Classic conceived of love as a real disease, with corresponding causes, symptoms and treatment. It is believed that among the common symptoms of this syndrome were pallor, fever, loss of appetite, agitation y. .. Yes, insomnia. This whole concept is expressed and documented, of course, literary texts, but it was not only a literary convention, but this conviction in daily life and medical science (and I mentioned this in this article ).
Today modern medicine (and especially the specialty of neurology) has been explained on a more scientific these symptoms of love. It seems the love affair raises the secretion and release in the brain of endogenous drugs, such as phenylethylamine or dopamine, which have physiological effects in the body of the lover. Specifically, the PEA is similar in effect to amphetamine, and as such is responsible for symptoms of love such as tachycardia and sweating, loss of appetite and (what concerns us here) insomnia.
Speaking of insomnia
love, I recently finished reading the book The hundred blows of the young Italian woman Melissa P. ( the novel the film is being currently ). Here the author recounts his experiences erotic-sentimental. A young man in love with her singing a serenade ( is, apparently, a traditional Sicilian song ). Here is the text:
My votu and my rivotu suspirannu,This song (slightly different version) you can see and hear in this video:
passu li notti 'senza nteri sonnu,
e li tò biddizzi vaju cuntimplannu,
tipenzu of fine to jornu notti. Pi
non pozzu n'ura ripusari aunt, non havi chiu paci
st'afflittu cori. Lu
vo quannu Sapirie t'aju to lassari? Quannu
finisci e la vita mia mori.
round and round I sighed,
step up all night, staring at your beauty
,
think of you in the overnight.
For you I can not stand even a moment, I have no
serenity, so sad that the heart is.
Want to know when you leave?:
When my life is over and die.