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| Sleep Myths and Truth |
 Myth 6: Sleepiness during a day means that person does’t get the sufficient sleep time.
Truth: Such sleepiness means that a person feels very tired in the day time and wants to sleep almost all the time. This happens also even if an individual slept for 8-9 hours and may be the symptom of more serious health disorders, including paroxismal sleep or sleep apnea. A person with such symptom has to visit a doctor.
Myth 7: Health disorders (diabetes, excessive weight, anxiety and high blood pressure) have nothing to do with sleep.
Truth: There is a connection between the amount and quality of sleep a person gets and different health disorders. So, the lack of sleep leads to increase of special hormone generation, which is connected to obesity. Large amount of this hormone means excessive weight. It’s scientifically proved that the level of blood pressure decreases during sleep. That’s why if person doesn’t get enough sleep, the blood pressure won’t be normalized. Cardiovascular diseases occur oftener in people, who don’t get enough sleep. Also the insufficient amount of sleep increases the possibility of diabetes.
Myth 8: Old people need less time for sleep.
Truth: The amount of necessary sleep for old people is the same as for average middle-aged people. The sleep of old people is more anxious and they wake up oftener than younger people. The schedule of sleep for older people differs: they sleep less at night and spend a couple of hours for a day sleep.
Myth 9: If a person wakes up in the night, the best way to go back to sleep for him/her is to count something in the mind.
Truth: The above situation is one of insomnia symptoms. The best way to get back to sleep in the night is to imagine something that associates with relaxation. This will help more than counting.
If a person can’t fall asleep for more than 20 minutes, he/she should try to change the environment, go to another room and read a book or listen to music for example. One shouldn’t track the time on the clock while trying to fall asleep.
Myth 10: Human brain doesn’t function during sleep.
Truth: Although many zones of the brain aren’t active during sleep, it still controls some important functions of the organism.
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