Study Links Insomnia To Fear Of The Dark
NEW YORK (CBS NEWS) - Do you have a hard time sleeping? Are you afraid of the dark? Researchers now think there's a link between the two problems.
More than half of the college undergraduate students involved in a new study who reported not being able to sleep also were shown to have a fear of the dark, measured by blink responses to sudden noise in dark and bright surroundings. Good sleepers were able to adjust to the noises, but bad sleepers were severely affected by it.
"The poor sleepers were more easily startled in the dark compared with the good sleepers," Taryn Moss, the study's lead author and a psychology researcher at Ryerson University in Toronto, said in the press release. "As treatment providers, we assume that poor sleepers become tense when the lights go out because they associate the bed with being unable to sleep. Now we're wondering how many people actually have an active and untreated phobia."
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