Many will not know, but sometimes what they are doing is procrastinating the time to go to sleep. That is, “it is the voluntary act to postpone or delay the time of bed without a practical reason that justifies it,” says Dr. Irene Rubio Bollinger, a specialist in clinical neurophysiology and coordinator of the Dream Unit of the Quirónsalud Sur Hospital. In addition, he adds, “in extreme cases the time to go to sleep is delayed even being tired.”
The recommendation of the experts, not going to sleep beyond 10:30 p.m. and follow a previous process before going to bed where there should be no screens, you have to lower the rhythm and prepare the sleeping body.
Why is it delayed going to bed?
There are days when there is no time for everything, 24 hours are not enough to do what you have to do in a mandatory and less if any leisure activity is included. This is one of the reasons why the day is lengthened more than is due.
According to Dr. Bollinger, “there are studies that warn that the fewer pleasant things a person can do during the day, the more likely he tries to recover that time at night.” This entails is that the people “who have the most risk of procrastinating sleep are those who do not have much control over their activity during the day and refuse soon to gain a certain sense of freedom during night hours.”
The dream is not negotiated
There are no doubt, unnegotiable. A person, to be well the next day, must sleep between seven and nine hours. But if he is awake more than he should be stealing hours at his rest, which will harm him the next day. According to Bollinger, “people who procrastine the time to go to sleep accuse, in general, greater tiredness and drowsiness during the day” and this translates “into less effectiveness and efficiency, also affecting emotions and humor.”
In addition, it does not usually give an isolated case one day and this makes procrastinating sleep becomes a vicious circle because “the worst the person feels during the day and the less surrenders, the more you will be desired at night to compensate for this bad time spent with time for herself and dedicate it to other things.”
The rest is a priority
If everything can be done, nothing happens. You have to stop and go to sleep when it touches, do not increase sleep debt. Do not forget that “rest is a priority that provides more energy and efficiency and allows you to be in a better humor during the day,” says the specialist in clinical neurophysiology. He adds that “maintaining a regular schedule when going to sleep and getting up is crucial to stay well and active during the day.”
How to end procrastinar?
It must be clear that the day does not give for everything and that during the time we have to combine labor and domestic obligations. In addition, “you have to reserve some time” for each of us and must preferably be during the afternoon but without invading sleep time.
An important advice, “put an alarm an hour before bedtime” that reminds us that you should start “the sleep routine, lowering the rhythm and dedicating time to relaxing and pleasant activities that help prepare the organism to sleep.”
It is also key to leave the screens aside and use “to use faint lights, do something relaxing such as a hot shower and practice deep breathing.”
