On Saturday night, I watched an episode of the Culinary Class Wars again with my husband.
Unlike the K-foodie Meets J-foodie or the Solitary Gourmet which run for about 20 minutes, the Culinary Class Wars takes up more of my time as it runs for more than 1 hour.
And another thing about this show is that…
it interferes with my deep sleep.
Just like last time, I had rather light sleep after watching this show before going to bed. Usually, I don’t wake up during the night and have very deep sleep, but my sleep becomes light as a feather after watching this show.
While our usual habit of reading books for 1 or 2 hours before going to bed can be a factor, the characteristics of this show seem to be another.
Unlike the K-foodie Meets J-foodie or the Solitary Gourmet, the Culinary Class Wars is a survival competition show and its filming style has a lot of anticipation and surprise factors, which stimulate dopamine.
Going to bed right after watching an exciting show seems to prevent me from having a relaxed state of mind and interfere with the deep sleep that I usually have.
One more strange thing is that this kind of dopamine-enhancing show shuts down my Japanese-learning ears.
When I watch shows in Japanese, I usually keep an ear out for the words and phrases very consciously, yet while watching the Culinary Class Wars, I kind of lose that sense.
Although the Japanese conversations I hear are all accumulated in my unconscious brain, they just flow away at a conscious level.
Then, is this show really suitable for my Japanese learning?
Well, I need to watch some more and figure that out.
(And I really should not watch it right before going to bed.)