The dawn belongs to the lovers, the dreamers and the readers
Has it ever happened to you that when it’s dawn you have a clearer view of things? This magical line between day and night is not just the territory of people who have insomnia or sleepwalkers. In fact, these are hours when our brain works efficiently because its biochemistry is aided by mechanisms that are very different from those that govern us throughout the day. It is when we feel free from external stimuli to connect with much more intimate and creative spaces.
“Dawn chapters are derived from your dawn draft.”
Gonzalo Santoja
Many people are busy during the day and go to bed tired, but instead of sleeping, they feel their minds activate and tune in. It is a time when reading is better, because it becomes more vivid, the same goes for creativity or even love. Because at dawn the city is turned off and the emotions are illuminated more intensely.
Current times: inhibitors of creativity and happiness
We know that humans govern their biological cycles through circadian rhythm. We are synchronized by this fascinating little structure called the pineal gland which, when stimulated by light or inhibited by darkness, activates the production of melatonin to orchestrate our sleep-wake cycles. Its involvement in entering and remaining in these states is well known, however it also opens the door to other equally interesting processes, but less well known than sleep-wake.
Paul Kelly, a neuroscientist and researcher at the Institute of Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University, explains that society has designed a professional and educational world with little respect for circadian rhythms. According to him, all the effects of a busy life are making “a tired society”. Getting to work or school early and spending long professional days leaving at dawn and returning home at night is devastating in every way.
The accumulated fatigue and stress of long and unfair hours of work or study completely reduce the potential of our own brain. Little by little, we become abstracted in an emotional utopia until we fall into a sad lethargy of unhappiness.
Dawn, the home of the dreamers
“The night is half of life, and the better half”
Goethe
They say that the dawn is the home of dreamers, that moment when the stars whisper to each other and where some have the gift of being able to hear them. Living as we are in these titanic times, it is common that at the end of the week the brain asks us for our own corner, a few more hours to free ourselves.
The cerebral cortex is the area where a series of zones responsible for tasks such as attention, planning, working memory or rewards are concentrated. Both night and dawn are moments of subtle satisfaction for a brain that wants to focus on other areas. This is when the thresholds of imagination, emotion, introspection or reflection are opened.
It’s time for another kind of energy
You go to bed with a problem in mind and suddenly when the sun rises the answers and solutions begin to arrive without stopping. Inspiration blossoms, emotions tune in, our own ability to feel and connect ideas or visualize images intensifies even more.
Don’t think it’s magic or some supernatural act. It is the engine of neurochemistry that sees the night as the perfect moment to focus all its energy and resources on the brain itself. The mind focuses and thoughts flow at a different pace, there is a greater connection and the person feels more pleasure with certain activities that, during the day, are not always possible.
It becomes evident that our schedules prevent us from enjoying important moments for our development because we are often tired. However, it is never too late to delight in that subtle and favorable memory offered by the nights and the dawns, moments in which only the moon or the shy sun are witnesses of our pleasures: dreaming, reading or loving.
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