Why is it difficult for some people to wake up in the morning?
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Scientists have finally answered a question that many people are worried about: why is it so difficult to wake up the morning? It turns out that the reason for this is the incorrectly working biological clock of a person. Wrong biological clock experts call the internal clock of a person who work out of sync with a twenty-four hour rhythm.
Many adults with a fixed work schedule on weekends like to sleep longer, but on weekdays without problems wake up with an alarm clock, and for some, the morning awakening on a day off and a worker becomes torture. Such people are hard not only to wake up in the morning and enter the working rhythm, but also to fall asleep in the evening, because of which everyday life literally collapses. Any attempts to do something usually are unsuccessful: changing pillows or mattresses, sleeping pills, sedatives, or even alcohol at night - are all useless. In the morning, of course, it is difficult to wake up, since the total sleep time is only a few hours.
Scientists from the Australian University for several months were engaged in a detailed study of the syndrome of delayed onset of the phases of sleep. Statistics show that this syndrome is characteristic mainly for adolescents and can be associated with age-related hormonal changes in the body. More than 15% of young people between the ages of 15 and 18 suffer from delayed sleep phase syndrome, and there is no guarantee that the disease will be eliminated with age. The most common version, with which experts try to explain the causes of sleep phase delays, looks like this: the cause of disturbing a healthy dream is the failure of the rhythm of internal biological clocks that do not work synchronously with the daily rhythm.
Most people live synchronously with the twenty-four-hour rhythm that is natural and which affects cycles of wakefulness and sleep, hormone production, body temperature and the body's immune system. Researchers noted that people who have sleep phase delay syndrome require a little more time to complete each cycle, which means that a person simply "does not fit" in 24 hours. Sleep in the human body in this case occurs 2-3 hours later than the rest of the people. Most often, such a delay leads to the fact that the real sleep regime differs significantly from the desired one or from what is required by the society that offers study or work.
To date, Australian researchers are working on the possible elimination of the problem associated with sleep disorders. Doctors say that after a cause has been established, in connection with which people can not wake up or fall asleep in the proper time, it will be easier to choose the right therapy. Among the possible techniques that will help get rid of the sleep phase delay syndrome, while only chronotherapy is given (a technique that involves daily shifting of the sleep phase for several hours and subsequent "freezing" of the sleep schedule) and daylight or bright light therapy (in this case, experts suggest avoiding bright light in the evening and at night).