Why reading before bed is a game changer for your brain.

Why reading before bed is a game changer for your brain.

📚 MY FAVOURITE (NON-FICTION) BOOKS
1) Atomic Habits by James Clear
2) Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
4) Essentialism by Greg McKeown
5) The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
6) Futureproof by Kevin Roose

📚 MY FAVOURITE (FICTION) BOOKS
1) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
2) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3) Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
4) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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[DanielThomasArgueta]

I'm going to read while in bed before sleeping now. Thank you for this video.

[angelsrosena]

I read for 1 hour in the morning and for 30 minutes at night 6 days a week and I like it a lot.

[JariSatta]

I am a musician. I play something challenging before bed, but it is done super slow and with precise technique. The non-rem phase will clean the practiced part even further. I can see development in my playing as early as next morning.

[dramatic_]

If I read before bed I don't go to bed🥰

[ThomasSmith-zq]

it’s kinda crazy how nobody’s talking about Antozent, they are selling 250 self help books for the price of one

[sportlams]

anyone else obsessed with Unveiling Your Hiidden Potential by Bruce Thornwood

[Novastar.SaberCombat]

Author here. Over the years, I've received many emails from my readers, and it's interesting to see the differences between which of them "read whenever they can" or on the go versus the ones who literally schedule some quiet, uninterrupted time in the early AM or afterwork PM. It's a *MARKETABLE* difference on which readers absorb and maintain the information properly and which get everything confused (or "remember" things which didn't happen).

[OlgaFyodorova]

Reading is huge for making me fall asleep. And if I lie on my side, it's even faster. I use a Kindle with warm light and read in darkness.

[davidjimenezlopez]

I am somewhat disappointed. I got all excited thinking "great, a YouTuber who actually cites studies", but when I check "the sources", they are three opinion pieces, the kind that also tell you "studies say..." without telling you which studies. The other file, "Researches" does link to peer review academic journals that could conceivably contain relevant papers, but no actual study is cited.

I am not disagreeing with the premise. I used to to read before bed from first grade too my early 30s, and then lost the habit that I am trying to restablish.

I guess I am just disappointed that someone who explicitly tells you he's citing "the studies" in the notes, doesn't seem to know what a study looks like.

[maggiedormer]

I read every night at bedtime. It’s a ritual I can’t do without. I use an e-reader on night mode for two reasons. One, lighter to physically hold. Two, I have an eye condition which means I can barely see the print in a physical book unless I have all the lights on and a magnifying glass! Not conducive to sleep. With an e-reader I can change the size of the font to suit my vision.

[dripy-es]

Love reading before bed, helps us relax. My son falls asleep instantly. I actually get a deep sleep when I read. I use my kindle.

[darius_Pk]

What a beautiful video. I love reading and I definitely love reading before bed & after I wake up in the morning. I'm still in a fight with social media stuff. They f'ed up my life so bad that I can't do anything else than lose time on things I don't need. I'm in college, just finished the second year and I have one month before I have to retake some exams. Since I entered the vacation, I started studying hard because I need to take those exams to pass the year. I planned 8 hours of learning every day and 1 hour of working out and realized how easy it is to be better at what you do just by quitting social media and focusing on yourself. I just feel so stupid and now, for the first time in my life I actually think I'm worthy of something, my depression was fake, I can become a writer ( as I want to), I can pass those hard exams, I can get a girlfriend, I can build muscle, I can do whatever I want to do. Your channel has some awesome videos and I plan on listening to them in the morning while drinking my coffee. Keep it up, you're amazing!

[cl-jhbu]

I’ve been reading in bed for decades. The only downside is I read lying on my back so if I dozed off the book fell on my face. I switched to reading ebooks on my phone and got a phone case that hooks onto my thumb so it falls to my side. Problem solved.😊

[AVELINO]

Thank you for making this video, wish you the best and everyone good luck in improving their routine for a better life.

[nazneenjabbar]

Love the sketches, thanks for the research. Always read at bedtime, a cosy time.
Of course always read to the kids at bedtime.
Great video

[baishnabdalai]

I appreciate your advice and time you spent on resaerching.
Thanking you.

[da-be-ju]

Depends on what you read. I remember reading horror stories by Stephen King as a teenager and not being able to fall asleep.

[kananahmvdov]

Some books are read for wakening up, some are just for sleeping.

[tomlewis]

The 'blue light' thing is a non-issue. All e-readers have the ability to reduce or eliminate all blue light, including the two most popular, Kindle, and Apple 'Books'. With a paper book, you have to have a light on. How much 'blue' is there in that? With incandescents now not even legal to sell and LEDs having an outrageously strong spike of blue in them, maybe an e-reader is the best choice. You have much more control over the light that way.

Empathy? Of course. The best fiction authors spend the first pages of their books getting the reader to bond with their protagonist. The most powerful way to do this is to create empathy, and they have a number of ways of doing that.

[balasaashti]

Don't read complex books. Me reading my new favorite book Crime and Punishment.