一個能幫你快速入眠的小技巧_中英對照

Count sheep, have a hot bath and a glass of warm milk, douse yourself in lavender spray, cool down your room, wear socks to bed.

The internet is full of advice on how to get to sleep faster - and how to improve the quality of that sleep.

But not all of these will be practical, or work for you in terms of getting to sleep .

Maybe you hate milk and lavender makes you want to vomit.

In which case, a new and dazzlingly simple trick may be worth a try.

數綿羊、洗個熱水澡、喝杯熱牛奶、把自己浸在薰衣草噴霧中、用空調將房間調到很舒適的溫度以及穿上襪子睡覺。

互聯網上充滿了各種各樣的建議，來教你如何快速入睡以及如何提高睡眠質量。

但是這些建議并不都是實用的，或者對你有用。

有可能，牛奶或薰衣草的味道會讓你感到惡心，甚至讓你想吐。

在這種情況下，一個新奇且極其簡單的小把戲值得你嘗試一下。

Make a list.

Not an Arya Stark-style kill list, but specifically a to-do list of all those tasks and jobs which you haven't yet got round to doing.

這個有趣的方法就是列一份清單。當然了，我可不是讓你像艾莉亞·史塔克(《權力的游戲》里斯塔克家族的小女兒)那樣列一份殺人清單，而是一份你還沒有完成的任務和工作的待辦事項清單。

Dr Michael Scullin and his team at Baylor University in Texas studied 57 adults aged 19-30 and split them into two groups, which both slept over in a lab.Each group were given a writing task.

The first wrote about things they had already completed while the second wrote a list of tasks they needed to do.

What the researchers found was those in the second 'to-do list' group fell asleep a whole 16 minutes before the other group.

邁克爾·斯卡林博士和他在貝勒大學(位于德克薩斯州)的研究小組對57名19-30歲的成年人進行了研究。研究人員將這些成年人分成了兩組，讓他們分別在實驗室里的不同位置過夜，并給每個小組都安排了一個列清單的任務。

第一個小組的成員列下的是他們當天已經完成的事情，而第二個小組的成員則需要列出他們明天要去做的事情。

研究人員對這些進行了跟蹤調查，結果顯示，第二組(“待辦事項清單”組)的成員比第一組(“完成事項清單”組)的成員平均早睡了整整16分鐘。

Insomnia - sleep countdownWriting in the journal Experimental Psychology - researchers said worrying about future tasks “is a significant contributor to difficulty in falling asleep." They added:

"The more specifically participants wrote their to-do list, the faster they subsequently fell asleep, whereas the opposite trend was observed when participants wrote about completed activities."

研究人員們在《實驗心理學》雜志上表示：“擔心未來的任務”是使人入睡困難的一個重要因素。他們補充說道：“參與者寫下的待辦事項清單越具體，他們隨后就入睡得越快;而當參與者寫下已完成的活動時，我們所觀察到的趨勢正好相反”。

Worth a try?

值得一試吧?