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Effects of eating in the midnight, Gadget Intervention while sleeping, Good Night's sleep, How to sleep well, Mid Night snack, Sleeping, Sleeping disorder
Dear friends this is off and out of my blog’s content. But thought of sharing this awareness of sleeping in night. How many of us sleep well during the night? Do we sleep from 10 PM to morning 6? Do we get at least 6 hours of sleep? If you can do so, you are way good and on right track.
Definitely I am not the one who sleeps well. I struggle a lot to sleep. I have to roll on for hours together to get sleep. I keep myself preoccupied with so many thoughts. Its a battle between my thoughts and sleep.
Recently I watched a talk show in a Tamil channel about why younger generation doesn’t sleep on time?
Many younger generation people argued that they got sleep for 6 hours but they slept from mid night 2 to next day 8. They were quite comfortable with that sleeping time. Some said we can’t sleep at least until 3 in the mid night. Some said they can happily watch TV programs in the night. They can play games and chat with friends. Everything was in and around gadgets.Yes I am one of them.
Just because I can’t sleep, I will watch movies, TV programs in the night. When I am on bed I get some thought and check my mobile. Check for emails. As I am awake I get hungry and snack something in the midnight. This is something worse I know it myself but I can’t help it. I am not getting sleep 😦 What ever we eat in the midnight doesn’t get digested properly and sugar settles in the liver which is dangerous. This is one reason why we put on weight.
Some experts, doctors have come to the show and they pointed few information which gave me a big time shock.
- The light that we get from gadget in the darkness very badly affect our retina in the eyes. Nerves in the eyes are affected.
- Eating in the midnight increases your weight.
- Not sleeping on time from 10 PM to 6 AM affects hormones. There are certain hormones which secrets only in the midnight when we sleep. If we don’t sleep at that time the hormone secretion level dips downs to a very low range. This can cause digestive problems in the younger age. Later change to fatal around 40 to 50 years of our age.
- The one which gave me a jerk is this one, If we don’t sleep well as ladies in the midnight we have a great chance of getting breast cancer. Some ladies who are prone genetically for breast cancer are asked to wear black glasses when they sleep to avoid the chances of breast cancer in them.
- The complete world operates with Sun. We need to sleep and work according to the Sun’s rules. When it sets we need to sleep and when it rises we need to wake up. Simple example are flowers, they bloom when sun rises and goes down when Sun sets.
These are the fact that we need to accept and understand. I have made a resolution myself that I will not touch any gadget once I go to bed. Try to sleep by 10 PM. I am following it for the past one week, first 2 days was difficult but slowly I can realize Yes I can sleep by 10. It’s just my mind set. Even if some thought ponders, just have to tell myself that I need to sleep. All my worries can wait.
A good night’s sleep is definitely needed for every one, those who have little kids it is difficult. Otherwise lets change our attitude towards sleep 🙂
Malar's Kitchen 
Very useful Information!! Myself also a night person😯😔!! Very hard to sleep before 1 !!!
Me too definitely going to overcome this bad routine..feeling Determined😴😐
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Yes Nimmi, we need to overcome this habit. Most of us don’t know the adverse effect, that is why we do it 😛 I am glad I could get this thought provoking message to my friends 🙂
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Are you talking about Neeya Naana Malar? Even I saw that. Yes as you told good night sleep is very essential but now a days even if I try with LO I can’t even imagine having sound sleep
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Yes Vidya , Neeya Naana show. I know its extremely difficult with LO , but that’s going to be for just some more time for you 🙂 He will grow up soon.
I have a very bad habit of sleeping very late in the night, never have imagined that it might even cause cancer and this habit is quite common with many people whom I know. So just wanted to share this good piece of information 🙂
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I like that show. Ya that was such a useful post. Sleep is very essential but our generation is use to late night sleeps, we all know its bad but somehow its difficult to change
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If I workout, by 10, I am so tired I sleep on the couch sometimes.. Otherwise, I don’t sleep until 2am sometimes. Great post 🙂
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Many times even after workout I won’t get sleep Charanya 😛 because I keep thinking of something. I am trying my level best to concentrate on sleeping 🙂
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Even am bad at this I don’t get a peaceful sleep just roll around for hours….This info you share is very useful but no idea how to get into this habit of peaceful sleep…..
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There are lots of way Chitra, I am also trying yet to achieve fully, some of it are
Workout
Bath in the late evening
Meditation
Drink milk before you sleep
if workout no possible , go for fast walking, jogging
No gadget once got into bed
Some times even after doing lot of workout I won’t get sleep because of some wavery thought that runs in my mind , so have to practice meditation.
Everything is practice, so we just need to try 🙂
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Your absolutely right ……theses gadgets are so addictive. …and now it 12.30 am but still not off to sleep. ….feel this is the time to sit peacefully and do some work but thatz not good…..need to change these habits. ….will see how to achieve it….thanx Malar. ….it was truly useful….
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I am very glad that this message could spark in, Thanks to the television channel who got this as a topic to discuss, first it was funny but later realized how dangerous it is….We should bring in the change 🙂
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Awesome Malar. Even I came across this problem, but after changing the mindset “Let me face, whatever happens”, I get proper sleep.
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Yes Deepa, we just have to set aside any issues and first thing for a proper health is sleep 🙂
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Excellent useful post, Malar. Great, you are spreading the good stuff. Wish you continue the good habit. You can try adding kasa kasa in the dinner dishes as it induces sleep.
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Yes anna, I myself have tried kasa kasa some time back. But that gives too much of a drowsy effect and I got to know that they use it in narcotic drugs. And it made me addictive to it. So pulled myself out of it. So now trying to analyze all those which stops me from sleeping and trying to eradicate those reason 🙂
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Thats a nice write up of things learnt in a show 🙂 Keep going Malar 🙂
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🙂 Thanks
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Dear all,
Kasa Kasa is a good ayurvedic medicine. This is suggested for adults / children and even pregnant woman and has no side effects. If you feel really drowsy then you that much you have not slept well before. Its a neutrifier. Take it along with warm milk.
Else aswagandha powder with milk is also good.
Its better u continue that rather to going to doctors and taking medicines..
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