It’s late, but you’re not sure quite how late. It’s finally quiet, and you’re giving full rein to a temptation that you’ve been suppressing all day: to check all those pictures in your Instagram feed, surf through those Facebook albums and click on those links from Twitter. You’re exhausted, but somehow you’re not too tired for this.
By the time you check your clock it’s waay later than you realized. You’ll wake up tired tomorrow, better get to sleep right away. You quickly jump into bed, only when you finally put your head down on the pillow, you find you can’t sleep at all. Physically you’re out of gas, but your mind is still whirring away in high gear.
Does any of this sound familiar? It’s just possible that technology is disturbing your sleep patterns. Earlier this year scientists from Harvard Medical School suggested that the light of screens is interfering with our innate sense of night and day. Blue light, particularly prevalent in the kind of low voltage LEDs which are used in tablet, phone and laptop screens prevents the body from delivering the surge of melatonin which tells us the body its time to pack it all in for the night. And if we don’t feel tiredness, sleep isn’t going to arrive on time either.
By the time you check your clock it’s waay later than you realized. You’ll wake up tired tomorrow, better get to sleep right away. You quickly jump into bed, only when you finally put your head down on the pillow, you find you can’t sleep at all. Physically you’re out of gas, but your mind is still whirring away in high gear.
Does any of this sound familiar? It’s just possible that technology is disturbing your sleep patterns. Earlier this year scientists from Harvard Medical School suggested that the light of screens is interfering with our innate sense of night and day. Blue light, particularly prevalent in the kind of low voltage LEDs which are used in tablet, phone and laptop screens prevents the body from delivering the surge of melatonin which tells us the body its time to pack it all in for the night. And if we don’t feel tiredness, sleep isn’t going to arrive on time either.
Help is at hand. We’ve put together a few tips that will help you avoid that tech-related insomnia.
Sweet dreams, Headspacers.