I'm pretty sure having electronics (e.g. tv) going when you're trying to get to sleep is supposed to negatively impact on the quality of your sleep, but that may have been disproven somewhere along the line.
I'm pretty sure having electronics (e.g. tv) going when you're trying to get to sleep is supposed to negatively impact on the quality of your sleep, but that may have been disproven somewhere along the line.
It's still valid, especially with children. I'm on my phone so I can't provide a source, but I am sure it is easily searchable.
Interesting to note. I think using whatever works is valid in a way, given scientists seem to change their mind about what is good and bad in this area with each new moon.
Having the TV on didn't keep me awake. Like the noise of a fan on a hot summer's day, it just became a sort of comforting background noise.
It doesn't work now as an adult. Now if I try to sleep and the TV is on it just feels like someone's trying to talk in my ear when i'm focused on something else and it's annoying. The exception to this is ASMR videos, or really any type of video that is geared toward relaxation and sleep.
I can't remember what the hours were exactly, but I think schools out here started at 8AM and you'd need to be ready for the bus by 7:30. So 10 seems like a good time. I'd probably keep it up for the weekends just so the child's bed schedule doesn't get thrown off by the time Monday comes around.
In a perfect world I'd go to bed at 8pm as well.
This is the same for me. TV must be off for me to sleep, but I can fall asleep with relatxtion videos. I use to be able to fall asleep with tv when I was younger which would get me in trouble quite frequently because even though I would be asleep before raunchy stuff came on by the time my dad woke up it would be 4am and he'd come upstairs and always see softcore porn on my television. -_-
I honestly have no idea how to explain it. Here's a link to its Wikipedia page and a generator for each of the three different types. The difference is easier to hear.
Pink noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SimplyNoise -- The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.