Morning rays of the sun instill a new hope, energy and passion in you as they pass through your "freshly opened" retina. Your eye lids may be too reluctant to open up too fast, but the "warmth" of the fresh morning eases the process of their blossoming up. But there are some fellows who do not need to put this effort- their eyes remain opened throughout the night and they only witness the "smooth passage" from a night to a day. They are the ones who are termed as the insomniacs. And a recent research has suggested that an individual has a tendency to turn into an insomniac if someone in his family is suffering from the same issue.
Universite Laval researchers have claimed that people, who have at least one insomniac in their families, have a 67 percent higher risk of suffering from the same condition. The study included 3,485 subjects. The study participants were asked to answer some queries on their as well as their immediate family members' sleep quality. They were also asked to fill out a questionnaire on the same topic in 12 successive months on three occasions.
It was observed that 40 percent of the respondents came from a family where at least one individual was an insomniac. Majority (76 percent) of them had one insomniac, 21 percent had two while 3 percent had even three insomniac family members.
The risk was found to increase with the number of insomniac family members. The said risk was 37 percent, 250 percent and 314 percent for one, two or three insomniac family members respectively. Researchers have blamed heredity for this issue.
Researchers are also of the opinion that physiological processes, which get in the way of sleep, may also share a responsibility. Again, we may get influenced by a family member's reaction to insomnia and we begin to react in a similar manner when we experience such a situation ourselves. This can go a long way to convert situational insomnia into a chronic issue.
Well, researches and talks about sleep deprivation will continue for the years to come and people will relish and cherish them at the breakfast table, during office lunch breaks and while having a nice dinner-time chat. But the real sufferers will continue looking for ways to stitch their eyes and to shut the doors of their "brain factory".
