Why Does Looking at My Phone Keep Me Awake?

Phones hurt sleep in two ways. First, the light: screens are bright and blue-heavy, which signals "daytime" to your brain right when you want to wind down. Second, and often bigger, is the content — scrolling, messages, and news are stimulating and keep your mind engaged when it should be powering down. The combination is what makes "just five more minutes" turn into a wired hour.

The cleanest fix is to keep the phone out of the bedroom, but if that's unrealistic, reduce both levers: switch on night mode to warm the screen, lower the brightness, and pick calmer content — or better, swap scrolling for reading. If evening screens are unavoidable, blue light glasses cut the light side of the problem. More in blue light and sleep.

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