Why your phone doesn’t make for the best alarm clock
One Small Thing is a new series to help you take a simple step toward a healthy, impactful goal. “Keeping the phone in another room will likely decrease the opportunity for distraction from sleep, and also decrease opportunity for sleep procrastination,” said Dr. Shalini Paruthi, sleep medicine attending physician at John J. Cochran Veterans Hospital in St. Louis and adjunct professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine. “Ideally, a person has gotten enough sleep that by the time the alarm rings, they are well rested and actually ready to get up,” Paruthi said. “When you didn’t get enough sleep or didn’t get good quality sleep, the likelihood that an extra 5 to 10 minutes of sleep could make a meaningful impact is pretty low,” Dr. Joseph Dzierzewski, senior vice president of research and scientific affairs at the National Sleep Foundation, said via email. “Having a phone at the bedside makes it really easy to roll over and start scrolling.” The bright light and content on your phone might make you more alert instead of drowsy, and screens can also lead to procrastinating about sleep and getting less than you originally intended, Paruthi said.
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