{"id":7835,"date":"2021-12-21T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psicopico.com\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2021-12-21T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:12:42","slug":"relacion-entre-estres-y-dormir-soluciones-para-conciliar-un-sueno-tranquilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psicopico.com\/en\/relacion-entre-estres-y-dormir-soluciones-para-conciliar-un-sueno-tranquilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship between stress and sleep: solutions to get a restful sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"One of the most basic needs of the human being is to\u00a0sleep\u00a0.\u00a0However, for many people it even becomes an added problem to the rest of daily worries, which does nothing more than\u00a0accumulate stress even at night\u00a0.\u00a0As this break from our mental activity does not occur, we wake up tired and with little desire to take on a new day.<\/p>\n

During the night, intrusive thoughts related to not sleeping itself are our worst enemy.\u00a0Improving our sleep hygiene is key to eliminating\u00a0<\/span>sleeping difficulties<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and increasing our general well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dream: our stress recycling plant<\/h2>\n

Stress is an adaptive psychological process through which psychophysiological mechanisms are activated in our body that allow us to collect more information and face situations and conflicts in our day-to-day life as quickly as possible.\u00a0It is like a state of alert that keeps us active, attentive and motivated both mentally and physically.\u00a0However, this brain activity accumulates waste in our brain that must be eliminated so as not to overload it with stressful material unnecessarily.<\/p>\n

Recently, a study from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) has discovered that\u00a0during sleep there is an increase in blood flow in our brain\u00a0during the REM phase, whose mission is to eliminate all those wastes that we have accumulated throughout the day (\u00a0Hayashi\u00a0et al\u00a0, 2021)\u00a0.\u00a0This is the reason why when we get to sleep we eliminate part of our\u00a0accumulated\u00a0brain waste\u00a0(stress among others) and our anxiety levels are balanced.\u00a0If not, our stress level continues to rise even at night.\u00a0When we get a good night’s sleep, we wake up more relaxed and calm.<\/p>\n

In addition, another phenomenon of great importance occurs during sleep.\u00a0which is the\u00a0consolidation of the information\u00a0we receive throughout the day, especially by assimilating emotions into our memory, according to a study from this same year from the University of Michigan (Aton\u00a0et al\u00a0, 2021).\u00a0For this reason, a deficit in sleep can mean that the next day we have to re-process the same emotional information from the previous day if we want to consolidate it, so we continue to accumulate stress in an indirect way.<\/p>\n

What if we don’t sleep?<\/h2>\n

Apart from these cognitive effects on the processing of our information and the lack of brain cleaning and hygiene that lack of sleep produces, when we accumulate lack of sleep due to stress there are another series of key characteristic symptoms:<\/p>\n