Why snoring occurs in sleep?

Snoring is one of those things that can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. It doesn’t matter if you are young, old, a man or a woman – snoring can still find its way into your life. Although it may seem like nothing more than an annoying sound to the people around us, there’s actually a reason why snoring occurs. In this article, we will delve deep into the reasons behind snoring (brace yourself) and see what makes our noses tickle during our sleep.

The Sound of Silence

Have you ever been woken up by someone’s loud snores? If yes then congratulations! Your brain didn’t fail to recognize the sound of another human being breathing awkwardly as they slept beside you (yayyyy!). But let’s understand why these sounds exist in the first place.

Understanding What Happens When We Sleep

Sleep is not just an activity where your body simply shuts off – there’s lots going on inside too! Let’s talk about rapid eye movement (REM) for starters which occurs every 90 minutes in sleep cycle (more on cycles later). During REM stage;

  • Our brains become very active
  • Our muscles relax; sometimes so much so that even our lower jaw falls loose.

During this time, we start seeing dreams and process all sort of information including emotions making sense out their daily lives.

Now here comes interesting part:

Since when we’re asleep our tongue relaxes backward leading air flow interruption while breathing results ultimately causing vibration from throat tissues whether it be uvula or soft palate resulting is that awful snore noise!

All About Breathing Cycles

Breathing cycles consist of inhaling oxygen followed by exhaling carbon dioxide thus keeping us alive 24/7 (phew) As we know above mentioned rem stages’ muscles loosen-up setting path of vibration from tissues because due to relaxed tongue it creates blockage ultimately creating sound.

Characteristics of Snoring

Snoring isn’t just making an unnerving sound in sleep without reason, Certain characteristics can help us better understand snoring:

  • Normally occur when people’re sleeping lying on their back
  • Often much louder in men than women.
  • Vibrations rattle the uvula that little punching bad hanging above your mouth.
  • Create nasal sounds while inhaling and exhaling.

!!!FUN FACT:!!!

People who happen to be heavy drinkers or smokers, take anti-depressants or muscle relaxers have higher chances of producing cacophonic symphonies during their snooze time (isn’t language fun!?)

Other Factors That Result In Annoying Snores

Apart from smoking, drinking and medicine intake certain other factors are also prominent culprits for snore-related activities. Following are most common causes calculated by experts;

  1. Obesity
  2. Allergic reactions like hay fever
  3. Abnormally large adenoids or tonsils which contributes heavily towards blocked airways.
  4. Congestion due to dry atmospheric conditions.
  5. Genetics!

Diagnose Your Own Sleep Style And Positioning To Addressance Of Lousy Sound Pollution

With all that being said one cannot entirely fix snoring situation without analyzing unique problem parameters so self-diagnosis is required first off; pinpoint the position you feel comfortable in before bedtime routine like maybe on your stomach? Right side? Left Side?

Make some lifestyle changes such as avoiding alcoholic beverages before bed, changing bedding often (hygiene issues related), quit smoking if applicable (Smokers’ lung condition adverse but more info about this might end up sounding offensive) sigh humans…).

That’s pretty much it folks that one could do at home but a doctor would suggest surgery options depending upon severity.

So next time you hear yourself breathing like Chewbacca in your sleep, just remember that you aren’t alone! Snoring can happen to anyone and is a natural side-effect of sleeping. Hopefully, this article has helped shed some light on why snoring occurs and how you can take steps to prevent it.

Don’t hesitate to consult expert for sound advice because they know exactly what kinds of instruments or treatment one would be requiring based upon biology (wink).

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