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Title: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: simonhu81292 on February 19, 2010, 11:32:27 pm
i am not sure if this is a stupid question
but are there any harms sleeping with a mobile phone next to you
thanks !!
 ;)
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: jaja on February 19, 2010, 11:36:43 pm
i hope not...cause i do that too..
But it's not nxt to me, but on the desk close to my bed
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: stonecold on February 19, 2010, 11:39:23 pm
i sleep with mine under my pillow because it's my alarm.  i don't think that an iphone is very dangerous judging by the fact that it barely ever has any signal available on it anyway lol. :P
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: superflya on February 19, 2010, 11:46:34 pm
^^ same, if there were any effects i would've experienced it by now :P
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: simonhu81292 on February 20, 2010, 12:12:12 am
lol... i use it as my alarm as well... but if is out of arms reach ... i won't be able to hear it ..
so i put it next to my pillow ...
 ;D
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: littlebecc on February 20, 2010, 12:14:23 am
Yes...it gives you aids.

And then you die.

(dundundun)
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: stonecold on February 20, 2010, 12:14:23 am
^agreed.  the amount of times i have slept through my alarm lol!  so frustrating!!!
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: stonecold on February 20, 2010, 12:15:13 am
rofl, we posted at the EXACT same time bec :P
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: littlebecc on February 20, 2010, 12:17:06 am
TWINS??
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: stonecold on February 20, 2010, 12:39:28 am
i always wanted a sister :P
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: QuantumJG on February 20, 2010, 08:47:08 am
I sleep with my mobile next to me and I glow a healthy green at night. But seriously I doubt that there are any effects from sleeping with your phone near you.

i always wanted a sister :P

NO YOU DO NOT!

I have two twin sisters and they are constantly fighting and I must get into a one sided argument (that they win) about anything. If the loungeroom TV is too loud for them, they will turn it down, if they want to use my laptop for the Internet right now, they will. How is this, they wouldn't just stay quiet for my year 12 exam period so I would have to study and put up with them fighting.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: brightsky on February 20, 2010, 09:08:17 am
I think perhaps placing any electronic device in your bedroom is bad. There was this hype on A Current Affairs about placing a television in your bedroom, or even a fridge, as some people do. There was also some news story about a truck driver getting cancer near his ear and blaming it on mobile phones.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: teebagger* on February 20, 2010, 09:34:34 am
Idk about sleeping but I once watched this thing on 60 minutes talking about how there's been a huge increase in people getting brain tumours now that mobile phones are more widely used and to avoid/decrease the chance of a brain tumour developing, you should always put your phone on loudspeaker or something.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: Gloamglozer on February 20, 2010, 10:13:37 am
I think perhaps placing any electronic device in your bedroom is bad. There was this hype on A Current Affairs about placing a television in your bedroom, or even a fridge, as some people do. There was also some news story about a truck driver getting cancer near his ear and blaming it on mobile phones.

But it's "A Current Affairs"...  Can you even trust some of the "research" that they do?
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: squance on February 20, 2010, 10:16:45 am
I used to sleep with my mobile next to me. For some reason, it affected my sleep.
Recently, I have placed my phone on the table near my bed (so the phone is about 1 meter away from my bed). I have been able to sleep ok :)
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: appianway on February 20, 2010, 10:45:26 am
I leave my phone around a metre from where I sleep...
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: Visionz on February 20, 2010, 11:27:51 am
lol. In the home forum menu it says last reply in "Sleeping with your m..." and I immediately assumed mum. ha
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: QuantumJG on February 20, 2010, 11:40:34 am
I think perhaps placing any electronic device in your bedroom is bad. There was this hype on A Current Affairs about placing a television in your bedroom, or even a fridge, as some people do. There was also some news story about a truck driver getting cancer near his ear and blaming it on mobile phones.

But it's "A Current Affairs"...  Can you even trust some of the "research" that they do?

Yeah it's 'pop(ular)-news' and a lot of those stories are just to stir things up. Plus it wasn't really a discussed issue in my physics classes.

A mobile phone would emit very low power microwave radiation and by using the phone occassionally you will be fine. Being near the radio towers would be a hazard, since the microwaves are much more intense.

Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: physics on February 20, 2010, 01:14:49 pm
radiation i believe...i have an ALARM clock as my ALARM :)...but its too far away so i ahve to get up and turn it off which means i'm already up...
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: simonhu81292 on February 20, 2010, 03:46:10 pm
one meter away from the phone is pretty far for me ...
i can only hear like inside the 30cm range when i am sleeping ... then i will wake up
lol  ::)
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: darkphoenix on February 21, 2010, 12:36:27 am
I normally sleep with it near my bed somewhat. (within an arms reach)
Title: Re: Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....
Post by: Fyrefly on February 21, 2010, 02:11:27 am

There doesn't seem to be a solid consensus... Wikipedia's got a pretty good overall summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health