醒醒吧，人們。你們?cè)谒呱掀垓_了自己

醒醒吧，人們。你們?cè)谒呱掀垓_了自己

What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream.

你所相信的睡眠可能只是一個(gè)白日夢(mèng)。

Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health's School of Medicine, who conducted a study published Tuesday in the journal Sleep Health.

紐約大學(xué)朗格尼健康醫(yī)學(xué)院的研究人員于本周二在《睡眠健康》期刊上發(fā)表了一項(xiàng)研究，他們稱，很多人對(duì)睡眠的理解缺乏事實(shí)依據(jù)，甚至可能對(duì)健康有害。

Here are 4 very wrong, unhealthy assumptions we often make about sleep, an act in which we spend an estimated third of our lives -- or, if we lived to 100, about 12,227 combined days.

以下是我們經(jīng)常對(duì)睡眠做出的4個(gè)非常錯(cuò)誤、不健康的假設(shè)。我們一生中大約有三分之一的時(shí)間都在睡眠中度過(guò)，如果我們活到100歲，那么我們總共有12227天的睡眠時(shí)間。

1. Adults need five or fewer hours of sleep

成年人需要5小時(shí)或更少的睡眠

"If you wanted to have the ability to function at your best during the day, not to be sick, to be mentally strong, to be able to have the lifestyle that you would enjoy, how many hours do you have to sleep?" asked senior study investigator Girardin, a professor in the Department of Population Health.

“如果你想有能力在白天發(fā)揮最好的功能，不生病，精神煥發(fā)，能夠過(guò)你喜歡的生活方式，你需要睡幾個(gè)小時(shí)？”人口健康部門(mén)的教授，高級(jí)研究調(diào)查員吉拉爾丹問(wèn)道。

"It turns out a lot of people felt less than five hours of sleep a night was just fine," he said. "That's the most problematic assumption we found."

事實(shí)證明，很多人覺(jué)得每晚睡眠不足5小時(shí)就可以了。”“這是我們發(fā)現(xiàn)的最有問(wèn)題的假設(shè)。”

We're supposed to get between seven and 10 hours of sleep each night, depending on our age, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that a third of Americans sleep fewer than seven hours a night. According to World Sleep Day statistics, sleep deprivation is threatening the health of up to 45% of the global population.

根據(jù)我們的年齡，我們每晚應(yīng)該睡7到10個(gè)小時(shí)，但美國(guó)疾病控制與預(yù)防中心表示，三分之一的美國(guó)人每晚睡眠不足7個(gè)小時(shí)。根據(jù)世界睡眠日的統(tǒng)計(jì)，睡眠不足正威脅著全球45%的人口的健康。

2. It's healthy to be able to fall asleep 'anywhere, anytime'

“隨時(shí)隨地”入睡對(duì)健康有益

Falling asleep as soon as the car/train/airplane starts moving is not a sign of a well-rested person, sleep experts say. In fact, it's just the opposite.

睡眠專家說(shuō)，汽車、火車、飛機(jī)一開(kāi)動(dòng)就睡著并不是一個(gè)休息好了的人的標(biāo)志。事實(shí)上，恰恰相反。

"Falling asleep instantly anywhere, anytime, is a sign that you are not getting enough sleep and you're falling into 'micro sleeps' or mini-sleep episodes," Robbins said. 'It means your body is so exhausted that whenever it has a moment, it's going to start to repay its sleep debt."

羅賓斯說(shuō)：“隨時(shí)隨地立即入睡是一個(gè)信號(hào)，表明你沒(méi)有得到足夠的睡眠，你正在進(jìn)入‘微睡眠’或迷你睡眠階段。”“這意味著你的身體已經(jīng)非常疲憊，只要有時(shí)間，它就會(huì)開(kāi)始補(bǔ)覺(jué)。”

3. Your brain and body can adapt to less sleep

你的大腦和身體可以適應(yīng)較少的睡眠

People also believed that the brain and body could adapt and learn to function optimally with less sleep. That too is a myth, experts say. That's because your body cycles through four distinct phases of sleep to fully restore itself.

人們還相信，大腦和身體可以適應(yīng)并學(xué)會(huì)在睡眠較少的情況下發(fā)揮最佳功能。專家說(shuō)，這也是一個(gè)誤解。這是因?yàn)槟愕纳眢w要經(jīng)歷四個(gè)不同的睡眠階段才能完全恢復(fù)。

In stage one, you start to lightly sleep, and you become disengaged from your environment in stage two, where you will spend most of your total sleep time. Stages three and four contain the deepest, most restorative sleep and the dreamy state of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep.

在第一階段，你開(kāi)始輕度睡眠，在第二階段你從你的環(huán)境中解脫出來(lái)，在那里你將花費(fèi)大部分睡眠時(shí)間。第三階段和第四階段包含最深，最具恢復(fù)力的睡眠和快速眼動(dòng)睡眠的夢(mèng)幻狀態(tài)。

It's tough to wake a person from deep sleep. If you do wake, you can feel groggy and fatigued; mental performance can be affected for up to 30 minutes, studies show.

要把一個(gè)人從沉睡中喚醒是很難的。研究表明，如果你醒了你可能會(huì)感到昏昏欲睡和疲憊：精神表現(xiàn)可能會(huì)受到長(zhǎng)達(dá)30分鐘的影響。

4. Drinking alcohol before bed helps you fall sleep

睡前喝酒有助于入睡

Do you think a nightcap before bed will help you fall asleep and stay asleep? Dream on.

你認(rèn)為睡前喝一杯酒能幫助你入睡嗎?做夢(mèng)吧。

Alcohol may help you fall asleep, but that's where the benefits end, Robbins said. Instead, it traps you in the lighter stages of sleep and "dramatically reduces the quality of your rest at night."

羅賓斯說(shuō)，酒精可能會(huì)幫助你入睡，但好處僅此而已。相反，它把你困在較淺的睡眠階段，“極大地降低了你晚上的睡眠質(zhì)量。”