News JVTech Leaving headphones on while sleeping is bad for your health, as this scientific study proves
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If you often fall asleep with headphones because the music relaxes you, we understand you, but in reality it is a very harmful habit for the health of your ears. This study takes care of explaining everything to us.
Insomnia, an affliction for thousands of people
Not everyone can afford the luxury of easily falling asleep in 5 minutes. According to an Ifop survey conducted in 2022, seven out of ten French people suffer from sleep disorders. 43% of women say they wake up at least once a night, compared to 35% of men.
According to specialists from the French Research Society and Sleep Medicine (SRFMS):
For the first time since sleep has been epidemiologically observed in France, the average nightly sleep time is less than 7 hours.
There is a problem and the causes are many. But what interests us here is One of the solutions to problems falling asleep: listening to music. You can hear it around you, many people put music on their headphones to relax, think of something else or think of nothing, hear something that makes them happy to let the mind take off to dreamland.
At first glance, this might seem like a good solution, but it’s actually This is a real source of additional problems
Music in headphones while sleeping, more harm than good
Destroying people’s dreams is not easy, but unfortunately it is. And the WHO is formal: Listening to music with headphones or earphones while sleeping is bad for your health. When you fall asleep, blood flow is reduced and the resistance of the eardrum is also reduced. Continuing to listen during sleep therefore increases the risk of hearing loss or the occurrence of tinnitus.
Directed by Michael K.Scullin, a researcher at the University of Baylor in Texas a study about the behavior of the body when listening to music before going to bed.
To start, Michael asked his 199 participants what they thought about the effects of music in the ears before bed. The general ignorance is interesting: 87% of people (including me) thought music improved sleep or at least has no negative weight on the latter. But, as you might expect, the results of the experiment prove the exact opposite.
By playing different genres of music, at different intervals and for different ages, everything is clear: the phenomenon of catchy tunes (if you have a sound that sticks in your head) is what changes sleep, making it difficult to fall asleep and making sleep itself six times less qualitative.
As with many things, the human body does so much to do what makes it feel good. But often the misuse of the good stuff turns negative rather than positive. Music is good, but it remains a source of pleasure that must be consumed in low doses. The WHO recommends limiting listening to music with headphones to just one hour a day and not listening while you sleep.