Table of contents:
- People who sleep late at night have high creativity
- People who like to stay up late are more immune to stress
- People who often stay up late have a higher IQ
There is countless health information calling for the benefits of getting enough 7-9 hours of sleep per day and warning about the health risks of staying up late. But as it turns out, there are a number of health benefits of staying up late, which you may not have known before. (Psstt … It is said, people who like to sleep late at night have thinner brains!)
People who sleep late at night have high creativity
People who go to and wake up on a schedule may be more productive, but those who stay up late are more creative people. This is because getting into a daily routine is about what you can do as much as possible with the little time you have.
Those who wake up in the morning spend their mornings doing their usual routines, such as going to the gym, stopping by the coffee shop, and leaving for work. When you wake up at 6 a.m., you will usually feel tired by nine o'clock, which means you are tired by five o'clock in the afternoon. You usually start your day with a burst of energy, but by noon into the afternoon you are already feeling tormented by the energy that is already very tight.
The opposite of those who like to sleep late at night. They take advantage of the time at night to work and do activities as usual, to create new things. And their energy will remain constant to pass the time in the morning. And this is evidenced by a research team from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan who found that people who like to stay up late are more likely to develop creative and original solutions to problems than early risers.
What's more, when researchers at the University of Alberta compared the strengths of nine people who like to wake up early with 9 people who like to sleep late. The latter group experienced a central nervous system boost, thereby increasing motor cortex and spinal cord excitability. That means the group of people staying up late had a higher energy boost in general, which could explain why they have trouble keeping up with an earlier sleep schedule.
The same thing was also found by a research team from the University of Liege in Belgium in 2009. They reported that people who like to stay up late have higher brain activity in areas associated with focus and attention, even after 10 hours of staying up late, than people. people who sleep enough and wake up in the morning.
People who like to stay up late are more immune to stress
Those who sleep late and wake up during the day may often be seen as lazy people, and lose a lot of time to start activities. However, those who wake up late are in a better mood throughout the day than those who sleep and wake up on time.
Experts believe that the tendency to be in a bad mood due to waking up in the morning is linked to longer hours of morning activity to take care of various activities at one time and to continue to be busy throughout the day, so it is quicker to feel frustrated, irritated, and ultimately lack of energy. On the other hand, people who like to stay up late and wake up later feel more relaxed about the day.
The research team from the University of Westminster analyzed the saliva of 42 volunteers with different sleep schedules eight times throughout the day for two days. After analyzing all the samples, they found that people who slept on time and woke up earlier had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than those who stayed up late and woke up later. Early risers also reported more frequent headaches, colds and body chills, and muscle aches - which put the mood down even more.
People who often stay up late have a higher IQ
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary scientist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has an explanation for why late night sleepers have this advantage. According to him, humans are evolutionarily designed to be more active during the day because humans cannot see in the dark, and therefore need light to guide the direction we are going. That's why we are "programmed" to wake up at sunrise and go to sleep at night.
Kanazawa continued, a more intelligent individual deliberately rebelled against this evolutionary "destiny" and thus chose to stay awake all night and sleep at sunrise.
Kanazawa's research shows that those who create new evolutionary patterns (compared to those who persist with the normal patterns developed by our ancestors) are the most progressive group of humans. After all, those who are the first to change, dare to break out of stereotypes in search of something new, are always the most progressive and intelligent in a society.
Researchers at the University of Madrid looked at the circadian rhythms (biological clocks) of 1,000 adolescents and then evaluated their academic performance and general intelligence. About 25 percent of them include children who go to bed on time and wake up in the morning, 32 percent are those who like to sleep late at night, and the rest are in between.
The group that likes to stay up late shows a higher quality of inductive reasoning than the other two groups. Inductive reasoning is the cognitive aspect of the brain measuring general intelligence and can be very predictive of academic performance. The late night sleeper group also tended to have better job careers and higher incomes, when followed up at a later date.
