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There are many medications for insomnia; problem is, there seems to be no universal prescription for people suffering this sickness. Patients often rely on having sleeping pills as starter medication. While they might do good and may induce some good snooze, continued use of them may lead to undesirable side effects like depression, nausea, and overdose.

One of the reasons why there is no general prescription given is that insomnia affects people differently. People who have slept for only a few hours every day may not bear any symptoms at all, while those who have slept for twelve hours might be troubled by lack of sleep. The effects of sleep deprivation vary from one person to another, creating a problem of diagnosis and prescription on the part of the doctors.

But the main reason for the absence of general prescription to the sickness is that experts themselves do not agree among each other on the exact amount of sleep. Experts agree that insomnia (problem of getting to sleep, remaining in sleep, or both) can be treated. But their agreement seems to end there.

Some experts believe that quantity, or the number of hours for bedtime, matters most. They think that when we have about eight to ten hours of sleep everyday, we will not suffer fatigue and lack of concentration. They think that the circadian rhythm, the natural body clock inside us, must not be tampered. We can only do this if we have sufficient amount of sleep every night.

                                                          

Some however beg to disagree. They say that quality, rather than quantity, makes the difference between insomniac and normal. A study conducted at the turn of the century has found out that more than half of Japanese workers are deprived of sleep. Yet, these same people do not show signs of strain and stress from too much waking hours.

The surprising results of the study have concluded that how deep is the sleep is more important than how long one spends in sleeping. Feelings of refreshed and reinvigorated, as well as heightened sense of wakefulness the next morning, are not strange to people with three or fours hours of sleep each night.

Still, other sleep experts believe that a compromise of the two is the most ideal sleeping pattern. They recommend people to have more chances in sleeping. This suggestion stems from the belief that the more one spends time for sleeping, the more chances they have in going to a really deep sleep. Or they recommend that sleeping room must be conducive for snoozing.

But whatever side of the debate people may find themselves in, only one thing remains unchanged – insomnia problem should be not be taken lightly.

 

Sleep is essential for mental and physical restoration. It is a cycle with two separate states: rapid eye movement (REM), the stage in which most dreaming occurs; and non-REM (NREM). Four stages of sleep take place during NREM: stage I, when the person passes from relaxed wakefulness; stage II, an early stage of light sleep; stages III and IV, which are increasing degrees of deep sleep. Most stage IV sleep (also called delta sleep), occurs in the first several hours of sleep. A period of REM sleep normally follows a period of NREM sleep.

It is commonly believed that everybody should get at least eight hours

of sleep a day. But a lot of people try to get by on less, thinking that sleeping is just a waste of their time. Even some experts claim that it is the quality of sleep that counts rather than the quantity, and that we could live healthy lives with only three or four hours of good sleep. To them, "good sleep" is characterized by REM (Rapid-Eye Movement). It is during this phase of sleep that we dream.