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Music before bed is said to help you fall asleep. However, recent research shows that it has the opposite effect. Our brain processes sound even during sleep. Therefore, listening to music before bed may not be a great idea.
1. Is it good to listen to music before going to bed?
Listening to music before bed is said to help you fall asleep but can have the opposite effect. Small thoughts or tunes that can get stuck in a person's head can also interfere with a person's dreams, affecting their ability to fall asleep, a new study finds. Study author Michael Scullin, a sleep researcher at Baylor University in Houston, said: "Our brains continue to process music even when there's no music playing, even while we're listening. sleep". Everyone knows that listening to music feels good, especially teenagers and young adults who often listen to music near bedtime. However, the more music you listen to, the more likely you are to get earworm syndrome at bedtime. This is the situation when a song or a tune keeps repeating in your mind that you can't get rid of. This will affect your sleep.
In the survey that included 209 participants, they completed a series of questionnaires on sleep quality, music listening habits, and frequency of ear picking. The questionnaires included how often they developed earworm syndrome when trying to fall asleep, when they woke up in the middle of the night, and when they woke up in the morning. Then, 50 of the participants went to Scullin's Sleep Cognition and Neuroscience lab in Baylor, where the team tried to induce ear effects to determine if it affected the ears. How does it affect sleep quality? The researchers recorded the participants' brain waves, heart rate, and breathing rate as they slept. The researchers also took EEG readings, a profile of electrical activity in the brain to check for physiological markers of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Memory consolidation is the process by which temporary memories are naturally reactivated during sleep and transformed into a more permanent form.
Research shows that people who have a habit of listening to more music will suffer from persistent earworm syndrome and poor sleep quality. So, to keep music from having a negative effect on sleep, the researchers recommend first trying to listen to moderate music or taking occasional breaks if you have earworm syndrome, especially avoiding music. Before go to bed.
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2. Should you listen to music before going to bed?
Listening to music before going to bed increases the risk of nightmares. Because your brain processes information even while you are sleeping. Therefore, listening to music at night at bedtime can affect your sleep and may cause nightmares, especially your heart rate will increase faster and promote your brain to stay awake and you can't sleep. Okay. In addition, if listening to music before going to bed can make you fall asleep when the music has not turned off. Listening to music continuously for many hours is inevitable, the nerve cells in the cochlea will work continuously, overwork and lead to fatigue. This can cause severe hearing loss, even deafness.
In short, music helps us relax after a tiring working day. However, listening to music before going to bed can affect sleep and reduce hearing. So music at bedtime is not a great idea.
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Reference source: webmd.com, healthline
