"Owl" woes
According to various data, real "owls" or people of the evening type are 30-40% of the world population. A gene common for such people, determining the duration of the sleep phase, was withdrawn by Japanese researchers in 2001. On the one hand, "owls" or people of the evening type can only be envied. Judge for yourself: they adapt very well to work at night, compared to other people better control their rhythm of sleep and wakefulness. In people of the night type, the mechanisms that are responsible for increasing pressure work slowly.
Therefore, emotional stress, mental stress, a large influx of information that is responsible for arterial hypertension, on "owls" is reflected less than in other "birds." Do not tend to "owls" fix on the setbacks and troubles, possible difficulties, conflicts and emotional problems. Perhaps, because surprisingly sensitive to the nature and characteristics of people around. And, as scientists have become convinced, these features are manifested in "owls" even at the tenderest school age! In short, people of the evening type would be ideal candidates for the role of long-livers in the modern world, if not for one "but" - the constant suffering from chronic lack of sleep. After all, because of the inability to fall asleep with the "chickens," the duration of sleep in them is reduced sometimes to four hours a day! Because the need to go to work on time (and still look good) in time for most of them - alas! - nobody canceled it.
How to deal with this? Studies have shown that "owls" or people of the evening type feel best when working on a second shift or in conditions when they can choose their own time for work and rest. Accordingly, if the management of your company is aimed at the result, rather than letter-and-letter compliance with the rules of imprisonment at work from nine to six hours, you can try to discuss with him the possibility of working on a biased schedule. Especially if you have already proved yourself with the best hand! Trying is not torture, but if it does, then you and the firm will win. If the question "peace" was not solved, and being an "owl", you still have to climb the "lark" regime, try to facilitate the existence with the help of the following tricks.
Experimentally establish the earliest time when you are basically able to fall asleep. Try to fit things up so that day after day you find yourself in bed no later than this hour. Even in the case when you feel still quite cheerful! Gradually shifting the time of rebound by midnight, you can ensure yourself at least the required minimum of sleep. An hour before going to bed, treat yourself to a light supper: it is as impossible to sleep on an empty stomach as with a full stomach. Half an hour before bedtime, you can resort to such safe "sleeping pills" as honey, bananas or dark grapes. Relaxing bath with mint, melissa, hops, valerian too does not hurt! Morning rise for "owls" should be organized "with a stitching". Get an alarm 15 minutes early to be able to soak in bed. It is useful to turn on the TV on something interesting and exciting. Such an "awakening" will become less painful. Recommended "owls" hot (35-40gradusov) morning shower. At work, try to organize things so that up to 12 you can solve only routine tasks. And the most hard work is best left until 16-18 pm. Do not also lash yourself with an unthinkable amount of coffee: the clarity and speed of thought still can not wait, and you will get a breakdown.