Dr Lindsay Browning
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Nobody should have a clock that they can see from their bed because when you wake up in the middle of the night, if you're awake enough to realise you're awake, we don't need to know what the time is.
Screens have been promoted as the enemy of sleep because they are stimulating before bed and the light from them.
But the situation, the science, is a little bit more complex than that.
Sure.
Well, I did a degree in psychology, a degree in neuroscience and a doctorate specifically studying and treating insomnia.
And I didn't go into it because I had a particular difficulty with sleep.
But when I was studying insomnia, I met so many people who massively struggled with their sleep and I realised what a huge issue it is.
And then that was 20 years ago.
And I've just been working in the world of sleep, helping people ever since, just because it's such an important issue.
So 20 years ago, sleep wasn't something people worried about.
Sleep was something that people kind of boasted about how little they got.
And over the last five to 10 years, especially, people have really embraced how important sleep is, which from my point of view is fantastic because sleep is so massively important.
But along with that has come kind of the other side, which is almost an obsession with sleep and a worry about sleep.
And the more information we learn about how important sleep is, the more that some people can get suddenly really stressed and concerned and thinking, oh, my goodness, my sleep isn't good enough.
If I don't sleep well, I'm going to get dementia, diabetes, heart disease, all this stuff that then they're so stressed about their sleep that paradoxically they start having insomnia and not sleeping because they've put such pressure on themselves.
So it's a real balancing act.
Yes, we want to explain to people that sleep is fantastic and that you should care about it, but not to worry them so much that it sends them off into a spiral that makes them start not sleeping because they're so worried about it.
So it's really important, I think, that people understand that sleep is really individual because eight hours gets banded a lot.
I read that in loads of magazines, newspapers.
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