# Talk:Sleep hygiene

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Hi, I'm new here and was afraid of editing the article directly, so I decided to make a suggestion in the talk. I would like to insert a short video, explaining "Sleep Hygiene" in a simple way. I'm sure this will enrich the article and make the topic more accessible, especially for younger generation that are more trusted with this medium. Besides that I wasn't sure how to do this technically. =)
Here is the video that I found on commons:

Thank you for your help. 
Norma.jean (talk) 10:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@Doc James: you've mentioned in one of our discussions that you would have a look on "sleep hygiene" video and check if it could be used in the article on EN Wikipedia? Did you have a chance? Thanks for your feedback in advance.--Norma.jean (talk) 15:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
User:Hordaland what do you think? It is a fairly accurate but simple explanation of the key aspects of sleep hygiene. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:20, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Doc James.  I wrote my opinion on that on the Admin noticeboard on 6th July:  Diff.
Cheers, --Hordaland (talk) 13:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Per Hordaland "It starts well (internal biological clock, the hormone melatonin), but the claim that "Simon" has trained his "body" to know that "it's only time for melatonin when Simon is in bed" is nonsense. The pineal gland starts secreting melatonin at least a couple of hours before bedtime."
Wondering if you can correct the above. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:54, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
This is IMHO an excellent presentation of what sleep hygiene is and a few key notions about sleep and the circadian rhythm (although it lacks a mention of the sleep homeostat and ultradian cycles - called in the video "wakefulness phases" - but they are not necessarily needed here). The problem is not the video per se, but that the assumptions of sleep hygiene were never proved and there is a lack of evidence of its effectiveness, hence the choice of presenting sleep hygiene as a story is fraught with the pitfall of presenting it as a fact (ie, Simon has recalibrated his sleep and circadian rhythm by the end of the video) when it is certainly not but just a hypothesis at this point. --213.211.156.118 (talk) 01:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

dark blue light is not mentioned. with darkblue curtains you WILL have darkblue light in the sleeping room.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.149.83.125 (talk) 16:05, 20 February 2023 (UTC) 

While noteworthy, two research studies were used to call into doubt all of sleep hygiene which seems false from my reading of the research. A lack of positive data for single-component sleep hygiene educational treatment results seems conflated with multi-component treatment results and all of the sleep research regarding the components of sleep hygiene. Grantbow (talk) 11:03, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

The paragraph right now is not written from a neutral point of view. It is very negative. Grantbow (talk) 11:10, 9 March 2025 (UTC)