Hot take: Manipulative and mentally destructive social media algorithms are the reason your sleep is disrupted. It's what is on the screens that is the problem, not what color it is.

But of course, the tech companies would rather have you blame the color of the screen than their own products. I'm sure they loved adding those color-shifting features to their next products too. not only do they avoid the blame, they get to sell you the "solution".

I've never cared about whether or not it affected sleep. A warm tone is just more pleasant in the dark I think, especially if you can't get dark mode.

"The more light that you get during the daytime, the less impact the light in the evening has," Zeitzer says. The pre-pandemic world exposed people to a lot more light than they realised. There's the Sun during a commute, the piercing fluorescent bulbs of an office, a walk to lunch. Now, so many of us roll out of bed and sit under the same lighting conditions until we go to sleep. Our bodies can't tell the difference between day and night.

RTO propaganda! /s

I’m curious if any part of this is that modern OLED screens are much less blue than 2012’s LED backlit screens, which affect reproducing the study.

Also, beware the tyranny of averages!

An average of 9 minutes can be some part of the population unaffected while another is massively affected.

And agree with others, unless you’re reading books, you’re probably reading email and social media before bed, and the last thing I want before sleep Is to stimulate my brain into thinking. Reading a book really helps with that.

Seems to align with my personal experience that turning on the filter (but also really turning down the brightness more than the default settings on the phone allow) makes me fall asleep sooner, but that could easily be from just training myself over time that this is the signal to start the sleep shutdown process.

I don’t care about sleep, the blue is painful, the yellow is not.

Regardless of the effect on circadian rhythm, I wonder if there's any research on eye strain. I personally felt less strain when turning on dark mode or sepia filters, even in the evening.

So blue light is not ruining our sleep because it's just responsible for 9 minutes of sleeplessness, did I get that right?

Interventions to reduce short-wavelength (“blue”) light exposure at night and their effects on sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://academic.oup.com/sleepadvances/article/1/1/zpaa002/5851240?login=false&guestAccessKey=

A bidirectional model of sleep and technology use: A theoretical review of How much, for whom, and which mechanisms https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079224000376

I have a wild theory that humans needs the full spectrum of natural sunlight nearly every day for at least an hour or so. It's known already that is creates vitamin D. I think other unknown effects happen and that the screens people stare at are not providing the same spectrum, resulting in a lack of wavelengths that we need to stay healthy.

Newton and Tesla both have anecdotal stories about staring at the sun (or it's reflection) and being inspired by it as well. There are others as well.

It's a crazy idea, I know, but what if, under certain rare circumstances, viewing the sun unlocks certain mental capabilities and enhances the mind or body of the person who experiences it in unexpected ways?

I'm not saying anyone should stare at the sun obviously, I simply think there's so much more to light than we understand and that limiting wavelengths, in my opinion, will only prevent such an occurance, if it were something that actually existed.

I actually feel terrible the following morning of I fall asleep after doing stuff on my phone (which is most of the nights). If not because of the blue light, then why?

Lol! Wut? Is this person stupid? Since when is the color of the light, the problem? It's the fact that you scroll when you should be winding down for the night, and then keep scrolling well past the point when you should be sleeping.