Playing Video Games Before Bedtime Can Be Harmful to Dream

By Saso Gjorevski

Gamers who play video games for more than two hours before bedtime have a problem with sleep,and not only with normal sleeping but also they have problems in the time of sleeping with constant awakenings - this information is based from results that couple  new survey shows and researchers say that we really should take care what our kids are doing before going to bed.

Many of these people (kids, students... ) usually play at night before sleeping, after school, university lectures or work, but recent research that is conducted at the Australian University "Flinders" showed that it was night playing video games that causes problems with sleeping.

The research was conducted on a group of 17 teenagers who played a new quick and violent video  games between 50 and 150 minutes two nights in a row. Those who have  played only 50 minutes had no significant problems with sleep, while the other group that played more than 150 minutes was having problems sleeping and some teenagers woke up several times in the night.

Michael Gradisar Professor at "Flinders" says that all persons who participated in the survey went to sleep at the same time as always, so they didn't stay awake longer  because of the game so it wouldn't affect research. Nighttime awakening influenced the REM phase to the people who played 150 minutes and this REM phase is reduced to about 20 minutes.

Other experts say exactly REM phase has an important role in remembering things learned during the day, so that playing video games before bedtime for students is not exactly the wisest thing.

"Digital trends" say that they cannot be quite sure whether bad sleep is caused by playing video games or from excessive viewing on screen, or whether it is related to technology in today's screens. Of course they are protecting their business. Last year's survey of the National Sleep Foundation found that there is a link between poor sleep and use of devices with screens which have the backlight, such as smart phones, game consoles, computers and TVs.

In the future we can expect new research that will try to discover how watching TV,gadgets  and playing video games can affect the length and quality of sleep, and till then it would be good to listen to the advice of NFS and cut viewing screens and devices before bedtime.

Yes you can play a lot of   rel=nofollow [http://www.coolgamesforkids.biz]lovely games for kids during the day but leave the night for good, quality sleeping.

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