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Experts have spoken, studies have been conducted, the results are in: screen time at night is bad for our sleep. The blue wavelengths of light from LED screens like those in our phones, laptops and tablets mess with our circadian rhythm by suppressing the body's release of melatonin, the hormone our body secretes as it gets dark in order to calm us and prepare us for sleep.
When we stare at these blue-lit screens at night time, our bodies don't release the needed amount of melatonin, but release cortisol -- the stress hormone -- instead, which keeps us awake. Neurologists who conducted studies on people who were exposed to blue-heavy lights before bedtime found that those people took far longer to fall asleep than those who were exposed to warmer light or light more evenly distributed across the color spectrum.
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[An] app [f.lux] for your desktop or laptop computer adjusts the color temperature of your monitor throughout the day to best mimic what type of light your eyes should be exposed to at those times. During daylight hours, the light is more blue-toned and similar to the bright daylight you would be exposed to outside, but as day turns to night, the monitor slowly goes warmer to match the indoor lights around you.
The article also mentions two other apps, Oyster and Twilight. Have any Soylentils used apps like these?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:36PM
I installed f.lux, and I could see the effect on the screen, slightly redder, but I couldn't see that it helped.
What did help was just turning down screen brightness at night.
On the other hand Melatonin tablets are dirt cheep. Dissolved Sub-lingually before bed they work wonders.
Best solution: Stop working so late. Life is too short.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Tramii on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:49PM
Best solution: Stop working so late. Life is too short.
Working? I thought the problem was that people couldn't turn off Facebook/Twitter/Angry Birds 2!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 07 2015, @12:22AM
You can adjust the settings to make the effect even deeper, although that makes stuff harder to read obviously.
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