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This seems incredibly counter to good sleep hygine. There's extensive evidence that even relatively low levels of light harm sleep quality; blue light from whit
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
This seems incredibly counter to good sleep hygine. There's extensive evidence that even relatively low levels of light harm sleep quality; blue light from white LEDs is particularly disruptive to circadian rhythm, and if you're having trouble falling to sleep, this seems like an excellent way to just ramp up your anxiety?
One of the best things I did for sleep anxiety was to NOT have a bedroom clock at all, my phone goes face-down, I disabled my watch's auto-backlight functions, and I've tried very, very hard to not try and figure out the time once I'm "going to bed." Thankfully my e-reader also doesn't have a clock displayed unless you tap something, so if I wake up, I can read (with an orange book reading light) until I'm sleepy.
The only lights I have that are on once I'm in bed are red LED night-lights (finding them was surprisingly tough.)
Literally never has determining what time it is helped me get back to sleep.
- jstanley 3y agoWhat about when you wake up and it's still dark and you don't know whether it's worth trying to go back to sleep?
- Turing_Machine 3y agoExactly so. "Do I have time to get another hour or two of sleep, or is it time to get up and make coffee?"
- theglenn88_ 3y agoYou and parent comment don’t have kids xD
- nkrisc 3y agoThat’s what alarms are for. You go back to sleep and your alarm will wake you up. In my opinion it’s always worth trying to go back sleep if you’ve got an alarm. Speaking for myself, there’s nothing worse for falling back asleep than looking at the time. When I wake at night and it’s dark, it might be 11pm, 2am, or 5am. I don’t want to know what time it is. I go back to sleep and unless it happens to actually be within minutes of my alarm, I’ll fall back asleep and never know what time it was.
- ginko 3y agoI was thinking of building a touch-operated clock for that. Some sort of dongle with a single button that would vibrate the hour and quarter-hours like a church bell. You could keep it under your blanket so you wouldn't need to move all that much to check the time.
- 1023bytes 3y agoRed filter could probably help
- nirav72 3y agoCan be easily solved by adding some kind of motion sensor. Wave hand and the clock projects the time on the ceiling. Have a 10-15 second time out period to turn off the projection.
- mft_ 3y agoI recall reading about a bedside clock which offers a dim and subtle colour-shift at certain times; for example, it might glow red until 4am, amber from 4-6am, and green from 6am onwards. The idea was to offer you you the ability to roughly determine the time to aid decision-making (as another commenter wrote, 'is it worth trying to go back to sleep?') without the alertness and/or anxiety that interacting with a gadget that tells the exact time.
- 2024throwaway 3y ago> There's extensive evidence that even relatively low levels of light harm sleep quality; blue light from white LEDs is particularly disruptive to circadian rhythm Maybe not. https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Light-colour-is-less-important-for-the-internal-clock-than-originally-thought.html https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Light...
- itishappy 3y agoYeah, when I complained about sleep issues, projector clocks were one of the first thing my doctor mentioned. Right up there with screen time and food before bed. I was told no light, no clocks, phone on the other side of the room. Anecdotally, removing my brains ability to worry about how soon I need to wake up has been one of the most impactful sleep hacks I've found.
- elsewhen 3y agoWhat about including a red light filter?