At night, we sometimes wake up without being able to go back to sleep.
In addition to being unpleasant, these micro-awakenings mainly disrupt our sleep cycles.
To avoid starting to count sheep in the middle of the night, you still need to understand the possible reasons for these nocturnal awakenings in order to act in advance.
In a video published on his Instagram account on February 1, Professor Pierre Philip, head of the university sleep medicine department at Bordeaux University Hospital and author of the book
Relearn to sleep to be in good health,
indicates one of the causes.
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Going to bed too early
“A common mistake [...] is going to bed too early,” says the doctor.
“This will encourage waking up at night.”
To treat nocturnal awakenings, you can therefore try to delay your bedtime, “which will compress nighttime sleep and avoid these awakenings,” recommends the doctor.
To identify the ideal time to go to bed, the best thing is to listen to yourself and pay attention to the signs sent by our body.
This is what Séverine Brune, a psychologist trained in sleep and interviewed by
Madame Figaro,
emphasized in a previous article.
“Yawning, heavy eyelids, the feeling of cold, a stiff neck, are the first alerts,” she said.
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Anxiety and sleep apnea
During the month of January, the specialist also published two other videos in which he cited several common causes of sleep interruptions.
If people suffering from anxiety disorders can have broken nights, this is also the case for those who stop breathing during their sleep.
“This is called obstructive sleep apnea syndrome,” explains the doctor.
It is associated with snoring and unrestorative sleep.”
If you are concerned, a consultation in a sleep center is necessary, he finally recommends.