Technology Affecting Sleep

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In bedrooms today we have many gadgets, we have televisions, game counsels, tablets, and our phones. All of these thing affect how we sleep. Ninety-five percent of people use technology an hour before they go to bed (How technology affects sleep). Whether this is sending texts, emailing, playing games, or browsing through social media. In today 's society we find this as normal everyday routines. Studies show that we should abstain from using technology two hours before we are wanting to go to sleep (How Technology Affects Sleep). How does technology effect how we sleep? Our technology that we use daily gives off many colors of light. The color that is believed to disrupt our sleeping patterns is in particular the blue light. Blue light prevents the

Have you ever gotten lost in the Internet, swallowed by the constant updates on Twitter and Facebook for hours, when you only meant to be on for a few minutes? This is a constant battle in our society and technology changes and our use of it increases. It is becoming a bigger issue every day, and now it affects one of our basics psychological needs: sleep. Though I concede with Brooke Gladstone, author of “The Influencing Machines” that we can adapt to technology as it grows, I still insist that some issues that arise with technology are bigger than Gladstone portrays and we need to find solutions for some of the bigger problems that technology creates, especially when it disturbs a basic psychological need.

Neil Postman wrote, “The End of Education” which he compares technology to religion and how everyone thinks technology will be the answer to everything. In his comparison of religion to technology, he said,” important distinctions are made among the different meanings of “belief,” but at some point it becomes far from asinine to speak of the god of technology” (Postman 38). He is saying everyone is relying on technology to give them all the answers when in reality it could be making more problems. Like Postman said on page 41, I believe technology can alter and change sleeping patterns of the youth today. For example, I watch Netflix on my phone and sometimes and get so into the show I forget time it is, look at the time, and realize it is

According to Jean Twinges article, ”Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation? “ Smartphones are “cutting onto teens sleep less than 7 hours a night” She also says “fifty-seven percent more teens were sleep deprives.”

I think my mom kind of got tired of me asking, “Can I please have my phone back,” but she really didn’t make it known. Even taking away my electronic devices didn’t seem to help me sleep any better. I still had hard times falling asleep. My mom would sometimes come in my room and say, “You are still awake, you went to bed a whole hour ago.” I would always respond, “I just can’t go to sleep, I don’t know why.” This happened about every school night, so eventually she gave in. She knew that electronics was not the problem here, so I went from starting the year off going to sleep without my phone, to finishing the year with it. Sometimes it is just hard for anyone to go to sleep, but others believe this is only certain when your smart phone is involved. I think that where you sleep plays an important role. If you sleep on a hard mattress, or even a sleep sofa, sleeping becomes harder. “The bedroom environment can have a significant influence on sleep quality and quantity. Several variables combine to make up the sleep environment, including light, noise, and temperature. By being attuned to factors in your sleep environment that put you at ease, and eliminating those that may cause stress or distraction, you can set yourself up for the best possible sleep.” “In this book, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can

In the article Are We Addicted to Technology, author Ms. Kleinman claims that we may be into our devices to much and has taken too much of our everyday lives. For people who constantly go into their devices, “ then you got the classic pattern of someone who’s in a fatigue cycle” says Dr. Ramlakhan, meaning people are addicted to technology so much, they have extreme tiredness. Dr. Ramlakhan works at the privately run nightingale Hospital, and what she has noticed is, many of her patients are in front of the screen all the time, even when they try to sleep. Another quote by Dr. Ramlakhan is “they go to bed but can’t sleep, or fall asleep exhausted and wake up tired.” Even when people have to sleep, they don’t...but instead they just go into

The sleep deprivation is caused by the stress of busy and hectic lives rather than electronic devices or other distractions. Oftentimes, the stress is brought on by countless advanced classes or overcrowded schedules. According to Bruni, “Smartphones and tablets aggravate the problem, keeping kids connected and distracted long after lights out. But in communities where academic expectations run highest, the real culprit is panic: about acing the exam, burnishing the transcript, keeping up with high-achieving peers.” Unfortunately, many of these teens are getting far under the necessary amount of sleep each night. Many of these kids are getting around five or so hours per night. This is far under the recommended time and is not enough to be properly rested let alone complete advanced

Generation Z is addicted to social media because it is the first thing they worry when they wake up. They pick up their phones to see what people posted in the morning, the afternoon, and the evening. Dr. Helen Driver, a somnologist (with means the study of sleep), explains, “The explosion of social media and people staying on devices for longer – and taking them to bed with them – is a huge problem”. Social media has effected Generation Z’s by sleep because the light is from the electronics which interferes with sleep. Not only does social media affect the quality of sleep but, the quantity of sleep too. The next morning, they only got a few hours of sleep and they do not feel well both physically and mentally. If someone has issues with turning off their electronic devices in the evening, then they should dim the lights or and turn the power off.

Many do not believe that we have a technology problem in today’s society. But, ninety-five percent of people use technology an hour before they go to sleep (How Technology Affects Sleep). This is an alarming amount of people who use technology before they go to sleep. You do not have to be looking directly at the technology to trigger the pineal gland to stop releasing melatonin (Kim). Many also believe that lack of sleep due to technology does not affect how they do their daily jobs. Seventy-five percent of those over 30 that reported not getting enough sleep said that when they were tired that their sleepiness effected their daily work (Tarkan). For a school age kid ten hours of sleep is needed. Teenagers also need about nine to ten

This article is aimed at finding more information on digital media use before bedtime and its effects on sleep variables. The findings will help to further educate us on the relationship between media use and its effects on sleep variables and combined with information from other similar studies will hopefully shed some more light on the topic. Another aim of the study is to design a better experimental method so that University students are sleeping and using digital media in a real-world environment. This allows the information gathered to be considered more useful. Many of the other studies put students in sleep laboratories and this does not reflect the real world digital media use and can sometimes effect sleep patterns.

With the onset of new digital devices and entertainment systems, our nighttime activities have drastically changed, leading to some significant changes in our lifestyle. Humans used to have a two part biological sleep process that has been disrupted by one of the first technologies mankind has created: fire (Hegarty). By having artificial light, it was no longer necessary for humans to go to sleep according to their biological set up (Kresser). Afterwards, with the coming of the industrial age, new technologies were invented that emitted light during nighttime activites, such as lamps and television (Mains, Donahue, Tsai); and the industrial era made it imperative for workers to stay up past their sleeping hours (Griffin). This led to the gradual

In order to understand how our cell phones can potentially disrupt sleep patterns and interfere with our sleep quality, it is important to get a better understanding about how sleep works. Sleep follows a specific template throughout the night, in which the body alternates between 2 stages - the rapid eye movement (REM) stage and the non-rapid eye movement (NREM) stage. Our bodies are in NREM sleep 75% of the night, and REM sleep 25% of the night. As we begin to fall asleep, we first enter NREM sleep, which comprises 4 stages. During this time, our brain and muscle activity progressively slows down, and significantly reduces, especially as we enter Stage 3 and 4 of NREM. After NREM sleep, the body changes gear as it enters into REM sleep. This

Our lives have been slowly taken over by technology and the media. Technology and media have become more common and accessible which cause humans to spend more time on their phones and laptops rather than sleeping . Media consumption is starting to affect people’s abilities to pay attention. The constant stream of stimuli computers and cellphones offer poses new challenges for young people to focus and learn. The increasing role of media has also caused a rapid shift from deep attention to hyper attention which has become a norm in the this generation of young people. This negatively influenced students’ abilities to focus and pay attention. However, media can also shift someone’s attention away from one’s troubled life and offers escape

Today, most research done on technology’s effect on sleep has been focused on how technology makes sleeping more difficult. Technology can become a distraction and keep your brain active as a result of using it before going to sleep. The National Sleep Foundation even discovered through a poll that “nine of 10 Americans reported