Every year at the end of October, the inhabitants of the entire country… no, they don’t go to the bathhouse, as in the popular Soviet film, but diligently try with sleepy eyes, into which it’s just right to insert matches from lack of sleep, to live on and work as actively as before. But it turns out that units – most of the first couple of weeks of November in the mornings resemble pale and sad zombies. Have you already guessed what we are talking about? Of course, about the transition to winter time, which the majority of the population strongly associates with torture.
Is it possible to change the usual situation and how to do it, namely, quickly and easily adapt to the transition to winter time – understood estet-portal.com.
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"Torture Chamber" winter time traditionally opens its doors on the last Sunday of October. This year, the clocks will need to be moved back one hour to 4:00 am on October 29.
Doctors have long been trumpeting about the dangers of changing the clock for the already long-suffering human body (sleep and general biorhythm disturbances, deterioration in general well-being, increased vulnerability to stress and depression). However, the inhuman ministers, with their statements about the economic feasibility of the transfer, have been adamant since the 90s and are clearly not going to change anything. So it’s more likely that you and I will have to learn together how to quickly adapt to an existing situation than cancer whistles on the mountain.
Thinking with horror about the near future, when in the evening you have to toss and turn without sleep, but in the morning it is excruciatingly painful to part with the pillow without sleeping that very right hour? Let's turn to the advice of Western experts, who have compiled a whole set of rules for those who are not going to give up without a fight, but prefer to act.
Learning how to adapt to turning back the clock
- First, we try to cheer ourselves up with the right morale, which, as you know – already half done.
You obviously stay up late on weekends, don't you? So the body should have already prepared a little for a later falling asleep.
- Again about the weekends: just on them (without sacrificing work productivity, which is so important on weekdays), it is more convenient to train late to bed and get up a little earlier.
If you start doing this a week before the clock change, you'll be well prepared. Then all that remains is to condescendingly look at the sleepy flies surrounding you in transport on the way to work.
- Continuing the theme: prepare not for weekends, otherwise the body will relax again in a few weekdays.
So keep going to bed later and wake up earlier all week until the clock changes. No, this does not mean that in one fell swoop you need to start getting up an hour earlier – how else would this stress be different from the stern need to get up early on October 29th?
Implies gradual habituation. You can start from 15 minutes: go to bed 15 minutes later in the evening and 15 minutes earlier to set an alarm for the morning (only, mind you, get up right away, and don’t rearrange the alarm clock several times ahead to soak up the habit out of habit!).
Every couple of days you need to add another 15 minutes – and by the end of the week, you will be in sync with others for just an hour, only (unlike people who are not so far-sighted) you will not notice the discomfort of switching to a new mode.
- In addition to the sleep-wake mode, you need to take care of the diet.
Because the stomach gets used to getting food at the same time all the time, the clock change can be uncomfortable for the digestive system as well. The time for breakfast and dinner, begin to smoothly shift – according to the same system described above as sleep.
- Experiment with the intensity of lighting in the bedroom.
Immediately after waking up, throw open the curtains or open the blinds so that the bright sunlight will cheer you up faster and help you meet the new day more positively. In the evening, on the contrary, try to darken the room in order to quickly tune in to sleep. Also, if the lighting system permits, adjust the brightness of the artificial light in the late afternoon, dimming it to a minimum by the later hour.
- Begin your bedtime preparations at least one hour before going to bed and falling asleep (according to the new schedule, of course).
This shouldn't be difficult, since according to the old regime, you should have already fallen asleep at this time. Bedtime preparations include timeless classics: a warm short bath, reading a paper book with some quiet plot, avoiding gadgets and TV.
- When preparing the body for the clock change, it is best to temporarily give up caffeine and alcohol.
Both of them artificially disrupt sleep patterns, so it will be much easier to get into a new schedule without them.
- If you – lover of a siesta, then you will also have to take a nap in the afternoon in a new way.
Limit your nap time to half an hour and try to go to midday "reset" a little later than usual.
- It is both more difficult and easier for children to adapt to the transition to winter time.
More difficult mentally and easier physically – that's what it means.
To prevent your offspring from whimpering after the clock change, do the preliminary preparations described in our tips with the whole family.
Of course, there is life after the transition to winter time, but it will be pleasant or not very – depends only on you, or rather, on your willingness to make a little effort to get used to the new rhythm in advance. We hope that the advice of estet-portal.com will help readers with this!
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