Sleeping Diseases

Holla! Back to blogging, I should write something good. Let me start it with Sleeping Diseases.

Creepy one, huh. Noooooo I don't mean to frighten you. Here are some stuffs you should know about sleeping.

Of course people needs to get sleep. Normally, we take 2/3 of our 24 hours per day to sleep, which scientists called a proper sleep. While sleeping, our body get rest a little while, after being used whole day. Everyone got different habits while sleeping. Some needs a prominent yet cozy place to sleep such as king size mattress, goose feather stuffed pillows, anything nice to provide a pleasant sleep. For the unfortunates, sleeping could be a luxury which is good enough to afford. Those nice sleeping materials don't really matter though.

It's so funny, couple weeks ago I read on Twitter, there was a debate, arguing about Insomnia. As you may know in brief, insomnia is a state when you find difficulties just to fall asleep or even stay asleep. What is interesting about that is several people; whom I really know always stay up late and still tweeting, objected the term of "insomnia" being used by everyone who stay up late, or let's say, sleep late. Those true insomniacs, if I might call them that way, found it unpleasant to share their insomnia disorder as a trend. That people who stay up late and still tweeting is insomniac. Insomniac is the new trend because like the city that never sleeps, Jakarta, so does the people who never sleeps, they're as hyped as this capital city.

I have to agree those insomniacs, because as you may see from any explanations about insomnia, it is such a disorder which can refer to a mental illness. If you consider it once, are you happy being called as a mental disorder or retard? No way. But hey, actually insomnia may refer to that state if it happens for such a long time. And yes, staying up till midnight then sleep late, which continued by wake up late another day is not an insomnia! You're just a fool who don't maintain a well time planning. If you're truly an insomniac, you wouldn't be happy about that. You'd feel hopelessly want to fall asleep even just for an hour. Pathetic!

I once had this insomnia disorder. You know what, the worst was that I couldn't fall asleep for almost six days! I used Xanax on the sixth, then luckily I fell asleep the next day for 8 hours. Crazy dude, 500 mg of Xanax can make you sleep for 18-24 hours and I just got its 1/3. But actually those tranquilizers are not really helping because it basically increases your heartbeat and you become alert. You're not going to find a peaceful state. Blame my heartbroken then. Now I'm better that I am no longer an insomniac but still hardly to get sleep early, before 11 pm as suggested.

Other disease that you should know is sleep apnea, or popular as snoring. Hahahahaha. This one, I don't really have a better explanation cause I've never been into this. Even my dad's rarely snoring, can count it in the last 10 years. Let's go to sleep paralysis. This one is true creepy. Several myths around the world related this sleep paralysis to supernatural power. Shortly, it is a state when you're entering your REM (rapid eye movement) and having dream, but your brain and neurons are not synchronized. On your REM, your brain alerts body to make movements but your neurons are in composed so they're not ready yet to follow the instructions from the brain. You may feel like something's leaning on you. Folklores around the world associated this sleep paralysis with supernatural powers, alien abduction, and many more. It's because people who experience this also having a nightmare. Some scientists believe that this nightmare caused from unfinished dream happened while a sleep paralysis person was being forced to wake up and shocked.

There are more about sleeping diseases like sleepwalking, sleep deprivation, and etc. Not as creepy as those mentions before but still can cause some mental illness. All I can say is lucky to you who can afford sucha proper sleep, 7-8 hours per day, no late than 11 pm. Because enough sleep is one of the success key to have a healthy body. And for those who suffered any sleeping diseases, that has been occurred for a long time, maybe you should meet a psychiatric. I tell you, you need help.

PS.

I can only fall asleep in a very dark room. But yet, while having insomnia, a (super) dark room couldn't help me that much. That's why I realized I had this illness.