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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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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A large part of this are going to be insomniacs who are using media because they can't sleep. Evidently that's a feedback loop, but it's not as unidirectional as the headline and abstract suggests.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yep, I try to sleep, and after maybe 20 minutes or longer I go look at my phone for a bit to get tired, or watch some video. That actually makes me fall asleep most of the time, so maybe screen use reduces insomnia and people are just self-medicating 🤔

[–] trillnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

key thing here is you tried to sleep first

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I've started to sometimes go straight to watching a video and actually fall asleep faster this way most of the time

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