夜不能寐是为何？

20160518ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题： 夜深了，你为何还不睡？ Nick: A lot of research and science has been done on sleep. I turns out that a lot of it turn out to be things about theory, things that we think, things that seem logical. Some of this new research seems to suggests that might not be the case. The data that has been used in this new study comes from an app that can be used to help users overcome jetlag. People who travel a lot for their job or for whatever reason, find themselves traveling between different time zones, and their internal body clock becomes messed up, because when you’re traveling between different countries the times are obviously different. So they have developed this app that people can download where you would put in the time zone that you usually live in the time that you would normally go to bed; your normal sleeping pattern. [You would then enter] the time zone that you would travel to and for how long. The app would then come up with a time zone, a recommended sleeping schedule, alter your sleeping pattern or have a nap or go to bed earlier or later. It calculates it for you to minimize the disruption on your sleeping cycle. An option was included to share the data that they put in, with scientists who are working on sleep. 8 percent were happy to share the information. Which is a disappointingly small number for the scientists I imagine but there was enough of a number for the scientists to do some research. These 8 percent were the sample and the study which was done at the University of Michigan came up with some predictions. They found that from the time the sun rises and sets has less effect on people’s sleeping pattern that we previously thought. Yoyo: Also I think the point is that people always value their inner body clock. If they usually wake up early then they would wake up. If they don’t feel tired in the evening then they will delay their bedtime. With the development of modern technologies and sometimes with all these gadgets they have a light and peoples’ bodies would react to the light which might mistake it for sunlight and [your body] might think it is day time and your body will try and stay awake. Nick: I think you’ve made a separate but very important point, which is that technology is influencing our sleep and keeping us up later. There are so many things that you could do now that you have technology and all of these gadgets. Hundreds of years ago, there was nothing that you could do because it was just dark and you couldn’t see anything.