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One hour’s screen use after going to bed increases your risk of insomnia by 59%, scientists find. (www.frontiersin.org)

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A study of more than 45,000 Norwegian university students has shown that using screens in bed is strongly associated with insomnia symptoms and lower sleep duration. Researchers suspect that this is because screen time displaces sleep by taking up time when people would otherwise be resting. However, using social media was not found to be more harmful than other forms of screen use.

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hrm.

It doesn't look like they actually differentiated or isolated... basically listening to something like a history podcast or relaxation, ambient audio track, with no actual visual component... unless I'm missing something.

I very often have trouble getting to fall asleep without... some kind of calm, soothing audio.

With something like that, I'm usually out cold within 15 minutes.

Without it, I can stay awake for hours past the time I actually want to go to sleep.

I'll just play it over speakers at a low volume, or use earbuds.