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Sleep & cell phones
With more & more people sleeping with their cell phones, how does the interruptions from vibrations or sound notifications effect ones very important REM cycle?
71 months ago
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It is vitally important to put the cell phone away, out of reach, and definitely out of ear shot. The brain must be allowed "free reign". One the the things I teach is counting. Counting breaths or toe bends or simply counting is non stimulatory. A beep from the cell phone is definitely stimulatory.
Other sleep aids are music from the past. Ideally, when you hear, again, music from Sound of Music, your body tends to replicate the happy times when you heard that years ago.
An inexpensive water fall, having a boring TV channel playing, all can be non-stimulatory and takes the brain away from dwelling of stimulatory problems and lets you sleep.
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71 months ago
I'm pretty sure interruptions in circadian rhythms will at some point begin to show up as mental or physical health deficits. It doesn't matter what time of day or night it is, some people are "trained" to answer cell phone calls and texts. Some people consider it rude to not respond to their electronic leash.
No one can reach a REM level of sleep if they're interrupted in the 2nd and 3rd stages of sleep, which means people are waking up tired. Tired people are more likely to be susceptible to mental and physical health deficits. ... or are likely to encounter difficulties related to being tired, which goes back to deficits experienced. There's a generation of young people who think this living like this is normal. They don't know a world that didn't revolve around electronic technology.
71 months ago
