Yet another excuse for my "inability" to get out of bed at a decent hour:
Is There An Unexpected Price For Late Night High Tech Excitement?
June 17, 2003 -- Bethesda, MD -- Recently released research claims that playing lots of video games improves some types of visual functioning. Before rushing to your computer or buying more games, consider another new research finding. Newly published results suggests that performing an exciting video display terminal task fitted with a bright display suppresses the nocturnal changes in melatonin concentration and other elements of our biological clocks. In other words, playing an exciting video game at night with a bright display backlight might just be the physiological cause of a poor night's sleep.
(Link via apostropher, via The Modulator.)
Comments
Ahh, nostalgia.
Have you read The Dreamfields (http://oivas.com/kwj/k-dreamf.html)?
Posted by: ManWithNoDomain | June 22, 2003 2:05 AM
Now I know it's late at night. Let's try that again:
http://oivas.com/kwj/k-dreamf.html
Posted by: ManWithNoDomain | June 22, 2003 2:05 AM
Might be 'cos I stayed up reading the whole new Harry Potter book, but I found the abstract from the journal to be, er, quite abstract!
-Greffier
Posted by: (or linked to the) Journal of Applied Physiology | June 22, 2003 3:06 PM
Late-night computer game sessions are evil, evil, evil. Even after you finally shut off the computer and get to bed, your mind keeps re-playing the game, thinking of how you could have done it better.
Take it from one who's been there many a time: lay off the past-bedtime gaming if you value your sleep.
Posted by: Jimcat | June 23, 2003 4:58 PM