There is hardly a single moment when the human brain rests… Even when we are asleep, we feel tired when we say “I can’t dream, sir, let me dream, it wasn’t enough to summarize my owner’s life like a film strip”. We have to sleep in order to resist the stresses of modern life and to rest our tired mind and body. Maybe we resort to only one way for this: listening to music.
Opening the song list prepared for sleep and putting the phone at your bedside, in fact, only allows you to get away from the stressful thoughts, to escape. On the other hand, your brain starts to process the music you listen to and engrave it in your mind. In short, during this behavior that you think relaxes you, your brain gets more tired and your sleep quality decreases.
The songs you listen to while you sleep literally “talk” into your brain: So how?
First, 199 subjects with an average age of 35.9, that is, a member of the Y generation, participate in this research conducted at Baylor University Sleep Laboratory in Texas, USA. As a result of the experiment, they fill out a questionnaire. 33% of these subjects, who listen to popular songs while sleeping, state that the songs they listen to at night or when they wake up in the morning are tangled in their tongue (this condition, popularly known as “tangling”, is also called “earworms”).
- It is also stated that participants who listen to music more in daily life compared to others experience more “earworms” and have lower sleep quality.
In the second stage, this time 50 subjects with an average age of 21.2, that is, a member of the Z generation, are observed in the laboratory environment; Non-verbal, that is, instrumental versions of 3 popular songs are played. Meanwhile, all subjects’ blood oxygen levels, brain waves, breathing patterns, heart rates, eye and body movements throughout the night are monitored. But the result is even worse: They are found to fall asleep later and experience lower sleep efficiency and quality.
The lead author of the study, Psychologist Michael K. Scullin, states that the situation is related to the tendency to produce “repetitive melodies and catchy songs” in the popular music industry, that these types of melodies are easily found in the mind and quickly become the language, and the sleep quality of people who mostly listen to such songs may decrease more. . In summary, listening to popular and familiar songs heard everywhere before going to bed causes our brain to work and our sleep quality to decrease.
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