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Re: Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

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Post by the_watcher »

eli wrote: post #35
stinos wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because in my opinion (solely based on intuition and vague memories of things read in scientific articles on the matter), as a solution for sleep problems, it's still inferior to just turning them off. I know he mentions books in the articles but put them away because they either were either too exciting or too boring. To me that sounds like not having tried hard enough. As I said: replacing such nightly habit with a…

I'm not sure I get why reading a book is so much worse than a reading on an iPad. You mean because of the backlit screen?

Blue light. It's the whole reason f.lux and blue light filters exist, and why the Kindle Paperwhite is such an amazing device: front-lit with no blue light.

Re: Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

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Post by 3rd3 »

"LPT: Have sleep-onset insomnia (difficulty falling asleep)? Stop thinking with words and think with images instead."

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1uy56a/lpt_have...

I’m not sure if there is any evidence backing this up. Trying this myself didn’t work too well because my eyes tend to seize a little bit when I try to 'think with images'.

Re: Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

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Post by pound »

What helped me was stopping drinking coffee. Even one cup in the morning. Two days of headache, two weeks of not being focused and suddenly I can actually fall asleep at 11pm.

Before that my brain was too alert up to ~1am.

Re: Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

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Post by picklestime »

mosselman wrote: post #39
picklestime wrote: post #12

For blocking blue light, instead of filtering the devices, just filter your eyes: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo... I've been wearing those for ~2 hours before sleeping and they work very well.

These probably work wonders on your sex life too.

heh. my fiancée jokingly refers to me as "nerd bono"

(she also has a pair and wears them)

Re: Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

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Post by tammer »

I've been a f.lux fanatic for a long time. Recently, though, I've been getting headaches that seem to be relieved by turning it off. I think it has something to do with getting a variety of color input rather than mostly red or mostly blue, but an expert I am not.
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