Phone in Bed: Why It Wrecks Sleep and a 7-Day Plan to Break It (Video)

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Did you know a bedtime scroll can steal up to 90 minutes?

Did you know a bedtime scroll can steal up to 90 minutes?

Phone in Bed

We’ll uncover why that bedtime scroll wrecks your sleep and reveal the one rule you can keep for good, so you finally get the rest you deserve.

What a Phone Does

First, the phone steals time. A quick glance turns into fifty minutes of scrolling. Second, it keeps your brain in daytime mode, waiting for messages. And third, night mode only dims the light, it doesn’t stop the content or the reach.

Time stolen each night

Most people lose between forty and ninety minutes each night to that habit, which adds up to five or six hours of sleep over a week.

Day-by-Day Plan

The plan adds one small step each day and never removes the earlier ones. By day seven you’ll have a routine that feels effortless, and you’ll have a single rule that sticks.

Day 1, Measure

Start by checking your screen-time after ten p.m. and jotting the minutes on paper. Also record when you actually get into bed and when the phone finally goes dark. No other changes, just observation.

Extra sleep possible

When you follow the full week, most people gain thirty to sixty extra minutes of sleep each night, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.

The one rule

The single rule that makes the biggest difference is to keep your phone out of the bedroom entirely. Charge it across the room and use a regular alarm clock on the nightstand. That way the phone can’t lure you back after lights out.

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The full guide is on thecareonline.com. General information only, so check with your doctor for your own case.