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How To Use The Greatest Myth Of Sleep As Your Command Center To Fall Asleep In No Time?
Watching television, the sleep myth debunked
Indeed, you didn’t expect this one, did you?
Watching television is extremely bad for your sleep… I’m sure you’ve heard it many times. The thing is, television can keep you up very late. You can become addicted, and therefore, it hinders your consistent bedtime. The result will be when you need to wake up at a certain time, as most people will.
Television gets you out of a steady rhythm; therefore, it isn’t great. Besides that, the content of what you’re watching matters too; when you’re involved too intensely, or it stresses you out, it’ll interfere with your sleep.
Also, the stress on your eyes doesn’t induce falling asleep, and when you do fall asleep while watching television late, often you’ll wake up in the middle of the night from screen lights. Or noise.
This is what’s bad about watching television before sleep.
But what if you use the television to your advantage?
Then it’s perfectly possible to watch television before bed.
Before jumping three meters in the air, a few rules are attached to using television as a falling asleep aid.
