Is it your fault that you can't sleep | reading at night?

Li Qinyu

It was late at night, and in the dark room, there was still light flickering, illuminating a tired and sleepy face. You say you haven't slept yet, but it's also hard to say why.

Staying up late is a lot of harm. For example, it causes fatigue and low mood. More seriously, there is also memory loss and inattention. Even more serious, it may also cause the body's immunity to decline. In this age of the internet, you wouldn't be unaware of this information.

These two days, the news that the post-90s girl stayed up late for ten years to grow age spots may make you frightened and hurried to look in the mirror. Unfortunately, you find that your appearance seems to have really declined because of staying up late. So you say to yourself, go to bed early tonight no matter what.

But at that point, you still lose sleep on time. When you toss and turn in bed, you start to think wildly, and as a result, sleep is getting farther and farther away from you.

The survey shows that more than 300 million people in China currently have sleep disorders, and nearly 1/3 of people with sleep disorders fall asleep after 1 a.m. This shows that you are not alone. In the stars of the urban forest, there are many people with you.

Is it all your fault for not falling asleep in time?

Sleep is not a problem for humans. In pre-modern society, without electric lights, except for a few sentimental writers, everyone would choose to sleep obediently. In the highly commercialized contemporary society, technology and order have invaded all corners of life. The pace of work and consumption is getting faster and faster, controlling the individual's subjective consciousness, and you have nowhere to escape.

The most terrible overtime is not to stipulate what time you work, but to tell you that your work is "flexible". It also means that you never really have time off work again, and your work and life are already intertwined and inseparable.

Schopenhauer said that human beings can grasp the "true core" of existence only in sleep. But in contemporary society, "waking up naturally" is an unattainable luxury. Because, this will break the normal order of fast-paced operation.

Let's say you have to get up early for work the next day or have an important meeting that you have to attend. You don't even dare mute your phone late at night, because that might make you miss an important message or an important call. Your sleep has been completely "transformed".

Breton regarded dreaming as a rebellion against real life, but the dream in sleep was only an "escape" of romanticism. You've been busy all day, and you've coaxed your baby to bed, and when you look up, it's already midnight. So, you decide to stay up late to brush up on dramas or play games. But in the end, such an "escape" will only make you more sleepy the next day.

It's time to re-examine your relationship to sleep. Although you can't rewrite the order of the world as a whole, you can still take control of your own life, for example, to go to bed on time. Bryant's favorite thing to say is "Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning", which shows that people who can grasp sleep can also control the initiative of life.

It's certainly not easy. You can't sleep because you're worried about what will happen to tomorrow's work, whether the tasks at hand will be completed, or whether you will be able to make your family's life better... But the ever-increasing weight in the middle of the night will not change reality, it will only compress your life.

You have to learn how to reconcile with life and learn how to deal with your desires and anxieties. Human life should not be wrapped up in a state of continuity without interruption. Your love, your concern, your thoughts are not obstacles that bind you into the night.

Sometimes, "wash and sleep" isn't a bad thing. Tomorrow, it's a new day.

Design Wish Bichen

Editor-in-Charge: Shen Bin

Proofreader: Yan Zhang