What Do You Do Wrong Every Night According To Science? | DEBUNKED

What Things Are We Do WRONG Every NIGHT that affect our sleep and generally be bad for our health?!

Join us as we take you through a typical evening routine, and learn about all the things you're doing wrong every night according to science.

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Stu K - Researcher | Producer | Animator | Illustrator | Editor
Jacob T - Researcher | Writer
Ross G - Animator | Editor
Robin M - Guest VO

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Sources:
Medical News Today, Sleep Foundation, WebMD, Hopkins Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, NCBI, Journal Of Applied Physiology, CDC, Time, Healthline, Dreamland, Medicine & Science In Sports Exercise

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[xfnnlkd]

1. no late dinner
2. no late exercises
3. no late water
4. yes late shower {warm water}
5. yes 18.3 temp {cool}
6. yes Sleep on back
7. no late screen

8. yes meditate
9. yes diary
10. yes to do list

11. sleeping satisfied no matter the progress u made {as long as u tried your best}

[Quickened]

I find that browsing YouTube videos puts me right to sleep... Problem is, I drop my phone on my face or chest, but that's my cue to hang it up! 😴

[davecerv]

Showering before bed has always been such a cozy thing for me. So cool to see my cozy-ness is backed up with science!

[ourfarm]

"avoid blue light before bed" *has an all blue background*

[lindafraser]

I love how those studies assume people sleep in one of the positions! I use all 3 positions multiple times a night!

[imkmtqj]

So that's why being a side-sleeper I always unintentionally embraced the blanket with my legs. Seems to be for the same reason as they recommended a pillow here

[BossOfAllTrades]

Considering we went from exercising up to 4 hours in the prehistoric era to 0 in the modern era it definitely explains a lot.

[realjoemavro]

I can testify to all of these except "no screens." For the last three years, I've been watching relaxing videos on youtube before bed and 9/10 times, it makes me feel relaxed and sleepy.

[TheDeuceofSpades]

The key to good sleep is happy thoughts when you put your head on your pillow. Start thinking about something that would put you in absolute bliss.

[NetAndyCz]

I cannot sleep when I am hungry, so eating in late evening is absolutely fine for me, overeating on the other hand is not.
Sleeping position is a weird one, I tried to look into that one and I found a lot of contradictory papers and no really well done study with big enough and random enough sample. I am stick what feels the most comfortable.

[lonelyPorterCH]

In summer I mostly shower late, nice to know that thats good^^

Sadly, my room is almost impossible to cool below 24° C in summer because the building is very new and isolated pretty good (no there is no AC), keeping windows open the whole night only brings it down from 25+ to about 24

[diyeana]

Why does hearing Robin & Stu's voices make me so happy? I think I'll sleep well tonight.

[gamingmoth]

I work night shift as a Security Guard and sleep during the day. Any suggestions for how I could get a better sleep? Would it be better for me to sleep during the morning right after I get off work or stay up a bit and sleep in the early afternoon? Is pacing around at work better than sitting and relaxing? Does always wearing sunglasses during the day when outside negatively effect my ability to sleep when I’m inside? Does wearing a face mask over my eyes negatively effect my sleep quality in the long run?

[utareangara]

Night shift for phones. Also for PC users. f.lux is fantastic. based on your timezone changes your screen to a WARM light

[GuyInBlackClothes]

I agree with the food topic, I hate that I end up eating dinner at 2am before I head to bed. I hate this. But thankfully (for some reason) watching educational videos help me fall asleep as I learn. I fall asleep quickly and eases my mindset.

[pandabytes]

I use a blue light filter for my computer, and use smart lighting to adjust color temps in the morning and evening, and I wake up almost every morning feeling energized... having had no problems falling asleep. I sleep on the floor most nights, and the only thing that I've found to keep me from falling asleep is not being comfy. That is almost always solved by turning to my other side, at which point I'm usually out in less than 5 minutes.

[sethwell]

Showering only in the morning has got to be the grossest dumbest time to shower, y’all mean you crawl into bed when you’re at your dirtiest/sweatiest?

[CarryCherry]

I do get pretty tired from a workout. I can't do it right after work because my whole day would consist of work, workout & sleep.

[megaming]

It's somehow funny, that if I got exhausted by exercise or work over the day, I'll have a really hard evening, trying to find any sleep, because when I get home, all that tiredness completely goes away in about 10-30mins of being back home and transforms into "I wanna do more" from my body and mind...