Contents:
- Medical Video: 9 Secrets to ACTUALLY Waking Up Early | morning person 101
- Apparently, the body has its own alarm
- Why do I like to wake up at midnight?
Medical Video: 9 Secrets to ACTUALLY Waking Up Early | morning person 101
Have you ever been curious, or maybe even feeling annoyed absurdly, why can you wake up right at the same time as yesterday, even though you deliberately did not set the alarm - and today is your holiday? Buyar had all plans to get up late and be tired. What is there, you actually feel refreshed, even though it's still at 5 in the morning. Science can explain it for you.
Apparently, the body has its own alarm
Our daily life is governed by internal body clocks called circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms work to regulate when you go and wake up following all changes in habits, physical, mental, behavioral, even to the conditions of your environment in a 24-hour cycle. Circadian rhythms can also help produce hormones, body temperature, and various other bodily functions.
Sleep is a way for jam circadian body to reset itself automatically every day to be able to operate in a 24 hour cycle. The dim atmosphere and cold weather at night will trigger the brain to release the hormone melatonin and adenosine which makes you feel sleepy and relaxed, a sign of your time to sleep. The more nights the more sleepy trigger hormones are released.
Throughout the night when you fall asleep these two hormones will continue to be released, but the production will begin to be braked in the early morning and slowly replaced with the hormones adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline and cortisol are stress hormones that help you focus and be alert when you wake up in the morning.
Simply put, the reason why you can wake up always at the same time is because circadian rhythm works to respond to changes in bright and dark light. As soon as your body is exposed to light in the morning (whether it's natural sunlight coming out from behind curtains, room lights, or even a cellphone screen that is lit because of email notifications), your body's biological clock will stop the production of drowsy hormone makers and replace it with stress hormones to prepare you up early. The sleepy hormone adenosine and melatonin usually stop being produced around 6-8 in the morning.
Why do I like to wake up at midnight?
Sometimes, you might find yourself waking up in the middle of the night for no reason. No, this is not because there are a pair of invisible eyes watching you in a corner of the room like in movies. The phenomenon of waking up at midnight is usually called "midnight insomnia".
The biological clock of the body, as described above, regulates sleep patterns - from chicken sleep to deep sleep, or what is called the REM sleep stage. The stages of non-REM and REM sleep take place every 90-100 minutes every night. You are more likely to wake up in the middle of the night during a non-REM sleep. Also, as time passes by dawn, "we are moving towards a milder stage of sleep, so we are more likely to wake up," said Ames Findley, Ph.D., CBSM, clinical director of The Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the University of Pennsylvania, released from the Huffington Post.
The habit of waking up at midnight may also be affected by changes in sleep patterns. Everyone has a different body biological clock (circadian rhythm), but generally 24 hours and 15 minutes. Circadian rhythms from people who like to sleep late will be longer, while the rhythm of people who are diligent in getting up early will be shorter than 24 hours.
Changes in sleep patterns ruffle the body's biological clock system, which in turn has a detrimental effect on health. This is because the body's biological clocks not only control our awareness and alertness but also regulate the "working hours" of every organ in the body. In other words, stress factors that affect the function of the body's biological clock, such as work deadlines, relationships with lovers, or college assignments that don't finish make you always go to sleep with all the anxiety that often leads to problems sleeping hard. Wake up at midnight can also be caused by various other things, such as spicy eating or drinking coffee in the afternoon or even the night before going to bed.
