”Dreams are natural and the meaning they express cannot be deliberately misinterpreted, just as plants grow and animals forage for food ……,” said Jungian master of Western psychology. Sleep, like eating, is a natural process. Most people sleep at least for a while within 24 hours, and people who never sleep have not appeared so far. Sleep is a natural response to human fatigue, and although so far scientists still have not studied clearly what exactly is going on in human sleep, people know the importance of sleep. Yet not being able to sleep is an important problem that quite a few people have to face. It is said that about one third of the population suffers from insomnia at certain times of the year, and in psychiatrists and psychologists, almost eighty to ninety percent of patients or help-seekers suffer from tossing and turning at night and not being able to sleep smoothly, so many people suffer from insomnia, what is the reason? Today we talk about the problem of insomnia. First of all, most of the insomnia can find the reason, there is no insomnia for no reason, insomnia is like an iceberg exposed to the surface, there must be an ice body under the surface that we can not see temporarily but exists objectively. However, for various reasons, insomniacs often do not see or recognize these causes of insomnia, so insomniacs are often very distressed and panicked, and often think that insomnia appears out of nowhere, or will randomly speculate. The external environment of sleep is one of the most commonly speculated causes of sleep disruption. Many people who seek medical attention will complain that it is the sound of cars on the road outside their window that makes it difficult to sleep. It is true that the sleep environment can affect people’s sleep, for example, new to a place, night sleep will be affected; travel in the same room with new companions snoring; the softness of the bed; the intensity of light before going to bed; air smell, etc. Therefore, people will often think of the sleep environment first and will make a lot of attempts to improve sleep, such as requiring absolute silence or listening to soothing soft music to sleep, thickening the mattress to increase the comfort of the bed. mattress to increase the comfort of the bed, sleep with the lights on or change to thick blackout curtains, etc. However, for most persistent insomnia that is not due to temporary environmental causes, these improvements tend to have little effect because the external physical environment of sleep is often not the main cause of insomnia. Physical illnesses and pains are the more easily perceived causes of insomnia. It is not difficult to understand how painful wounds, physical discomfort, and postural restrictions caused by illness can easily affect the sleep process. Most physical illnesses are accompanied by disturbances in nighttime sleep, but most of this insomnia will return as the illness subsides and, except for a few with psychological problems, will not last long. Some special physical conditions such as apnea syndrome and obesity can also lead to sleep problems, for example, people often use “snoring like thunder” to describe a person who is sleeping well, but in fact, snoring itself is a manifestation of poor ventilation during sleep, and patients with apnea syndrome often have obvious snoring sounds, and poor airway or apnea often lead to temporary hypoxia of the brain, when sleep itself is problematic. The state of the body before going to bed can sometimes interfere with falling asleep. Some people will do exercise before bed, such as running before bed, some will watch exciting movies before bed, such as watching horror movies at night, some will drink coffee or tea or high-sugar beverages in the evening, some will smoke two cigarettes before bed to relieve boredom, some will do thinking that requires a high degree of brain use before bed, such as lying in bed thinking about major decision problems, some will have a big dinner or a full nighttime snack, and so on. These bedtime activities or substances often change the physiological state of the human body, especially the state of the human brain, so that people do not easily enter a calm and relaxed state, and a necessary condition for sleep is in a calm and relaxed state. The need for sleep is also naturally an important factor affecting sleep. People fall asleep more easily when they are tired, those hard-working construction workers can fall asleep on a noisy and bumpy bus, and the huge physical and or mental exertion will make sleep very easy and not easily interrupted. Many insomniacs tend to ignore this, and once they lose sleep, insomniacs will often “catch up” during the day to try to recover the loss of sleep, and some will spend the whole day in bed “resting” because of the secondary fatigue and tiredness, not knowing that this This “rest” and “catch-up sleep” can greatly reduce the amount of sleep needed and lead to less sleep at night or lighter and shorter sleep. Some insomniacs have also become serious problems precisely because of this inappropriate way of making short-lived insomnia last or spread. Therefore, regardless of insomnia, do not lie in bed during non-sleeping hours the next day, and do not “catch up” on sleep, as your “lost sleep” will be automatically “made up” the next night. Sleep rhythm disorder is also very easy to cause insomnia. There are many friends who love to stay up late, not to sleep until one or two o’clock, the next day not to sleep until 10 o’clock not to get up, some even not at all in the morning, directly up to eat lunch. Some are not fixed bedtime, sometimes early to bed, sometimes sleepless nights of indulgence. Others work long nights and sleep during the day. Sleep rhythm is one of the important biological rhythms of the human body, disrupted sleep rhythm will disrupt the normal pattern of the human biological clock, causing many potential health problems. For example, people who work long night shifts are more prone to illness and depression than others. Therefore, the development of a regular and reasonable rhythm of work and rest is an important element of long-term physical and mental health care. Various mental diseases and psychological disorders are important causes of insomnia. Various depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses often have insomnia problems, and insomnia itself is an important symptom of psychosomatic diseases, often manifesting insomnia in the latent period or early stage of the disease, and insomnia can sometimes become a vane of the effectiveness of the treatment of these diseases, and once the treatment is effective, insomnia often improves. However, because of the prevalence of insomnia itself, people often ignore the disease behind the insomnia and focus only on the symptoms of insomnia, thus delaying the treatment of mental illness. Excessive attention to sleep and ineffective interventions are the most direct causes of insomnia in general. Sleep itself is a natural process, lying in bed, with random thoughts popping up in our heads, our consciousness drifting like a kite with its strings untied, without direction, getting farther and farther away and blurred, and we rarely pay attention to sleep itself. Once we realize that we have not fallen asleep or ask ourselves to fall asleep soon for some reason, our cerebral cortex becomes excited, we are clearly aware of our body sensations, environmental sounds, air temperature, etc., and our mind becomes clear and thoughtful, and it becomes very difficult to fall asleep. Sleep is like a bouncing ball, if you want it to calm down as soon as possible, the best way is to stop hitting it hard and let it bounce on its own, it will soon stop and stay still. Excessive attention to sleep can lead to a variety of irrational and ineffective behavior, such as the first thing to wake up every day is to look at the watch, and then mentally calculate how many hours of sleep yesterday, during the day will intentionally reduce some activities and increase the active rest time, at night will be earlier than usual to climb into bed ready for sleep, etc.. These deliberate “adjustments” will make the insomniac more concerned about the adjusted sleep situation, thus increasing the interference with the natural process of sleep itself and worsening insomnia. Psychological stress is the least perceived but often the most basic cause of insomnia. Many insomniacs often do not feel stressed, and many even compare themselves to many others who are in a much more privileged position. There are many kinds of psychological stress, and it is easier to realize that those stressful life events, such as interpersonal conflicts, family conflicts, emotional and marital disagreements, economic pressure, professional workload, frustrating trauma with impact, etc., these stressful events cause direct pressure on people as a direct manifestation of personal emotional tension (i.e., anxiety), and these anxiety and tension can cause sleep through direct and indirect multiple ways These anxieties and tensions can cause disturbances in sleep through several direct and indirect ways. In addition, unhealthy lifestyles and unresolved internal psychological conflicts are also important sources of stress. For example, a long and monotonous work life rhythm, too narrow life circle, too much emphasis on responsibility and personal principles of behavior, etc.. These invisible stresses are often very hidden but persistent and cumulative, indirectly affecting sleep through the person’s emotions. Dreams can sometimes be the cause of sleep problems, for example, some people think that it is not normal for them to dream in their sleep in the hope that they can be treated for a “dreamless night”, others always have nightmares and wake up feeling nervous about them, etc. Dreams as a phenomenon in the process of sleep is bound to occur, it is estimated that, except for the gods, no human does not dream, so the above-mentioned sleep problems caused by dreams, most of them have problems in thinking and understanding or psychological level, but sleep is a reflection of these problems. Sleep is one of the human instincts, but it is obvious that sleep, like eating, can be disturbed by many internal and external aspects, so it is necessary to understand the secrets of sleep, and it is necessary to know these disturbances to sleep. You have to take action to reduce these disturbances in order to get a better sleep.