Struggling with insomnia? There are many things you can do to become a better sleeper: drink less coffee and alcohol, avoid blue light rays, stay active during the day, and even take some melatonin supplements like Ginkgo biloba. Have you ever tried music as a sleep-inducing drug?<\/p>\n
Many psychological studies show that just playing relaxing music at bedtime can alleviate sleep disorders for many people.<\/p>\n
In 2007 psychologist Lazlo Harmat gathered 94 students having poor sleep and divided them into two groups. One listened to the collection of relaxing classical music<\/a> (like The Most Relaxing Classical, Edited by Virgin, 1999) for 45 minutes every night at bedtime for 3 weeks. Similarly, people in the other group were asked to listen to the audiobook CD containing 11 hours of short stories.<\/p>\n Maybe the novels by Zsigmond Moricz and 4 other Hungarian writers were not so entrancing. Still, by the end of the study, 30 out of the 35 people in the music group became \u2018good sleepers,\u2019 while the majority in the audiobook group still had problems trying to fall asleep.<\/p>\n It\u2019s already known that sleep disorders may result in tiredness, anxiety, and problems in daytime functioning. Laszlo\u2019s experiment showed that music can effectively regulate blood pressure and decrease depressive symptoms.<\/p>\n Other investigations of beneficial effects of music therapy by Hanser, Suzanne & Thompson, and Larry also support the idea of using slow, repetitive music such as Electronica<\/a> and Ambient<\/a> to enhance deep relaxation or falling asleep.<\/p>\n The main scientific explanation of the sedative effects of \u2018lullabies\u2019 is an ability of heart rate to synchronize with music beat.<\/p>\n Dr. med. Uwe Reinhardt observed a very stable 2:3 synchronization at a musical tempo between 48 and 42 BPM.<\/p>\n Laszlo also noted that sedative music with a slow tempo (42\u201365 BPM) induced relaxation and reduced activity in the \u2018music group.\u2019<\/p>\n So you decided to become a better sleeper with the help of music \u2013 where to start?<\/p>\n Here is Mubert\u2019s 30-minutes relaxing sleep music podcast on YouTube \u2013 optimal bed-time audio session.<\/p>\n But listening to the same track for 3 weeks (that\u2019s how long it usually takes feel the difference) can make you sleep with boredom. That\u2019s why especially for insomniacs, Mubert\u2019s team has created a Sleep Music channel with real-time-generated streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Struggling with insomnia? There are many things you can do to become a better sleeper: drink less coffee and alcohol, avoid blue light rays, stay active during the day, and even take some melatonin supplements like Ginkgo biloba. Have you ever tried music as a sleep-inducing drug? The science of sleep Many psychological studies show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[26,60],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-b2c","tag-healthfitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Positive side-effects<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Tune-up your heart for better sleep<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Keep calm and listen to music<\/strong><\/h2>\n