it; blue ink could not cover the gloomy and miserable news. ”

Zhang Ailing attaches great importance to inheriting the tradition of realistic novels, abandons the common karma and indoctrination propaganda in realistic novels on the confinement of novel forms, and imitates life with plain, natural and realistic brushstrokes. Copying fonts may be similar to the modern counting sheep method, and you can try this method if you have insomnia.

Pay attention to the sense of ceremony before going to bed

Stephen king

American suspense and thriller writer Stephen Edwin King, representative works include "The Shining", "The Shawshank Redemption" and so on. When he was fourteen years old, he found a chest in the attic of his home containing some horror novels from his father's collection. Since then, he has become fascinated with horror novels and aspires to become a horror writer.

Stephen King is said to wash his hands before going to bed, and he will have all the pillows facing the same direction; the opening of the pillowcase must be facing each side of the bed to ensure a comfortable sleep.

Stephen King concludes in his observations on the art of creative sleep and daydreaming: "For both writing and sleeping, we are all about keeping the body still while trying to free the brain from the tedious rational thinking of the day. ”

Spend a leisurely afternoon

Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang once said: "Lying in bed is a part of life, and life is seventy years old, lying in bed for thirty-five, it has to be talked about, and there is something to talk about", which shows its importance, and it has risen to the height of culture, thinking that it is "the art of life". “

The idea of this sleep is also reflected in his work The Art of Living. There is a chapter that describes the meaning of "sleeping in bed". It is strange that Lin Yutang thinks that people rarely know the importance of the art of lying in bed; it seems to me that the most important discovery in the world, whether in science or philosophy, is what scientists or philosophers get when they lie cross-legged in bed at two or five o'clock in the morning.

As he put it: "In the final analysis, life is nothing more than eating, sleeping, meeting friends, saying goodbye, reunions and farewell parties, tears and laughter, cutting hair once every two weeks, watering a pot of flowers, watching neighbors fall from the roof." ”

Apple falling asleep method

Dumas

The French 19th-century Romantic writer Alexandre Dumas, known as Alexandre Dumas. Dumas wrote 300 volumes of works, mainly novels and plays.

Dumas's novels are mostly set against the backdrop of real history, with twists and turns. Because of its clear structure and vivid and powerful language, it has been praised by posterity as the "king of popular novels".

It is said that Dumas's solution to insomnia is to eat an apple every day before going to bed, and the aroma of the apple can put him into a quiet sleep state, so he will also strictly control his work and rest, so he has cured his insomnia.

Many of the world's well-known artists and celebrities and politicians have their own sleep rules, such as the Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci who will sleep several times a day to enhance his creativity. So how do you go to sleep before going to bed?

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Written by: Aaliyah

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