I'll be damned. So everyone doesn't stay up into the wee hours of the morning playing games? It's just gamers? And that makes them tired?
Not to poo poo on anyone's research or anything, but I could have told you that. But this data, which is to be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, gives us some hard numbers and facts.
It turns out that those that game over seven hours a week and those who call their habit a gaming addiction sleep less during the week than other gamers, about an hour less. Those who said gaming inteferes with their sleep lose about 1.6 hours a weeknight. It seems that "excessive gamers" spend less time in bed, have longer sleep latency and shorter REM latency. I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds bad.
So now there's a correlation between hours of games played an sleepiness. And again, I say no sh*t.
*yawn*
[via Science Daily -- thanks, Dexter]
The below image came up when I searched "insomnia" in Google Images.
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11:20 AM on 06.10.2009
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OMG, Scholar! At least I can write off that convention for my taxes. 'Specialists' Rule.
six hours at best sometimes.
When it sleeps, I sleep. When it games, I game. We are one. We are one. We are one...
/skynet
What about the people who don't sleep at all sometimes? are we like the GODS of this new science.
consider myself enlightened.
Also my friend Anna who has insomnia looks a bit like that, short black hair, teddy in hand etc.
And I make straight-As.
Now, though, I actually sleep more. I simply play videogames ALL the time when I'm up! =p
I stayed up till 3AM playing 'Sigma' and just woke up to check my feeds.
I am now going to beat The Emperor.
Thats going to be great, at least for me.
This is the first videogame study that makes perfect sense and actually sounds logical.
Maybe. At least, until they go Tyler Durden on us. Or maybe that's the ultimate goal, who am I to know?