<story><title>What excessive screen time does to the adult brain</title><url>https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-excessive-screen-time-does-to-the-adult-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frereubu</author><text>This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; of the brain. Just so happens that the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; is also the &amp;quot;vomiting centre&amp;quot; along with a load of other stuff. I&amp;#x27;d treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but for very different reasons.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.”&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response.&lt;p&gt;That said,  the &amp;quot;sky before screens&amp;quot; idea has been rummaging in my mind since i first heard about it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-made-me-a-better-cyclist-could-it-work-for-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>I got into &amp;quot;deep work&amp;quot; a while ago, keeping my internet off until noon every day. It blew my mind how calm and focused I was when I didn&amp;#x27;t fill my head with nonsense first thing in the morning.</text></comment>
<story><title>What excessive screen time does to the adult brain</title><url>https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-excessive-screen-time-does-to-the-adult-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frereubu</author><text>This sounds like hocus pocus to me, along the lines of the claim that phone alert tones activate the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; of the brain. Just so happens that the &amp;quot;love centre&amp;quot; is also the &amp;quot;vomiting centre&amp;quot; along with a load of other stuff. I&amp;#x27;d treat this hand-wavy claim with the same kind of skepticism - your counter-example is an excellent one. I agree that looking at a phone first thing in the morning is a bad idea, but for very different reasons.</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>“One of the biggest issues with picking up the phone right away in the morning is that when you have an object close to your face, it’s registered as a threat,” says Loeffler. “You wouldn’t want to wake up and look a bear in the face every morning. On a physiological level, it’s the same thing.”&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response.&lt;p&gt;That said,  the &amp;quot;sky before screens&amp;quot; idea has been rummaging in my mind since i first heard about it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-made-me-a-better-cyclist-could-it-work-for-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cyclingweekly.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;sky-before-screens-has-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latexr</author><text>Agreed that justification sounds like rubbish. Especially when one of their stated alternatives is to read a book. Unless you’re reading a digital book through a projector, that too is an object close to the face.</text></comment>