This is why you fall asleep on the couch, but you can't when you get to bed

Ayou sleep easily on the couch, but when you get to bed, do you have trouble falling asleep? Know how this habit may be affecting the quality of your rest.

The couch may be more comfortable, but that's not the only possibility to be analyzed. 

Investigators University of Standford they simplify the reason why the couch seems more inviting to sleep than the bed. Attention, there are consequences to sleep quality.

In the article “Environmental Factors of Insomnia”, a Stanford Health Care reveals that this condition is quite common. In question, they point out, they may also be both environmental and biological factors, that is, after all, it is not only the quality of their couch that conquers it.

Regardless of the origin of the reason why you lose sleep, the sofa can become, in the background, a “trigger of drowsiness”, they say.

What happens after you fall asleep on the couch?

He woke up on the couch, realizing that he had fallen asleep in this place, inevitably the process of going to bed can help to “stop sleep”, as these experts describe.

“ Get up, walk to the bedroom, turn on the lights, brush your teeth, change your clothes or start thinking about the next day can further increase this alert state”, add.

Alongside that, the bed can begin to associate with a increased pressure to fall asleep: “ When you spend too much time in bed without falling asleep, you can develop a negative association between bed and being awake, worried or frustrated – what they call “conditional activation”.

And when ‘we didn’t pass the embers’ on the couch, but can’t we also fall asleep in bed?

The Washington Post reinforces the previous idea of conditioned activation under these circumstances and, in other cases, at the same source, a therapist speaks of the famous “pressure to sleep”, that is, it associates insomnia with the pressure we may feel to fall asleep, with the commitment of having to wake up early the next day, for example.

This pressure appears, therefore, as a response to “performance anxiety”, it adds.

Who could be more susceptible to this problem?

Here are the risk groups, according to Standford University:

• People who say they're more nocturnal and don't have a regular time to wake up.
• People who describe themselves as “worried” are at risk of suffering from higher levels of insomnia. “Learning to put aside concerns can help reduce this risk,” they describe.
• People who cannot relax after a day of high stress levels are more likely to sleep badly.
• People with other sleep disorders, such as restless leg syndrome and sleep apnea.
• Women are twice as likely to suffer from insomnia as men.
• The elderly are also more likely to suffer from this problem.