Category: Sleep Hygiene

By Posted on Posted in Falling Asleep, Sleep Hygiene, Sleep Obstacles

When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you to “put that book/magazine/video game away and turn off the light?” Do you now hear yourself telling your own kids – or partner – to “put that phone down and go to sleep?” Maybe you’ve been meaning to say it to yourself. I know I have! It’s well-known, at this point in the 21st century, that the blue light emitted by devices like your phone, tablet or even your TV are not best friends with your circadian rhythm. They play games with each other. Sometimes they bicker: 11:30 pm …

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You probably already suspect it. Maybe you know it without a doubt. Technology could be keeping you from sleeping well. We hear this all the time in the media. We know it’s not in our best interest to stream shows, surf the internet, check email, or scroll through social media before bed. Or worse yet, while lying in bed, expecting to roll over and fall right asleep. To put it like a sleep scientist would, it is not good sleep hygiene. It’s true. If you do those things, you may be hindering your ability to easily fall asleep and get …

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Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’ve read the advice about getting better sleep and taken it to heart. You try and do what you can to get yourself to bed at a decent time and get enough sleep. You don’t eat heavily or drink alcohol close to bedtime. You do your best not to consume a lot of caffeine past late afternoon. You don’t exercise right before bed. You turned on the blue light filter on your phone so when you check your emails or social media right before bed, the glow won’t trick your brain into staying awake. …

Wait…Blue Light Filters Don’t Help? Read more »

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When your alarm clock goes off in the morning, do you a. immediately turn it off and bounce right out of bed? b. hit “snooze” and get a few more minutes of sleep? c. hit “snooze” repeatedly until the last possible moment? d. throw your alarm clock or cell phone across the room and sleep another hour and a half? According to surveys conducted in the past several years, over half of us in the U.S. regularly hit the snooze button at least once. One survey done in 2014 even notes that we spend an average of 3.5 months of …

Your Snooze Alarm: Bane or Blessing? Read more »

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It’s February already? Hard to believe we’re a month into the new year. This is about the time when many New Year’s resolutions start going out the window. It’s a sad fact, but we make it tough on ourselves when we decide that January 1st is going to be the day we change our lives for the better. Eat better, lose weight, exercise more, make more money, drink less, read more, watch less TV, spend more time with the family, be more organized…the list goes on and on! But somehow, we keep doing it year after year. Decade after decade. …

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