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Not getting enough sleep at night? May be your smartphone is to be blamed for it.

Yes, you smartphone could ruin your sleep big time and how. Well, smartphones emit a kind of blue light that cons your brain to mistake night for day, keeping you up and awake all through.

To ensure a good night sleep, switch of your smart phones and tabs and leave it in another room or away from your bed.

"One of the best biological cues we have to what time of day it is is light. And it turns out that blue light in particular is very effective at basically predicting when morning is," Brian Zoltowski from the American Chemical Society was quoted as saying in media reports.

In the evening, the red light signals your body to get ready for bedby interacting with the protein called melanopsin in cells deep inside your eyes.

"When the light hits this protein, these cells send a signal to the 'master clock' of the brain that dictates when we wake and when we get sleepy," Zoltowski explained.

On encountering blue light, these cells sends a 'wake up' signal instead, messing up with your goodnight sleep.

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