Some people cannot sleep outside of their own homes, even if they are very sleepy, and cannot go to the toilet even if they are very bored. There may even be some among you who say, “If only I could get rid of this feature”. Then let’s discuss the scientific background of the issue.
Traveling from one place to another or sleeping at a friend’s house for the first time can be an ordeal for many of you. Experts call this the “first night effect”. In other words, the fact that you do not find the environment you enter for the first time unintentionally safe causes this situation. So to protect yourself, your brain half asleep half awake It forces you to keep a vigil that night.
In addition to this problem, when you add the problem of not being able to go to the toilet despite having pain in your stomach, your psychology can collapse. According to psychologist Nick Haslam, most people feel more comfortable going to the bathroom in their own home than using the sink anywhere else. safe feels. When you look at it, the whole issue seems to be that people cannot feel safe in places they do not know and do not know. So is it really so?
In fact, people tend to look for environments where they will always feel ‘more comfortable’ to go to the toilet.
Jack Gilbert, a professor at the University of Chicago, says that people want to feel this way because of a natural response to environmental conditions. So the desire to feel comfortable quite natural. As soon as most people enter through the door of their home, their body activates the change of glucose (sugar) balance, respiration and hormone movements with the effect of habituation to the home environment. That’s why sometimes you may suddenly have a toilet when you enter the house. even you “Did I hold my toilet all these hours while I was out?” You might be surprised to think.
Since a person is a toilet trained creature, he knows that when the need for a sink comes, he has to perform it according to certain rules. According to psychologist Nick Haslam, what keeps you holding on to this need in an unfamiliar environment is the past. from toilet training may be coming. If you are someone who holds your big toilet for a long time, this can make you experience intestinal and stomach pain. If you convince yourself that everyone has such a need and that it is natural, you can be more flexible about it.
Another issue is having a shy bowel (parcopresis) and a bladder (paruresis).
According to researches, it is stated that approximately 2.8-16.4% of the world population has shy bladder problem. This is particularly common in men. People with these problems have a high dosage of anxiety about using public restrooms. Those who suffer from these cannot even use the toilets of restaurants, shopping malls, schools, or simply friends’ homes. Individuals who experience severe symptoms sometimes, even in their own homes can’t go to the bathroom becomes.
This condition is considered a type of social anxiety disorder. In those who have this problem, such as intense heartbeat, excessive sweating, respiratory disorder, muscle tension, nausea or tremors. complications visible. For example, those who experience these symptoms milder can go to the toilet when no one is at home, but those who live more intensely may find it difficult to meet their needs even if they struggle for hours.
This situation restricts one’s social life considerably because the person neither to meet friends, neither to the cinema nor any public place can go. In a study, 316 people were interviewed about this issue and 72 participants stated that they had experienced at least one of these disorders.
The participants expressed that they take it personally and think that they are laughing at themselves when people laugh at each other in public toilets. Thus, as a result of the research, individuals who experience this situation fear of being negatively criticized lives are detected.
Now let’s look at the problem of not being able to sleep elsewhere…
In one study, researchers performed three different brain scans, including MRI, to watch people sleep in their first stay. As a result, it has been found that when people experience such situations, the tendency to go to deep sleep on the left side of their brain decreases. In addition, experts discovered that these people listen to every sound coming from outside because their brains are over-stimulated. In short, people do not feel comfortable in a place where they stay for the first time, as we mentioned at the beginning, he was in danger can’t sleep because they feel like
Researchers recommend that people who have a problem with this issue should spend time in that place a few times in advance and try to adapt, instead of worrying about going to a place for the first time. Individuals can bring an item from their own house to the other house where they will stay, for example, this is a pillow it could be. Maybe they can get around this problem a little bit.
Resources: Independent, The Conversation, Good House Keeping, Prevention, Greatist, NBC News, TIME, The New York Times, Everyday Health