A night’s sleep is considered to be “restful” when sleeping at least 4 to 6 sleep cycles of 90 minutes each.
Sleep is the keystone with all our health: it allows you to recover fatigue, eliminate stress, promote the memorization of information, strengthen creativity … If we spend bad nights, everything vacillates. “”When you wake up, you can have the impression of being tired despite a good night because the body is not woken up, it is released, numb and not aware of what surrounds it. What really matters is to see in what condition we are 30 minutes after getting up, then over the day“, Advises Caroline Rome, sophrologist and sleep specialist. If you feel tired throughout the day, you have to look more closely at its sleep pace.
“”It is not very advised to line up every day at the bedtime of your partner. Either it’s too early for us and we’re going to turn in bed without sleeping. Either it’s too late and we fight against fatigue. At least 3 times a week, we try to “take your sleep door” to yourself, otherwise the brain loses its bearings“, she continues. And we all have a different sleep door. The good hour to go to bed is the so-called” pleasant “one, in other words the one where the first signs of fatigue occur: from the most obvious (eyes that bite, heavy eyelids or yawn) to the most subtle (the body becomes heavy, the fact of having cold or small curly, to reread the same phrase movie…). “Locate this hour and stand ready to go to bed a few minutes before“, insists the sophrologist.
To help you determine this time, “Observe the rhythm you take naturally during your vacation, especially the 2nd week of leave (usually the first week of “served” holidays to catch up with sleep debt and is not representative of your real sleep needs)“, Explains Dr. Marc Rey, neurologist and sleep specialist, and ask yourself the following questions: if you lived at your own pace (the one you like the most), at what time would you go to bed if you were free to organize your evening? At what time are you wake up naturally in the morning? Are you productive and in a good mood with 9 hours of sleep?Depending on the answers, make observations, draw conclusions“, Continues our interlocutor.
In general, a night of sleep is considered to be “restful” when you sleep at least 4 to 6 sleep cycles of 90 minutes each, that is to say 6 to 9 hours (small sleepers will need 6 hours while big sleeves will have to have their 9 hours to be good). For example, if our alarm clocks at 7 a.m., it is best to go to bed between 10 p.m. (to have 9 a.m. of sleep) and 1 a.m. (if you only need 6 hours), with obviously the right reflexes like: no screen 1 hour before bed, avoid alcohol in the evening, light dinner, avoid overheated rooms …
