Counting sheep
Ξ December 28th, 2007 | → | ∇ Apprendre, Humour |
It’s not new, but I didn’t know that it was official. Two researchers from Oxford University have concluded in 2002: counting sheep is ineffective against insomnia!
This mental exercise, whose origin is probably a system of counting used by English and Scottish shepherds called Yan Tan Tethera, is particularly known in some European cultures. Unfortunately, this activity is so boring that the brain tries to find other topics of interest thereby stimulating his activity and keeping us awake longer than usual…
The two researchers made an experiment. They took 50 people who have trouble getting to sleep and asked a third of them to count sheep and another third to imagine a beach or a waterfall. The rest were asked not to do either so they could compare the results.
Those imagining the waterfall fell asleep 20 minutes earlier than usual and the sheep counters actually stayed awake longer than usual…
Good night to you all, including Mr Bean that my daughter Leora loves so much.
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