Some people can fall asleep immediately after going to bed, while others have to go through a longer period of tossing and turning before finally falling asleep. There is also a big difference in the amount of sleep people need, as well as the time they wake up.
Some people need less sleep to function normally, while most people need at least eight hours. But it's important to know that the recommendation for adults is at least seven hours, and sleep itself is very important for our health.
Many people wake up to a loud alarm that interrupts their sleep and reminds them to get up and get ready for work. But some people have a special ability to wake up at the right time, without an alarm, a phenomenon called "precision waking."
What is precision awakening?
Sleep expert Robert Stikgold explained that this refers to people who wake up a minute before their alarm goes off, and even if they set their alarm for an earlier time, they wake up before it again. However, he added that while this happens to many people, sleep experts consider it both “impossible” and a “scientific mystery.”
Although the body seems to be able to maintain a relatively routine sleep schedule, some people's ability to wake up whenever they want is difficult to explain.
Jan Born, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of Tübingen, Germany, studied this phenomenon to see if it could be demonstrated, although it could not be fully explained.
The study involved 15 people who usually wake up between 7.00:7.30 and 6.00:9.00 a.m. They were placed in a sleep laboratory in two groups. One group was told they would wake up at 6.00:XNUMX a.m., and the other at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. The first group woke up at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m., even though they were not prepared for it.
The researchers noticed that the hormones that prepare the body for waking up began to be released around 5.00:XNUMX a.m. for the first group, as if they knew they would be getting up in an hour and that the process was about to begin.
Even though these people got up at a time when their biological clock wasn't ready, their bodies started getting ready to wake up because they were told they would be up at 6.00:XNUMX, writes LadBible.
"It is known that there is a mechanism in the brain that you can use at will to influence your body and brain while you sleep," the professor said, according to Net.hr.
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