手機如何影響睡眠:睡覺時你的手機放在哪兒?大綱
Most people who own iPhones use them as their alarm clock — making it all too easy to check email one last time before falling asleep and hard to ever feel unplugged from work and social networks.
大部分智能手機用戶都把手機當成是鬧鐘，睡前也還不忘要再查查郵件。其便捷也的確讓人們很難真正地從工作和社交網絡中抽離開來。Several years ago my boss passed out from exhaustion after staying up late to catch up on work. She banged her head on the way down and ended up with five stitches — and became what she calls a "sleep evangelist." Now she leaves her phone charging in another room when she goes to bed and encourages friends to do the same.
幾年前，我的老闆由於長期熬夜加班而體力不支暈倒，下樓時倒地撞到了頭，最後縫了五針——這個疤痕也被她戲稱爲“睡覺福音”。現在每天睡前她都把手機放在另一個房間充電，她還鼓勵朋友們也這麼做。"I sent all my friends the same Christmas gift — a Pottery Barn alarm clock — so they could stop using the excuse that they needed their very tempting iPhone by their bed to wake them up in the morning," she said.
她這樣說道：“我給我所有的朋友都送了同樣的聖誕節禮物：一個Pottery Barn牌的鬧鐘，這樣他們就不能再把手機當鬧鐘作爲上牀玩手機的藉口啦。”
If your phone wakes you up in the morning, it may also be keeping you up at night. A 2008 study funded by major mobile phone makers themselves showed that people exposed to mobile radiation took longer to fall asleep and spent less time in deep sleep.
如果手機能在早上把你叫醒，那麼它也有這個魅力讓你晚上不睡覺。2008年對主要手機制造者調查顯示，受到過多手機輻射的人入眠所需時間更長，深度睡眠時間也會減短。"The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are adversely affected," the study concluded.
研究總結道：“研究結果顯示，實驗室中884MHz的無線信號會嚴重影響到睡眠，從而影響恢復日常生活中所消耗體力。”And that's just a physical symtom of sleeping near the phone — "sham" exposure to a phone without radiation failed to produce the same effect. The itch to check in at all hours of the night or wake up to the sound of a text message disrupts our sleep, too.
這其實和我們把手機放在枕邊睡覺的情況一樣——手機的輻射也會產生相同的效果。由於想不斷地查看信息，以及信息的提示音都會打擾我們的睡眠。A quarter of young people feel like they must be available by phone around the clock, according to a Swedish study that linked heavy cell phone use to sleeping problems, stress and depression. Unreturned messages carry more guilt when the technology to address them lies at our fingertips. Some teens even return text messages while they are asleep.
瑞典一份調查顯示，四分之一的年輕人覺得他們必須得有手機在身邊。手機帶來了睡眠問題、壓力和抑鬱。科技的發展帶來了指尖的聯繫方式，不回覆信息只會帶來更多的負罪感。所以一些青少年甚至會在睡覺時回覆短信。Most of us choose not to set limits on our nighttime availability. Nearly three-quarters of people from the age of 18 to 44 sleep with their phones within reach, according to a 2012 Time/Qualcomm poll. That number falls off slightly in middle age, but only in people 65 and older is leaving the phone in another room as common as sleeping right next it.
我們絕大部分人都不會給晚上的時間設定限制。2012年調查顯示，四分之三的18至44歲的人會把手機放在身邊入睡。這種情況在中年人中會略微下降，但只有65歲及以上的老人才會習慣睡覺時把手機放在其他的房間。
