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Writing a To-Do List Before Bed Could Help You Sleep
A new bedtime to-do list, courtesy of sleep researchers at Baylor University:
1. Write a to-do list before bed.
2. Go to sleep.
3. Sleep better than all the non-list-writing people you meet tomorrow.
It sounds simple, but there's evidence that it just might work. According to a small study published in the January issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57 men and women aged 18-30 spent one weeknight in a controlled sleep laboratory and took 5 minutes to write out a to-do list before bedtime.
The key, according to researchers, is in mentally "offloading" responsibilities before bedtime, theoretically freeing the mind for a good night's sleep. Researchers measured each participant's brain activity overnight using a technique called polysomnography, which records eye movement, muscle activity and other biological changes. The researchers found that the participants who wrote to-do lists fell asleep an average of 9 minutes faster than those who wrote about already-accomplished tasks.
Lead author Michael Scullin, director of Baylor's Sleep Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory, said that "most people just cycle through their to-do lists in their heads, so we wanted to explore whether the act of writing the lists down could counteract nighttime difficulties with falling asleep."
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