third of a person's life is spent on sleep.Many will say that it is useless, and give examples of famous people who slept very little.
light bulb inventor Thomas Edison wrote: "Most of us sleep in two times longer than the body requires.Excess sleep adversely affects our health, reducing productivity. "According to contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci slept 15-25 minutes, every four hours.Napoleon gave sleep 4 hours per day.
Without a doubt, these people are famous for their endowment and the capacity for work, but this neglect sleep they hardly managed to maintain health.
Minsk residents Jacob sleeps for 17 years, after suffering domestic drama.Jealous wife decided to poison her husband.After experiencing clinical death, the man began a new way to perceive others and himself.Proper body perceives as foreign.Over time, the insomnia is no longer considered the physical suffering, the body moved to the "canned" state.
As for psycho-physiological aspects, here the scientists of different specialties is quite unanimous.Insomnia - the result of a stressful state of mind and the human body, but accumulates with insomnia sleep deprivation increases stress, making it sustainable.The danger of chronic lack of sleep is that it gradually destroys our health.And the first step in the fight against chronic sleep deprivation - a mental exercise helps relieve stress, relaxation, diversion of mind from stressful situations.As a rule, psychological exercises do not require a lot of time and effort, and some of them can be carried out at all transparent to the outside eye.
At the conclusion of physicians, modern people experience a catastrophic shortage of time for a full sleep.With increasing pace of life, people are increasingly sacrificing time for rest for other more important things in their view.The time needed for a healthy person is sleep about nine hours.In nature, this figure needs to sleep can be called average.For example, hoofed sleep no more than three hours a day.Cows and elephants - four hours.Pigs, dogs and guinea pigs are sleeping around as a man: for eight or nine hours.Beavers and hedgehogs spend a dream ten to eleven hours.Chipmunks, squirrels and jerboa given to sleep for fifteen hours.All surpassed bats that "sleep is withdrawn at twenty - twenty-four hours a day!
Dream - a vital necessity.When laboratory rats deprived of sleep, they die within 10 days.However, among men are the experimenters that put their health at risk lack of sleep.So, in 1959, Peter Tripp spent without sleep as much as 8 days.Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days.It has been observed that "bessonnikov" disturbed mental activity, they could hardly concentrate on the simple things (to arrange the letters in alphabetical order).Hallucinations, sharply it is deteriorating eyesight.There were encircling the head pain.The culmination may be schizophrenia, covering the horror hypertrophied perception of reality, deteriorating physical activity.
a result of lack of sleep is a danger of making a mistake, stand other people's lives.For example, according to one version, the cause of the Chernobyl accident could be banal lack of sleep, over, work on two shifts in a row.
Sleep prolongs life, increases efficiency, cures for diseases.Do not skimp on sleep time, it will cost you dearly.Sleep is necessary for as long as required, and with pleasure!
