• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    22 hours ago

    I believe what science is saying. I’m just not going to follow it. If I try to sleep without reading something my brain will start ruminating on things and then I’m definitely not getting to sleep. All my reading materials are on a screen.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      15 hours ago

      I tried buying more physical books. I have a small stack of it, but I can’t motivate myself to actually keep reading them. And there’s always the danger that I find a page turner that’ll keep me reading the entire night …

    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      It’s not a settled issue. There are research papers that show evidence that blue light affects sleep, which is not the same thing as blue light makes your sleep worse.

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      21 hours ago

      I just listen to podcasts at a volume low enough that I have to try to listen, tires my brain out

    • tumblechinchilla@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      For me i trained my mind to quiet when i hear wreck of the edmund fitzgerald. I also use sleep talk down videos, audio only, to distract my brain long enough for sleep to strangle it into submission to avoid yhe darkness.