For quality sleep, pay attention to 2 hours before bed; To make the most of your time, pay importance to 15 minutes before bed.
Dr. Huazawa, author of 《Why the Elite Are Time Addicts》, recommends that office workers do something relaxing two hours before going to bed, and will have a good night's sleep.
During the day, our work and study are led by the sympathetic nerve, also known as the "daytime nerve"; At night, the parasympathetic nerve dominates our rest and sleep, and the switch between the two nerves requires a "cooling" time, that is, 2 hours before going to bed.
During this time we should do things to relax, such as listening to music, smelling aromatherapy, chatting, petting pets, doing light exercise, taking a bath, reading, etc.
These super relaxing things can allow our "daytime nerves" to smoothly "cool down" and silkily switch to the "night nerves" dominated sleep.
The last thing you should do two hours before bed is to eat!
The meaning of our sleep is to eliminate body and brain fatigue, if eating before bed will seriously affect our sleep quality, what is the meaning of sleep? !
Therefore, pay attention to not eating 2 hours before going to bed, and do more relaxing things 2 hours before going to bed, will greatly improve the quality of our sleep at night!
Have you heard of the "15 minutes before bedtime memory"?
This is another golden time of the day! We all know that 2-3 hours after waking up early is the prime time of the day for our brains.
Dr. Huazawa says: Memories 15 minutes before bed are the strongest memories of the day. This time is very efficient for memory learning, and can even match the effect of 1 hour during the day.
Because what we remember in the 15 minutes before bed is less disturbed by other information, it is more easily fixed in our brains.
In addition, in addition to studying, we can also write the interesting things that happened in the day into a diary or publish them on the Internet 15 minutes before going to bed. Enter interesting things into your brain at this time, and it is easy to form strong memories.
As a Japanese saying goes, "You become what you think before you go to bed." From a psychological point of view, this sentence is a psychological suggestion that things thought about before going to bed are easy to enter our subconscious mind.
If you do this on a regular basis, you're feeding your brain "happy memories," which are life hacks that increase your personal happiness.
