Comments on: ReadingHacks poll: Does reading make you sleepy? http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/ tips, tools, and gadgets for people who love to read Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jonathan http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/comment-page-1/#comment-80 jonathan Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:52:33 +0000 http://readinghacks.com/?p=76#comment-80 Funny. It never occurred to me that it might be connected to bedtime stories as a child. Our toddler has regular bedtime stories, but also regular stories right through the day. While I'm off work at the moment, she's also taken to asking for a book before she even gets out of bed in the morning. Funny. It never occurred to me that it might be connected to bedtime stories as a child.

Our toddler has regular bedtime stories, but also regular stories right through the day. While I’m off work at the moment, she’s also taken to asking for a book before she even gets out of bed in the morning.

]]> By: Elana Bowman http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Elana Bowman Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:53:28 +0000 http://readinghacks.com/?p=76#comment-79 That's interesting! I think generally speaking most people read books to their children from a very young age before bedtime. So we associate books with bedtime, when you're tired and generally some children fall asleep mid reading. Even at school/kindergarten we had books read to us before nap time. So I think adults carried this on by reading when they are tired just before go to sleep. I think that maybe I'll read to my children one day in the mornings or something just to test this out. Funnily enough I only read in bed when I am really tired and need to sleep but prefer reading every where else and when i am wide awake instead That’s interesting! I think generally speaking most people read books to their children from a very young age before bedtime. So we associate books with bedtime, when you’re tired and generally some children fall asleep mid reading.

Even at school/kindergarten we had books read to us before nap time. So I think adults carried this on by reading when they are tired just before go to sleep.

I think that maybe I’ll read to my children one day in the mornings or something just to test this out. Funnily enough I only read in bed when I am really tired and need to sleep but prefer reading every where else and when i am wide awake instead

]]> By: vetti http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/comment-page-1/#comment-37 vetti Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:41:39 +0000 http://readinghacks.com/?p=76#comment-37 i'm a night owl, but reading has never made me sleepy - in or out of bed. i’m a night owl, but reading has never made me sleepy – in or out of bed.

]]> By: jonathan http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/comment-page-1/#comment-36 jonathan Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:10:46 +0000 http://readinghacks.com/?p=76#comment-36 gizo - I wonder if that is age or parenthood? gizo – I wonder if that is age or parenthood?

]]> By: gizo http://readinghacks.com/2008/08/readinghacks-poll-does-reading-make-you-sleepy/comment-page-1/#comment-35 gizo Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:14:37 +0000 http://readinghacks.com/?p=76#comment-35 Historically, reading keeps me awake. But the stimulus/response of the bed and the low lights is too powerful these days. Historically, reading keeps me awake. But the stimulus/response of the bed and the low lights is too powerful these days.

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