They say you have to count sheep if you can't sleep. What is the principle?

It is generally said that you should count sheep when you can't sleep. Many people will wonder what this principle is, because it is said that many people with insomnia have successfully fallen asleep through this method. This method comes from the west.

First of all, in western countries, the expression of the word sheep is "sheep", and when you pronounce the word sheep in British English, people can feel that their breathing is long and relaxed by pronouncing the word "sheep", and with a series of mechanical pronunciations, when people do something mechanically for a long time, they will soon feel tired and their brains will quickly fall asleep.

And when you turn this series of pronunciations into conditioned reflex after a long time, you will also get tired of one thing. You basically start to fall asleep or fall asleep.

There is another saying: Westerners are counting sheep to sleep. In fact, the underlying principle is actually to use the subconscious to make you fall asleep. Simply put, in fact, the expression of the word sheep is "sheep", and the English pronunciation of sheep is very close to the sound of sleep. In the case of long-term mechanical reading, you will start to go out of tune, and then you will start to say to yourself, sleep, sleep, sleep. ......

Therefore, counting sheep when you can't sleep and counting sheep all the time is actually repeating sleeping with yourself. In this way, when you give yourself an instruction for a long time, your brain will start to carry it out and you can fall asleep.

But in Chinese pronunciation, there is no homophonic relationship between sheep and sleep, so you can't help sleep in Chinese.

Therefore, you are unlikely to fall asleep.

However, if you want to use Chinese to help you sleep for a long time, you will also get tired of one thing. You basically start to fall asleep or fall asleep. But Chinese is not as effective as English.