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Spotify Screwed Up My Sleep (Again)
When digital convenience meets reality on a seasonal basis.
Sleep has been an elusive beast in my adult years.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” they say.
I suppose I might be living proof of the opposite effect. But whoever wrote a limerick for the night-owls of society? The midnight runners. The society abstainers. The vampiric non-bloodsuckers who instead derive sustenance from darkened rooms lit up by unhealthy relationships with our computer screens.
I like to imagine it would go something like this:
“Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man bitter, Twitter, and despised.” Oh wait, perhaps that’s more apt for our recent reality show president.
How about this?
“Later to bed, later to rise, makes a man unhealthy, unstealthy, and full of fries.”
“Yes, that will work,” I say as I finish the last salty morsel in my McMeal.
Needless to say, the adage is probably true, on both ends of the scale. And it's why I’ve always had a lingering side hobby of researching everything there is to know about sleep.
I never seem to implement it, of course. That would just make too much damn sense.
But I did on one occasion almost two years ago. And just like the law of unintended consequences states, there are often unexpected benefits and drawbacks to the best of plans.
This one was no different.
The Cure for Sleep
When scrolling around the gulleys of the internet one day, I came across an interesting ‘cure’ to falling asleep fast.
No, I don’t mean the breathing techniques of air force pilots and commandos on their way to kill someone. The one I found was much simpler — and perhaps more moral.
It was an article about the benefits of “white noise” on your sleep. And as I am kind of geared for it, I went on a rabbit hole down this subject.
You’ve probably heard of white noise and how it can be used in meditation, relaxation, and for sleeping.
