A study of more than 45,000 Norwegian university students has shown that using screens in bed is strongly associated with insomnia symptoms and lower sleep duration. Researchers suspect that this is because screen time displaces sleep by taking up time when people would otherwise be resting. However, using social media was not found to be more harmful than other forms of screen use.

  • bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Tell this to my fiancee, who scrolls reels for an hour before falling asleep in minutes every night.

    Meanwhile, if I have 0.001mg too much caffeine I’m not sleeping til Friday