At night, if you are awake with worry, it is easy to work yourself into a state because your isolation and insignificance in the universe seems so much greater when everyone else is asleep. Also, it is against our natural circadian rhythms to be awake at this time because it unbalances hormones/chemicals in the brain. In a recent study of day-to-day happiness, the greatest common factor between people who reported lower levels of general happiness was poor sleep patterns. Which leads to the question: is unhappiness caused by poor sleeping habits or vice versa?
Amber Jones, Woolloomooloo
I think it could be both! You can be unhappy because you're not sleeping well and therefore your biological clock is messed up. However, it could also occur that because you've got so many things on your mind (which makes you unhappy), you're not able to sleep.
ReplyDeleteLike your blog! (especially the title)