Can Videogames Reduce Stress? | Uratex Blog

If you’d ask any young adult between the ages of 15 to 23 about two immediate yet satisfying luxuries that they’d prefer to have, it would most likely be videogames and sleep – especially among guys. I mean, I wouldn’t blame them if they come up with those answers since they’re both pleasurable and fulfilling. In this day and age of technology, coupled with the advancement and increasingly rapid pace of life, living gets even more marked by stress. Videogames are used as a form of escape from the impending reality of this postmodern age, and sleep is used to compensate for all the workload that dominates your hours. But is there a link between videogames and sleep?

Well, individually splitting the two activities, sleep is a need but the same time a luxury. With it, you escape from stress, though it’s something that becomes harder and harder to do. Now, videogames aren’t a need but it’s hard to do without thinking of whatever advantages it may give you. Throughout the years, it has been proven by scientific studies that it improves eye-hand coordination, mental reflexes, alertness, and even problem-solving abilities. But with regards to sleep, can videogames contribute to give you those “Z’s” by lessening stress and therefore facilitating sleep?

Thinking about it, technology’s effects on sleep has been mostly for the worst – including videogames. They have been rightly branded as one of the many distractions from sleep, and since playing videogames stimulates brain activity, it leads you away from getting slumber. It’s not looking good if we view videogames and sleep directly in that sense. But what has videogames to do with lowering stress?

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