Feeling bored can actually make you sleepy, how come?

What do you do when you feel bored? Most people have the same opinion, that when they are bored, they often feel sleepy. Whereas previously there was no sleepiness. It turns out that why you feel sleepy when you feel bored can be explained scientifically. Here comes the reason why you will feel like sleeping when you are bored.

Feeling bored to sleep? It turns out that this is the reason

In a day, maybe you can feel bored many times, when waiting for someone or even when listening to presentations and during meetings at the office. Try to remember again, when that happened, how did you feel? Do you suddenly feel sleepy? Yes, this is very natural. Apparently, this condition can be explained scientifically.

So, according to research from the land of Sakura, drowsiness when you feel bored occurs due to signals in your brain. This fact was revealed when the researchers conducted experiments on mice. In the study, they examined the neural activity and behavior of these mice. Then, at the end of the study it is known that the feeling of boredom then stimulates the brain to make you more sleepy.

The brain automatically increases sleepiness when you are bored

Yes, you could say that your brain is the cause of this sudden drowsiness. In the study, published in Nature Communications, there is a part of the brain known as the nucleus akumbens.

The nucleus akumbens is a part of the brain that has various roles, such as as a place to receive pleasant information in the brain and regulate the amount of the hormone adenosine in the body. The hormone adenosine is a hormone that stimulates you to become sleepy and eventually fall asleep, therefore this hormone is often called the sleep hormone.

Now, when you feel boredom because you don't have any interesting activities you are doing at that time, it will have an impact on the nucleus akumbens. That part of the brain doesn't receive pleasurable information or stimuli - so you get bored - which in turn makes adenosine levels rise.

When adenosine levels rise and a lot in the body, then soon, your eyes will feel sore and sleepy. This is what makes you sleepy when you feel bored.

Keep yawning because you are sleepy, even though you are in a meeting. What to do?

If you are bored in the middle of a meeting, then without you knowing it, the drowsiness will come and keep you yawning. In fact, you are in an important activity. So, to fix this, you can do the following:

• Take a deep breath. This allows oxygen to enter properly into the body. Maybe, at that time your brain is deprived of air due to boredom.
• Take time to drink cold drinks. If you are allowed to drink, try drinking cold water to make your brain cool down so you don't keep yawning.