4 ways the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we sleep | Sleeping With Science

Transcriber: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer:

The COVID pandemic has changed sleep in at least four different ways:

翻译人员: huilin Wanh 校对人员: Helen Chang

新冠疫情至少在四个方面 改变了人们的睡眠：

quantity, quality, timing and dreaming.

包括睡眠时长、质量、时间以及梦境。

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The first is sleep quantity.

第一，睡眠时长。

A study conducted across Europe,

一份涉及欧洲、

as well as the US and Asia,

美国和亚洲的研究发现

found that on average people were sleeping around 25 minutes more each night

在新冠疫情期间， 平均每人每晚的睡眠

during the pandemic.

比以往要多25分钟。

Second, there has been a change in sleep quality.

第二，睡眠质量也有变化。

Now, sleep has of course been a real challenge

疫情期间，对我们大多数人来说，

睡眠的确成为了一个实际问题。

for many of us during the pandemic.

And indeed, in the US,

实际上，在美国，

almost 60 percent of people felt

将近60%的人发现

that the quality of their sleep had become worse during the pandemic.

他们的睡眠质量在疫情期间变差了。

However, 40 percent of the people didn’t feel

然而，40%的人并没有感受到

that their sleep was any worse,

他们的睡眠质量变差了。

so there seems to be quite a difference in the response across individuals

因此，当谈到疫情 对睡眠质量的影响时，

when it comes to sleep quality and the pandemic.

不同个体间似乎存在一定差异。

The third change we’ve discovered concerns sleep timing.

我们发现的第三个变化是睡眠时间。

Since many people didn’t have to commute to work

在疫情期间，由于很多人不需要上班

or get the kids to school in the morning,

或者清早送孩子去上学，

on average, people were going to bed later

人们通常更晚上床睡觉，

and waking up later during the pandemic.

醒的也更晚了。

And I think this is a case of “Revenge of the Night Owls.”

我认为，这是“夜猫子的反击”。

And I see it as one of the positive consequences

同时我也认为，这是在疫情影响下

that came out of the pandemic.

产生的积极结果。

The fourth change is that people reported dreaming more

第四，人们反映做梦比之前更多了，

and also having COVID-related dreams.

并且，梦境也与新冠病毒相关。

And this is likely due to the fact

这可能是因为

that people were sleeping later into the morning,

人们在清晨更晚入睡，

which is the time when we get most of our dream sleep,

而清晨是我们做梦最多的时段，

and the fact that dreaming helps us deal with emotional trauma.

实际上，梦境会帮助我们 解决情绪创伤。

However, there are many essential questions that still remain.

但是，还有许多关键问题没有解决。

One that I am particularly interested in answering

第一个我非常感兴趣 并且想要弄明白的问题是，

is whether or not a lack of sleep before getting your COVID shot,

在你接种新冠疫苗

or your COVID booster in the future,

或者未来的疫苗加强针之前，

changes the effectiveness of that vaccination,

缺乏睡眠是否会改变疫苗的有效性。

just as we know it does with your annual flu shot.

就像我们已知的睡眠缺乏 对流感疫苗接种的影响。

What we do know for certain though is this:

我们能够确定的是：

your sleep health is intimately related to your immune health.

你的睡眠健康 和你的免疫健康密切相关。

Said simply:

简单来说：

sleep is a life support system.

睡眠就是生命支持系统。