[CarolynS]

I find myself stressing out a lot about blue light in the evening and at night. How important is avoiding screens, really? I would feel a lot of peace if I knew that on an off night I could spend time watching a show instead of forcing myself to read a boring book for hours. I also find myself avoiding things in the evening like watching movies with my family, or shows with my husband, things I used to love doing. Does anyone have any insight for me?! Thank you!

[Chee2308]

The moment you give way to your insomnia is the moment you lose. You just cannot win if you keep doing it! Avoiding things won’t change anything nor guarantee you sleep well either, but you would have deprived yourself of the things you find truly enjoyable. Any connection you make only exists inside your head and is purely imaginary. And therefore any result you get is purely coincidental as well. I encourage you to go outside your comfort zone, stop protecting your sleep and then when you find you can still sleep in spite of it, you automatically debunk it. But then, like most insomniacs, you will start moving on to other things, like noise, husband snoring, rituals, sleepy teas etc etc etc. At some point, you are just going to have to confront yourself and ask “Well when will this nonsense ever stop??”. And it won’t because you keep on engaging in it. You just go on demonstrating to yourself that sleep is unnatural and therefore doing xyz is a must and SLEEP JUST HAD TO BE FIGURED OUT! Well good luck then. You just keep going in circles, your mind will keep playing games with you and sleep still elusive because curiosity, pondering and the fear that sleep is never enough is sufficient to keep you awake!

[Martin Reed]

Doing things that matter to you is probably far more important and influential than trying to avoid blue light — after all, if blue light was the problem, avoiding it would get rid of insomnia and create great nights of sleep each night!

So, feel free to watch a show and watch movies with your husband if that’s something you enjoy or if that’s something that’s important or meaningful to you.

I hope this helps!

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