Sleep Health Co., Ltd.

Many people don't know that each of us has a wholly-owned "Sleep Health Co., Ltd.". All your problems of being unable to sleep, sleeping falsely and waking up tired are not "accidental failures" caused by external factors, but problems in the operating system of this internal company-this is also the core logic that 90% of sleep problems can be solved without sleeping pills.

To put it bluntly, there are not so many fancy departments in this company, and the core is three posts: the pineal gland is a producer, secreting sleep-related hormones such as melatonin and serotonin according to the rhythm of light; When the autonomic nervous system is scheduled, the excitability of the sympathetic nerve will be suppressed and the parasympathetic nerve will be pulled up; Your daily behavior is CEO, setting rules and sending signals to the whole company. Have you ever had this experience? I stayed up until three o'clock on Friday, woke up at 12 noon on Saturday, and kept my eyes open for the next three days until 12 o'clock, scolding myself over and over again for "why can't I sleep again"-don't scold me, it's just that you, the CEO, changed your attendance and messed up the rhythm of the producers. People used to go to work according to the sun, but you suddenly changed it to the American time zone, so people naturally lost their temper.

As to how this company should operate, the academic circles and the people actually have their own opinions, and no one can convince anyone. The most classic school of sleep hygiene has been popular for almost 30 years. The core requirement is that you should set up a good office environment for the company: adjust the temperature of the bedroom to 18-22 degrees, and don't leave any light source. The bed can only be used for sleeping and intimate contact, and it is not allowed to brush short videos on the bed to watch work news. It is equivalent to setting a fixed commute time for the company and decorating a clean workshop, which is suitable for those who have a regular life and can strictly enforce the rules.

However, in recent years, people in the neurology school don't agree with this, saying that the more you force yourself to sleep, the more excited the cerebral cortex is, which is equivalent to the CEO standing at the door of the production workshop staring at the employees, and the employees must be nervous to fish, but they will work slowly. Their plan is more casual: if you can't sleep for 15 minutes, get out of bed immediately, turn on a dim light in the living room and read a book that doesn't cost your mind, and then go back when you are sleepy. Don't take "going to sleep" as a task, which is suitable for the high-pressure people who are pushing themselves more and more anxious. By this method, the big factory I contacted before reduced the sleep time from 2 hours to 20 minutes in three weeks. There is also the meridian stream school of Chinese medicine, which is even more interesting. It is said that the operation of this company has to follow the human qi and blood. From 11: 00 to 3: 00 in the morning, it is the time to detoxify the liver and gallbladder. If you can't sleep well, you have to soak your feet, press acupoints and adjust your diet. There are several girls around me who are deficient in qi and blood. Soaking their feet for 10 minutes before going to bed is really more effective than eating melatonin.

I have compiled the comparison table of frequently asked questions corresponding to these three schemes, and you can choose according to your own situation:

Seriously, many people have a big misunderstanding about this company: they always think that KPI means "sleeping for 8 hours", but it is not. I have seen the research conducted by the University of California, San Francisco in 2009, and 1%-3% of people are born with DEC2 gene mutation, that is, people who are short sleepers. Sleeping for 4-6 hours every day is completely enough, and other people's companies have high operating efficiency. If you have to give people 8 hours of KPI, it will cause problems in the company's operation. I have an investment friend who is like this. He sleeps for 5 hours every day, and he is in poor spirits during the day. Before, I always heard people say that if he didn't sleep for 8 hours, he would die suddenly. He forced himself to lie down for 8 hours, but he felt uncomfortable all over. Later, he left it alone, but there was no problem.

When I was in a hurry for the project two years ago, I also shut down this company. I slept at 2 am and started at 7 am for a week. Later, the project ended, but I couldn't sleep at some point. At that time, I didn't eat melatonin, so I walked around the park for 20 minutes every day after work and basked in the sunset in the evening. In fact, I sent a signal to the pineal gland and told it that "it is evening now, and it will be dark in a few hours."

In fact, after all, you are the only boss of this sleep health company. Don't always listen to the words "you must sleep at 11 o'clock" and "you are useless if you don't sleep for 8 hours" on the Internet. Pay more attention to your body signals. You will wake up in good spirits the next day, sleep for 6 hours, and you will be groggy the next day. Even if you sleep for 10 hours, it will be a problem in the company's operation. Don't blindly fill the company with stimulants such as melatonin and sleeping pills. Follow its rhythm and be stronger than anything else.