Spring turns sleep upside down … and may disturb your waking time. Here is the advice of an expert if it happens to you.
Season changes, as is the case right now, can slightly modify our organic clock and our sleep rhythms. Many of us tend to wake up before the wake -up ringtone. Which can be annoying because it feels like you “spoil” precious minutes of sleep. However, it is a fairly natural phenomenon and there is a very simple reason for that.
“”The arrival of spring is a period when you need to sleep less, explains Damien Davenne, emeritus researcher at the University of Caen and chronobiologist specializing in rhythms of life. Overall, in January-February, we need 1 to 2 hours more sleep per night. But we do not generally respect it because we are used to going to bed and getting up at the usual time. While in the spring, we are going towards a decrease in the need for sleep: the hormonal balance changes slightly, the days lie down, the increase in the light intensity slows down the production of melatonin (the sleep hormone) and increases the secretion of serotonin (hormone of happiness). There is the sun that comes back, motivation with and we will naturally wake up a little earlier than usual, for example 10 to 15 minutes before wake up“.
Be careful not to make bad decisions for the quality of your sleep if you are awake before your alarm clock. According to our interlocutor, if you wake up less than 30 minutes before your awakening, you should not go back to sleep. “”This drowsiness does not bring you any additional rest, so no need to insist on going back to sleep since it obviously does not remain enough time to start again on a complete sleep cycle (90 minutes). You can get up and start your day“, He recommends.
Most people live well an alarm clock that occurs about ten minutes before waking up because they get up naturally, at the end of a sleep cycle and feel less tired when you wake up, reassures Damien Davenne. And in general, it is always more brutal and more traumatic for the body to wake up with the alarm of an alarm clock or your phone than to wake up naturally.
