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by fsckboy 658 days ago
>people who did not use a phone before bed had the highest quality of sleep

>This has been consistently my experience -- if I am awake at night and use a phone, I will almost never get back to sleep

these are not the same thing, and this confusion is part of the reason it is difficult to track good information on this topic.

"not falling asleep" is not "low quality sleep", it's simply "no sleep"

also, sleep researchers report that people who think they are insomniac often get a lot more sleep than they think they are getting, so self reports are not that useful.

personally, i would like to wake up an hour later in the morning, hours after I had no trouble falling asleep, and after hours of no trouble sleeping. With all the talk about sleep, I never hear advice tuned to my situation, but the claims are that it does.