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Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”

— Lucretius

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Although the increasing rates of insomnia around the world may well reflect increased stress and worrying, we think there is another contributor -- smartphones and earbuds. Take a look at people walking down the street, driving in their cars, eating alone in restaurants and cafes. Not so long ago, these people wouldn’t be doing anything else. Their minds would wander and they would daydream; their DMN** would be active, and, although they were totally unaware of it, they would be tagging recent memories for processing later that night. But at first the Walkman and then the iPhone came to dominate our free time, the DMN has slowly been squeezed out of our daily lives. Maybe all these worries come crashing in at bedtime because it’s the only time we’ve left the brain to perform the critically important task of identifying and tagging memories for later processing. May be you can’t have your iPhone and sleep, too. ~ Page 127

**The DMN is an anatomically defined brain system that preferentially activates when individuals are not focused on the external environment

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