The reason why you can’t fall asleep at night, especially if you’re one of those who can’t stop looking at the clock.
There are many people who suffer from insomnia, in fact a large part of the population suffers from it, and it is because they are exposed to different pressures and health problems accumulated over the years.
And in a new study they have put the main focus on an action that many people do and that deprives them of being able to fall asleep quickly, and it is basically looking insistently at the clock.
Researchers say that keeping track of time, that is, looking at the clock more than usual, can increase frustration and lead to increased use of sleeping pills for sleep.
“People are concerned sleep enough, then they begin to estimate how long it will take them to go back to sleep and when to get up,” says clinical psychologist Spencer Dawson of Indiana University Bloomington.
“That is not the type of activity that is helpful in facilitating the ability to fall asleep; the more stressed you are, the more difficult it will be to fall asleep, ”he adds.
This research has been done to raise awareness of the dangers of using sleeping medications.
To reach their conclusion, researchers used specific sleep data from 4,886 patients who completed a questionnaire at a medical center in Arizona.
Specifically, the severity of his insomniatime spent monitoring their behavior while they were trying to sleep, and medication use.
Then they used a mediation analysis, statistically comparing different variables, and putting on the table that insomnia is the cause, the use of medication the result, and the observation of the clock, the suspected mediator of all the variables. So in the results they found a strong connection between the three factors.
“We found that time-monitoring behavior has an effect primarily on sleep medication use because it exacerbates symptoms of insomnia,” Dawson says.
This research has been carried out to try to make the population aware of the dangers of using medicines to sleep, trying to get users to choose to eliminate other habits such as watching the clock.
In this way, if you want to fall asleep quickly, the best thing you can do is lose track of time, and not look at your watch.
