What Are The Benefits Of Sleep Masks?

Sleep masks are excellent at helping you to get a better night's sleep. Even if you turn off all the lights in your room, you'll likely still have a few LEDs from charging electronics and things like that. If your partner walks by you while you're asleep, the change in shadows can also cause you to wake up prematurely.

Sleep masks are sometimes saddled with stereotypes that they’re feminine or frivolous when in reality they’re a useful sleep aid that more people should probably be utilizing.

So what do these masks help you do?

Most importantly

They improve your sleep quality.

The primary reason that those scientists say you need darkness for good sleep is actually evolutionary. Humans—and our pre-human ancestors—are naturally diurnal, meaning we’re awake during the day and sleep at night. For thousands of years, before electric lights allowed us to keep working or socializing late into the evening, humans naturally slept while it was dark and were awake during the day. Our brains are hard-wired into associating darkness with sleep, and they produce more melatonin (the hormone that controls our sleep and wake cycles) when they sense an absence of light.

They might help your insomnia

Because our brains associate darkness with sleep, it may be possible to utilize a sleep mask in muting the “noise” (stress, anxiety, excitement, etc.) in our brains that’s keeping us up at night. Sleep masks also make it impossible for you to open your eyes and look at the temptations and distractions around your room or at your alarm clock, which sleep scientists say should be out of sight from your sleeping position anyway.

They’re safer than medication or alcohol.

A lot of people who have trouble sleeping use sleeping pills or self-medicate with alcohol in order to get some rest. But pharmaceutical sleeping aids—even non-prescription ones—can be habit-forming or come with side effects. And alcohol not only comes with the same risks as sleeping pills, but it also disrupts your sleep cycle and has a negative impact on the overall quality of your rest.

Sleeping masks are a great investment and an easy way to improve your sleeping habits and quality of sleep. You can get your own sleeping mask for really cheap at

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Start getting the quality sleep you deserve today.

Source: https://sleepopolis.com/blog/benefits-of-sleep-masks/

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