General / Off-Topic Do electronic screens affect your sleep?
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I don't think I have problems, but I am old.
I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime
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My Droid tablet using Android 7 has a blue screen filter option from the drop down options.
makes the screen an orange colour. its supposed to help with sleeping.
Does it help... nope.
Switching off before bed... lowering the lights... not looking at mobile devices, helps. a little.
however ive always been an insomniac.. working a 9-5 job is always hard and my waking window will always slip with me being awake later and later and later.
24 hours isnt enough..
Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep–wake_disorder
makes the screen an orange colour. its supposed to help with sleeping.
Does it help... nope.
Switching off before bed... lowering the lights... not looking at mobile devices, helps. a little.
however ive always been an insomniac.. working a 9-5 job is always hard and my waking window will always slip with me being awake later and later and later.
24 hours isnt enough..
Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep–wake_disorder
I fall asleep always in the 5-10 minutes after having entered in the bed.
But I do a lot of sport during the day.
But I do a lot of sport during the day.
I envy you. If i could sleep like i choose to eat or sit on the throne, my life would be much more efficient.
Dragging my tired behind around all day long is a living hell.
Coffee is the greatest discovery ever made by man.. (except for the illegal alternative)
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Yes, it does. I take about 1-2 hpurs to fall asleep.
I have already had difficult nights. I recognize that it is painful.
But since years that I get tired the day by diverse activities, I already fall asleep in front of the TV or the computer before going to bed.
Often in the afternoon after walking sportily 10 kilometers, if I sit in the garden, I fall asleep on the chair like a little old man of 90 years.
I wonder how I did not fall on the ground yet.
I wonder how I did not fall on the ground yet.
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I'm your typical owl person, but I found out that turning that "night mode" which does this reddish picture thingy helps a bit.
That said, when I was young I often read books with a flashlight after my parents turned off the lights and ordered me to sleep, so... every generation has it's own "sleep deprivation devices"
That said, when I was young I often read books with a flashlight after my parents turned off the lights and ordered me to sleep, so... every generation has it's own "sleep deprivation devices"
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I tend to like it dark, but haven't noticed anything in particular about blue light.
What really interrupts my sleep is how loud the title screens are when a new episode starts on Netflix!
I guess it gets me into bed, lol...
(If there is a Windows solution to that I'm all ears btw!)
Hahaha, that is a very peaceful mental image.
My you nod off like that often.
What really interrupts my sleep is how loud the title screens are when a new episode starts on Netflix!
I guess it gets me into bed, lol...
(If there is a Windows solution to that I'm all ears btw!)
Often in the afternoon after walking sportily 10 kilometers, if I sit in the garden, I fall asleep on the chair like a little old man of 90 years.
I wonder how I did not fall on the ground yet.
Hahaha, that is a very peaceful mental image.
My you nod off like that often.
I found no single factor to have a significant impact on my sleep patterns, be it staring at assorted monitors, general artificial light, reading, sports, lack thereof, whatever. What had an impact was a combination of general sleep hygiene including a semi-ritualised wind-down and stress management (a.k.a. "giving fewer damns").
That's basically what the study found.
If I do heavy exercise, I can fall asleep like Patrick_68000.
Even while watching TV - the very same screen in question. Not sure if the blue light thing is really significant, but Win 10 turns my monitor orange by choice anyway.
I haven't noticed any difference falling asleep after using the computer or not using it.
Like Patrick above, I'm generally asleep within a few minutes of my head hitting the pillow. If it takes me 10 minutes to fall asleep, I consider it insomnia.
I have a laptop in the bathroom that's always on for when I wake up needing to visit. If I wake the monitor up, I still fall right back to sleep when I get back in bed.
Like Patrick above, I'm generally asleep within a few minutes of my head hitting the pillow. If it takes me 10 minutes to fall asleep, I consider it insomnia.
I have a laptop in the bathroom that's always on for when I wake up needing to visit. If I wake the monitor up, I still fall right back to sleep when I get back in bed.
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Yup, snore. Dang I blinked out for a second there.... Wha?
Comatose? Lucky man.
What annoys me mostly is the current fashion to have glaring bright LED's on pretty much everything, where something simple as a wifi-extender can light up a room at night like a disco.
I think this is probably the worse thing. Having screens around before you go to sleep is maybe one thing. Blinky blue lights while you sleep, I think another and probably makes sleep much lighter. (Blue especially, being shorter wavelength than red which is a lower and therefore even possibly soothing energy).
What I do know is, given the devastating effect it has on my FM radio, I refuse to sleep with mobile phone, anywhere near my bonce.
I have mine calibrated and at a fairly cool 6500K white point, however it's also set to around 120cd which is dim compared to what most entertainment displays love to run at these days. That encourages matching room lighting.