How it affects the change from time to sleep

At two will be the three and, as a consequence of that, the dream patterns throughout Europe They will put themselves Above up. Another year. And it is logical: the day after time change, people It takes 33 minutes more than average In going to bed. In addition, they wake up 19 minutes before.

That is, what does it affect us? Clear. And not only in quantitative terms; but also in qualitative term. The quality of sleep during the week following time change is frankly bad. Much worse in people between 20 and 30.

These are U’s conclusionsn Analysis of sleep patterns of Samsung Health users in more than 40 countries and is interesting.

Not because it is extremely representative. After all, the data starts from a huge sample selection bias: they are only its users. However, it does allow us to approach this curious phenomenon with first -hand data. Something that, until recently, was quite complicated.

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The Spanish surprise. That’s where a surprise comes to us. As I say, the analysis covers more than 40 countries around the world where the time change occurs. Of all of them, Spain is the one who showed greater stability in your sleep patterns. That is, Samsung Health users in Spain are the ones who least affected themselves in their dream for the hourly change.

On average, they only delayed bedtime in 16 minutes (the country closest to us was Italy with 19) and the schedule of waking was only affected in five minutes during the first week; two during the second.

Why does this happen? Well, the truth is that it is difficult to say. A possible reason may be, of course, that the Spaniards We go to bed very late. That leaves us little margin, on average, to delay the time to go to bed.

However, there are other possibilities. As Jose María Olalla has defends for yearsProfessor of Physics at the University of Seville, in countries like ours “it cannot be said that (the change of seasonal schedule) is a bad idea.”

Olalla explains that “at summer time it works well in summer and winter time works well in winter. Having summer time in winter is complicated, having the winter time in summer is also complicated. For different reasons, but it will always be a problem.”

There are countries where change is a solution and others in which not. That is, the change of time is a simple, coordinated and fast way to adapt the schedule of the whole society to the fact that, in summer, the sun rises before. It is true that it can CAUSE DISPRUPTIONS DURING THE FIRST DAYS or weeks; But taking into account that seasonality is natural, that change would have to occur yes or yes. And the disruptions would remain in one way or another.

However, we must not take it very seriously. On the one hand, we do not know how wide the sample in Spain. On the other, as well as Olalla told us“people usually do what they want, even in front of the official schedule. They do strange things, things that often collide with what theoretically is adequate.”

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