It was late at night before Yaroslav returned home.
"Where are you hanging out again?" The wife scolded loudly and turned on the lights, "In order to wait for you to come back, I read the newspaper in bed and saw that at 3 o'clock in the evening." ”
"I... Me too, came back afraid you said I, I kept waiting for you to turn off the lights, so waited on the street until 3 o'clock. ”
Before going to bed, we tend to instinctively turn off the lights first, but some people do not have this instinct, they either omit this step of the procedure, or deliberately leave the lights as a companion. For example, some babies cry out of fear at night, and they sleep sweetly only when the lights are turned on.
We call this habit of turning on the lights at night to sleep, and not turning off the lights in the sleep state, called "turning on the lights and sleeping habits". The on-lamp sleep habit is a bad sleeping habit, which mostly occurs in babies, but many adults have the same problem. They often keep the room brightly lit at night before going to sleep peacefully, during which time they get up and return to bedtime.
In fact, from a psychological point of view, this is the fear of darkness in this group of people. Most of their dependence on light begins in infancy. Because in childhood, children often listen to a lot of stories about ghosts and gods at night, and the place and time of such stories are indispensable to our daily lives - bedroom, before going to bed, so they often associate darkness with fear and ghosts, causing them to dare not turn off the lights and sleep. This is one of the main reasons for sleeping with the lights on. Another reason is that you have encountered some terrible things in a dark situation, or have been disturbed by nightmares, creating a psychological shadow of darkness.
Therefore, such patients themselves do not have any special complex for darkness, but are related to some hidden meaning of contact in dark situations, which is the root cause of dependence on light.
So, how to correct this psychological problem?
From a psychological point of view, the following ways can be used to solve the problem:
1． Cognitive comprehension therapy can be used
First of all, we must psychologically believe that ghosts do not exist, eliminate fear from cognition and subconscious, and a staunch atheist, rationally realize that some legends and stories are nothing more than jokes that people use to spread false rumors, and they have no basis.
2． Think about things more in the dark of night
In order to clear up some of the more terrifying details such as the eerie sounds or reflections that scare us, we can think of some pleasant experiences, or we can think of endless reverie, or think about some deep questions, so that we can successfully divert our attention, and it is easy to fall asleep at the end of thinking. Repeating this habit many times will improve.
3． Systemic desensitization therapy can be used
According to their fear of the dark, establish a horror level table, and then in the order from light to heavy, in turn, systematic desensitization training, continuous reinforcement, such as you can first practice adaptation to chat with friends after turning off the lights, then sit quietly with friends after turning off the lights, and then turn off the lights together to sleep. After that, you can also try to turn off the lights and listen to music alone, and sit quietly alone... This is done step by step until you can stand alone in the night.
Why lose the world you deserve for something that doesn't exist? In fact, it was your own uneasy heart that directed this thriller from beginning to end. The night is a world, the world is not only fear and fear, but also quiet, free, vast; this world is also beautiful, equally worthy of people's memories.