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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the wear-dark-glasses dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday August 07 2015, @12:22AM

    by Geotti (1146) on Friday August 07 2015, @12:22AM (#219336) Journal

    I use f.lux on my iDevices and just installed it on my MBP. I feel much less eye-strain when using my devices at nighttime (which I do often) now.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 07 2015, @12:26AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday August 07 2015, @12:26AM (#219340) Journal

    I use a screen filter app on the phone that simply adds a % multiplier to brightness (potentially allowing you to put it too low and essentially... brick the phone?). Good to use since the lowest amount of brightness my phone gives off is more than what I need in a dark room and strains the eyes.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @05:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @05:17PM (#219634)

      I have a screen filter that I put on my tablet as well. I believe that if you turn off the phone/tablet and turn it back on the screen filter would not start up with the device and so then you can have your screen reset(?). Then I assume you can go into the screen filter app settings and clear the cache to reset the default position?