Is it harmful to sleep (fall asleep) with headphones

We decided to try for ourselves a new genre on GeekTimes - a post-question, and the question is not idle: is it dangerous or not to fall asleep in the headphones?


From the moment of the “ presentation ” of the headphones for sleep, one way or another, there were questions and critical reviews about the fact that “sleeping with headphones is very harmful”.

What do people say about this?

The network, as always, is full of experts who live on forums, replies to mail.ru and other reputable sites for many, which to some extent claim, though without reference to anything, that sleeping with headphones is harmful.



It is important to note here that most of the conclusions are presented through the introductory “I think” and its derivatives: “it seems”, “I suppose” and so on. Our local analogue of Quora (where, by the way, a similar question was also asked ), The Questions, where it became customary to look for answers to all questions, tooHe didn’t bypass the topic and appears almost on the first line of the search engine:



And again, “I think, yes, it’s certainly harmful” and “it will definitely be a big minus”. Unpersuasive, but peremptory.

In Russian in 2016, a note was published on the Moscow Medicine portal, where you can also read without reference to research:

Listening to music at bedtime can be detrimental to the quality of sleep.

No studies have yet analyzed the effect of this habit of falling asleep on headphones, but recent studies have shown that using headphones during sleep can interrupt sleep by changing cycles and thus reducing sleep quality. .

Harmfully VS is safe.

The main problem with the answer to this question is probably related to the substitution of concepts: indeed, there is reason to believe that sleeping with headphones is unsafe for several reasons. Even in Western forums in the question-and-answer mode, doctors make the same mistake, confuse the harm and potential danger associated with the fact that a person can listen to a fire alarm or gas leak detector.

It is what it is. You can smother the wire, you can listen to the alarm, thieves, killers. There were quite thrashy cases ( Caution ), but they are all in the category “danger to life, health due to closed ears”.

What is meant by harmful?

In this regard, the question has ripened, and what is meant by "it is harmful to sleep with headphones." Probably, we should answer that this should be interpreted as direct harm to the organs of hearing, caused precisely by the headphones during sleep.

And here, too, some difficulties will arise, because the harm from the headphones is a seemingly obvious thing. But there is no convincing evidence anywhere that when falling asleep with headphones, this harm is done "better."

Yes, listening to music with headphones can negatively affect your hearing, which is proven and obvious. However, not only the noise in the headphones, but also the noise in general is a disastrous thing. Hearing deteriorates faster or slower, judging by research, it will inevitably happen anyway. But in this sense, it turns out that the headphones, the bastards are such, not only at night but also during the day are equally dangerous.

Music for sleep

The effect of music on the body seems to be proven. Moreover, she can heal and kill .

It's difficult to talk about music therapy, of course. However, there are some indirect indications that sleep music does exist. It is necessary to understand this in such a way that some frequencies tune a person in a certain way, contribute to relaxation, relaxation, which facilitates the process of immersion in sleep.

At the already mentioned forum, they are inclined to conclude thisand doctors. And in more detailed studies, you can find the conclusion that music helps in this way: by reducing pain in fibromyalgia, which provoke insomnia, help the patient fall asleep. Or as a prophylaxis for the same insomnia - with post-traumatic stress disorder.

At the same time, it is worth noting that no specific indication of how to listen to music in headphones or not is not necessary. The influence of relaxing classical music has a positive effect on students' sleep, and again - in headphones or not?

In the author's materiallists some problems that may occur when using headphones. Among the already mentioned dangers of suffocation, a difficult reaction to an alarm, there is skin necrosis, for example, however, with reference to a women's magazine. In this case, we are talking about the type of headphones "gag". It is noteworthy that, as an alternative and a way to safely listen, the same author cites just the headband headphones, including SleepPhones.



In other words,

As a result, leading, in fact, to the question, it is necessary to note here that:

• Headphones during sleep can be dangerous, but harm to health for the hearing aid is unproven.
• Harm to hearing from the use of headphones at night and during the day is equivalent.
• Music can be recommended as a non-pharmacological tool to facilitate sleep.
• You can probably listen to it both with headphones and without them - the advantage of headphones is that this will not interfere with others.

In this regard, the question, what do you think?