"Put your phone down one hour before bed”, “use blue light blocking glasses”, “banish screens from the bedroom entirely!” If you’ve tried to improve your sleep by changing your pre-bed phone use habits, you’ve probably heard it all. But what if you’ve been focusing on the wrong thing? Read more at https://lnkd.in/eDHbM3Jp
We looked at 1,700 nights of phone use before sleep. News content reduced REM by about 2%. That’s more than an hour of REM lost each week. Your body is trying to rest while your mind is still processing the world. High-attention content, no matter what it was, cut total sleep time.