When it starts to rain, many phenomena will appear in a chain reaction and affect the human body.
The rainy season has arrived. These last days of May and beginning of June are overcast and dull by the rains. When the rainy season comes, there is a rather strange phenomenon that people do not notice, that is the rain makes you always feel sleepy even though you have completely slept during the night.
While there is currently no formal study linking rain and fatigue, some other evidence suggests that gray weather makes all of our senses a bit dull. We send out the wrong signal. From there, people have short and deep sleep. This will make us feel tired, exhausted and very difficult to wake up.
Gray weather will cause all of our senses to send out confusing signals.
Sunlight causes the body to stop producing the hormone melatonin. This hormone is the factor that stimulates the feeling of sleepiness that comes to us every night. When it rains and the sky is overcast, this natural sunlight-powered alarm clock will be suppressed. Melatonin will continue to be secreted, making the feeling of drowsiness persist.
Another quite mysterious factor that contributes to making people sleepy when it rains, is the smell of rainwater . We cannot deny that the smell of rain is very soothing and makes you gradually fall asleep at any time.
Plants secrete essential oils during periods of drought to limit seed growth in harsh environmental conditions. When it rains, water washes this accumulated oil down to the ground and mixes with a chemical called geosemin, which is produced by bacteria in the soil. This mixture will have a very specific and mellow scent similar to the smell of musk.
In addition, after a storm has passed, you will also have the opportunity to smell ozone, a molecule composed of three oxygen atoms. It is created when lightning interacts with air, breaking down and recombining oxygen molecules from a two-atom combination to a three-atom combination. Some people think that the smell of ozone resembles the pungent smell of chlorine, reminiscent of the smooth feeling of freshly laundered bed sheets.
Sad rains always create a feeling of fatigue and sleepiness. (Image: gettyimage).
The sound of rain also makes listeners extremely comfortable and sleepy. The sound of rain falling on roofs, umbrellas or the ground is known as “mellow noise”. Soft noise brings together all kinds of sounds at frequencies that are audible to humans, ranging from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but mostly concentrated in the low frequencies. According to doctors, soothing noises can be used to calm nerves, cure insomnia and induce listeners to sleep more deeply.
Modern medicine has proven that, when our cerebral cortex receives stimulation in a monotonous, rhythmic way for a long time, it will cause a deep inhibition, reducing the excitement of the brain. parts of the body, causing inhibition from the cerebral cortex to diffuse to subcutaneous sites, causing drowsiness. This causes people to fall asleep.