The next time you can't sleep, your brain whirring over shopping lists, tomorrow's meetings and whether or not you locked the back door, the solution could be simple - move your mobile phone off the bedside table and out of your bedroom altogether.
Eight out of ten of us keep our mobiles on overnight according to Ofcom, and around half use our phone as an alarm clock, a survey found. But experts are concerned about the effect this is having - at the very least it makes us 'hypervigilant' so our sleep is more likely to be disturbed and we end up not getting enough of the restorative sleep we need. But it might also trigger insomnia and other sleeping problems.
翻來覆去，徹夜難眠，腦袋卻還在思考明天早上要上菜市場的採購清單、公司的會議、門窗到底鎖了沒、瓦斯關了沒…等生活瑣事而無法順利成眠時，不妨做一個簡單的動作：將您的手機拿離床頭，最好讓它遠離臥房。
根據英國通訊管理局(Ofcom)的調查顯示，百分之八十的民眾晚上睡覺手機都不關機，一半以上的人更直接把手機當鬧鐘來使用。專家們擔心這樣的習慣，會帶來一些負面的影響，他們發現手機會讓我們『過度警覺』，這很可能會干擾我們的睡眠，使我們不能得到充分的休息，間接導致不眠症以及其他睡眠問題。
