Insomnia in Popular
Culture
Overview of Insomnia in Popular Culture
Insomnia has been a featured disorder from many aspects such
as books and movies. Two cult classics one is a book titled
Insomnia written by horror novelist Stephen King and the other
is the Robert DeNiro film from 1976 Taxi Driver.
Not only that, there have been about 28 songs written and
recorded about insomnia and among the artists who recorded
a song were Vanessa Carlton, Green Day, Radiohead, and Tenacious
D. The most popular film based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel
became a hit about 6 years ago was Fight Club with Edward
Norton and Brad Pitt and the lead character was a manic insomniac.
This seems to be the most common type sleeping disorder to
the point that movies and songs were made about this problem.
Unfortunately, most of the people who suffer from this issue
do not see it problematic. It's not healthy to go without
sleep because it can reduce your immune system making you
prone to catching things like the flu and colds. Insufficient
rest can cause severe disorientation due to the fact that
your body wasn't given an opportunity to rest and recuperate.
This is what drove the designer coffee movement up like the
sprawl of coffee shops from Starbucks, Gloria Jeans, Seattle's
Best, and Caribou Coffee since you had a lot of late nighters
made up of mainly people working in hospitals and college
students who had to pull late nighters and cram sessions and
needed to stay awake so when coffee wasn't working they bought
this over the counter pill called Vivarin, which has the effects
of about 2 cups of coffee when you take the prescribed dosage.
It's generally not a good idea to take Vivarin since it can
disturb your body's ability to sleep and rest normally. Then,
you will also find more college students becoming sick a lot
since they're forcing their bodies to do things that aren’t
normal such as staying up super late and not getting at least
6 hours of sleep. Rest will provide your body's digestive
system to rest which makes up about 70% of your immune system
and therefore you need to get enough sleep or even short naps
also work as a re-energizer to give you a burst of energy
which works much better than coffee or caffeine pills.
However, one can become resistant since a lot of coffee drinkers
tend to get very tired after a certain point and that’s
because you build up a resistance after having a few cups
of coffee or cans of Coke so meaning it won't keep you awake
it will speed up the rate of how fast you'll start to feel
sleepy.
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