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:

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Yi-Ping Cho (Marssi)

新冠肺炎疫情對睡眠的影響 至少有下列四種：

quantity, quality, timing and dreaming.

質、量、時機，和作夢。

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The first is sleep quantity.

第一，睡眠的量。

A study conducted across Europe,

一項在歐洲、美國、亞洲進行的研究

as well as the US and Asia,

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

發現平均而言大家的睡眠時間

在疫情期間，每晚 多了約二十五分鐘，

during the pandemic.

Second, there has been a change in sleep quality.

第二，睡眠的品質也改變了。

Now, sleep has of course been a real challenge

當然，在疫情期間，

對許多人而言睡眠是很困難的。

for many of us during the pandemic.

And indeed, in the US,

的確，在美國，

almost 60 percent of people felt

近 60% 的人

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

覺得他們的睡眠品質 在疫情期間變得更差。

However, 40 percent of the people didn’t feel

然而，40% 的人

不覺得睡眠有變糟，

that their sleep was any worse,

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

所以，就疫情期間的睡眠品質而言，

每個人的反應似乎都很不同。

when it comes to sleep quality and the pandemic.

The third change we’ve discovered concerns sleep timing.

我們發現的第三種改變 和睡眠時機有關。

Since many people didn’t have to commute to work

因為很多人不用通勤上班，

or get the kids to school in the morning,

或者一早送孩子上學，

on average, people were going to bed later

平均來說，在疫情期間，

and waking up later during the pandemic.

大家比較晚上床也比較晚起床。

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

我想，這就是屬於 「夜貓子的復仇」。

And I see it as one of the positive consequences

我把這一點視為是疫情 造成的正向影響。

that came out of the pandemic.

The fourth change is that people reported dreaming more

第四種改變是 大家回報自己作更多夢，

and also having COVID-related dreams.

且會有和新冠肺炎相關的夢境。

And this is likely due to the fact

可能的原因是

that people were sleeping later into the morning,

大家早上起床的時間比較晚，

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

大部分作夢都是在這段時間，

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

此外，作夢也能協助 我們處理情緒創傷。

However, there are many essential questions that still remain.

然而，還有許多重要問題尚未解答。

One that I am particularly interested in answering

我特別想回答的其中一個問題就是：

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

沒睡飽就去接種新冠肺炎疫苗，

or your COVID booster in the future,

或未來的追加劑，

changes the effectiveness of that vaccination,

是否會影響到疫苗的效力，

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

因為每年的流感疫苗就有這個現象。

What we do know for certain though is this:

有一點是我們可以肯定的：

your sleep health is intimately related to your immune health.

你的睡眠健康和你的 免疫健康有密切的關係。

Said simply:

簡言之：

sleep is a life support system.

睡眠是一種生命維持系統。