Apparently, Dr. Mercola says that you shouldn’t look at screens before bed. The intense light stimulates chemical production in the brain that gets you all confused about what it is exactly that you should be doing. What am I up to? Where am I going? What time of day is it?
How many other things do we do to ourselves that we shouldn’t be doing? Answer: probably a crapload. Things like checking in with your bitizens in Tiny Tower before putting your head down on your pillow. I recently read an article in which the author indicated his preference for the Kindle Fire over the iPad as an e-reader because he can hold the Fire more easily while on his side in bed. The things we do to ourselves…
But now you know. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you do something differently? Maybe I will. Maybe not. Regardless, it comes down to choices, choices like whether or not to stare at bright screens before bed.
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