Insomnia statistics are helpful in showing us what the trends of this sleeping affection are, if more or less of us suffer from it compared to last year’s period. A thing about this disease is the fact that more than 30% of insomniacs had a relative that had problems with insomnia at home, meaning that this illness might have been caused by some bad genes that are in the family. Approximately nine out of ten people that are depressed, suffer from insomnia, which means that in most cases, depression triggers insomnia. If, by any chance, you have problems with insomnia, then it is very likely that you are sleeping a maximum of six hours daily, according to a study about it.

The conclusion is that, we are now aware that sleeping should be among our powerful allies if we realize how to respect it and take good care of it the right way and not dis considering it. And we also must be thankful if we have no sleeping problems, because as the statistics for insomnia tells us, there are many people with this issue. Having slept for 8 hours will make someone feel relaxed and be set for the good parts and downs of today. But should you want just 4 hours of good sleep and after this you are feeling rested, this is ok as long as you are feeling great. The most imperative thing when you need to close your eyes is to just clear the mind and stop thinking of nothing else so that you can fall asleep.

Some of you are thinking that insomnia is a new word, portraying a sort of new problem that we have, but this is not the correct answer. Like we’ve discussed earlier, the history of insomnia starts officially, since 1623, but off records, no one knows for sure since when people had for the first time nights when they were not able to sleep. Insomnia could be a very, very old problem of humankind, and not a new one, as some people say. It could be that even our great-great-etc ancestors had this issue because they were forced to get a shelter, find food and look for predators, and this might interrup their sleep.

But do not think that insomnia has only been active in the life of normal people, because because is not true. There are lots of people, which are very known people, people in our history, that that had trouble sleeping. You will actually be quite amazed by all the names that are present on the list of famous people that suffered from insomnia. The list is big but we’ll only remind some of the famous people that fought with insomnia.

Among the people that are known to have suffered from sleeping disorders, are people like Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin etc. Winston Churchill couldn’t sleep if he was in a room that had only one bed, and he always had to have two beds in his room, so if he couldn’t sleep in one of them, then he would just sleep in the next bed. Isaac Newton was not able to sleep because he suffered from depression which stopped him from falling asleep easily. Benjamin Franklin required sheets that had low temperature to sleep on, and if not he just couldn’t sleep at all.

In the end, insomnia exists for some time in the lives of common people and also famous ones. No one knows exactly when this disorder appeared exactly, but we know this for sure: insomnia exists from the early stages of mankind and it does not seem that we can put an end to it too soon. So, there’s no truth beneath common beliefs that state that insomnia is a modern problem for all people, because it has been active for at least 400 years.