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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 19 2019, @08:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-blues-may-be-good-for-you dept.

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Not such a bright idea: why your phone's 'night mode' may be keeping you awake

"Night mode" is one of those features you may be aware of only because your phone keeps telling you about it. At some point while you are lying in bed at night sending texts, your screen may politely suggest you activate a function that shifts the colours of your screen from the colder to the warmer end of the spectrum. It is supposed to help you sleep better.

Findings in a study led by Dr Tim Brown and published in Current Biology suggest this is the very opposite of correct. The research, carried out on mice, appears to rubbish the notion that blue light disrupts sleep. All things being equal, warm yellow light is worse.

[...] According to the study, brightness levels are more important than colour when it comes to stimulating the body clock. However, when the light is equally dim, blue is more relaxing than yellow.

This makes basic sense: daylight is yellow, twilight is blue, and sunrise and sunset are pretty reliable ways to tell your body clock what time it is. Of course, at this point, we only know it works on mice – and mice don't have phones. "We think there is good reason to believe it's also true in humans," says Dr Brown.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by SomeGuy on Thursday December 19 2019, @10:07AM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday December 19 2019, @10:07AM (#934141)

    "[...] According to the study, brightness levels are more important than colour when it comes to stimulating the body clock. However, when the light is equally dim, blue is more relaxing than yellow."
    Blue is only more relaxing if you are a mouse or a raging consumertard. It is eye raping hypnotic and that is why it pisses of people with a brain. Consumertards love these.

    All these idiots really found was that having a yellow headlight blaring in your face will keep you awake as much as a blue tinted headlight blaring in your face. Big surprise.

    "At some point while you are lying in bed at night sending texts, "
    Which is the real problem. Consumertards just need to put away their fucking "phone" and deal with messages and communicating later. Oh, but that would be too much like that "old" e-mail thing.

    "The research, carried out on mice, "
    At the end of the rubbish study, the mice were all addicted to sexting and posting pictures of their dicks.

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