Why do you like to stay up late?
We went from closing our eyes at night and opening our eyes during the day to opening them all the time. A pair of dark circles under our eyes is even more typical than a panda’s! Unstable sleep is common for young people, but sooner or later you have to pay back when you go out to hang out. Do you think staying up late is just a matter of taking a few days off to make up for it? People who often stay up late will suffer from anorexia, poor skin, bad temper, and physical weakness. People who stay up late for a day or two seem to feel nothing. But as time passes and it becomes a habit, it becomes out of control.
The first thing to suffer is the eyes. We blink several times a day, and your brain has to work overtime when it should be resting to prevent it from taking a vacation. Then over time it will not be able to withstand the pressure, and those who should go on strike will go on strike. After staying up late for just a few nights, dark circles begin to spread. Over time, bags under the eyes are formed, and melanin is deposited. This will make the eyes look dull and lifeless. So no matter how much you spend on expensive eye creams and essences, they may not always give you a pair of bright eyes…
Then slowly feed it back to your skin. Staying up late will make your skin’s metabolism deteriorate, lose moisture, and become dry and dark yellow. A healthy skin with very good permeability will have hydrated skin, while a bad skin will produce oil, which can be embarrassing even with makeup. When your skin is dry, the stratum corneum will be unhealthy, your supple skin will say goodbye, and it will turn darker!
You can live a healthy life because hundreds of millions of cells are protecting you. Staying up late will only make your face look haggard and saggy. It also reduces your body’s immunity, and in severe cases, you may die suddenly. Isn’t it terrible! If you stay up late all day and sleep for three or four days, you can’t make up for your fault. Will you still let your late night stay unscrupulous?
So now, let’s analyze from a psychological perspective why everyone likes to stay up late these days.
1.Procrastination
Staying up late can actually be said to be a form of procrastination.
Procrastination can be experienced by most people, and the degree is different. Procrastinating to go to bed actually reflects the emotions behind it. Maybe it is dissatisfaction with the current situation. Maybe the thought of going to bed makes you think that today is going to end and a new day will start tomorrow. There are so many things during the day, so This state makes you lack the courage to face it and makes you want to avoid it; maybe you are thinking about going to bed, and you have to prepare a series of rituals: washing your face, brushing your teeth, putting things away, etc. Studies have shown that these preparation behaviors that hate sleeping are also Reasons for delaying going to bed.
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2. There is no reasonable planning of time and making up for it at night
There are also some people who lack the ability to manage time and plan things, and are not so efficient at doing things. They make up for it at night and use the night time to complete tasks that were not completed during the day, which may even create the illusion that they are working hard. .
3. Compensation psychology, it is rare to have time for yourself
During the day, many things occupy our time: work, reading, socializing, etc. During the day, we always feel that there is no time to rest, relax and be ourselves. At night, we will want to seize this rare time and have free control over it. The time feels so good. As a result, many people begin to compensate and stay up too late. Compensation at night is to make up for the time you don’t have during the day.
4. I like to stay up late and think staying up late can prolong my life.
There are many people here who think sleep is a waste of time. They like to take the initiative to stay up late, thinking that this way they will have much more time than others, and this is also a way to extend their lives.
5. Staying up late has become a habit
There are often people who always swear that they must go to bed before XX o’clock tomorrow night. As a result, at night, their brains are still so active. At this time, they still choose to take out their mobile phones to browse Weibo, read WeChat, and browse various community forums. Unconsciously, time has passed and they still stay up late. In fact, it is unrealistic to want to change staying up late all at once, because staying up late has become a habit, and the biological clocks of the brain and body continue as usual. At this time, you can slowly and step by step change to fall asleep a few minutes or ten minutes earlier. .
6. Physiological factors cause staying up late
Some people may stay up late due to insomnia and poor sleep quality; there is also a sleep disorder: delayed sleep phase syndrome (a sleep problem related to the biological clock, a circadian biorhythm sleep disorder), which Usually occurs in teenagers. Teenagers with this sleep disorder will go to bed later than other people of the same age and fall asleep later.
7. Insufficient self-control
Staying up late can also be said to be a sign of lack of self-control. At night, maybe we want to relax, so we turn on the computer to catch up on TV dramas, play games, or turn on the phone to check Weibo. Time always feels like it passes very quickly when playing with these things, occupying every fragment of our time. Give us pleasure and make us feel satisfied. The brain cannot control this feeling, especially at night. Our brains are more tired than during the day, so our self-control will be worse than during the day. Therefore, unknowingly, we consume all kinds of modern tools. Night time.
Conclusion
If you want to go to bed early at night, you can: avoid bringing mobile phones and other tools to bed, do not do strenuous exercise one hour before going to bed: run as early as possible, soak your feet before going to bed to clear the meridians, drink some milk before going to bed, and ensure that the temperature of the bedroom is suitable , these can help everyone fall asleep earlier.
Regarding the causes and harms of ‘staying up late with revenge’ and how to adjust your mentality and habits, you can read this article.
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