I banned that phone from my bedroom and this is what happened

Do you know that feeling, scrolling on your phone in bed for so long that you can barely fall asleep afterwards? I did it way too often. He did too. Sometimes I saw us from a helicopter perspective and then I felt ashamed. How uncozy must this look? What is happening to us?

It has been proven that young people have less sex because they prefer to spend the last minutes of their day on their phone rather than with each other. How sad is that? Technology and people. We can't live without it, but sometimes we can't live with it either. I can still hear my mother shouting in my ear: ‘Don't you know how much radiation that phone emits in your bed at night?’ As a teenager, I didn't care, but now I do. I sleep worse when my phone is next to my head. More restless. And then suddenly he suggested it: come on, throw that phone out of the room and wake up old-fashioned with an alarm clock. Brilliant.

The plan was executed, but then I wanted the Rolls-Royce of alarm clocks. It became the Wake-up Light from Philips. That alarm clock is made to help you sleep better and god, I can't live without it now. Falling asleep better and waking up refreshed, that sounds like music to the ears, right? That's what I thought. I did become a little skeptical when I read on the packaging that you can ‘simulate sunrise and sunset’ with the light lamp.

Yeah, right.

Until I lay in bed with my eyes closed, Sander slowly let the ‘sun’ rise, and I heard the birds chirping in my room. This is the shit. Waking up every day as if it's a summer Sunday morning and the sun is shining in your face from your window. Instant happiness. You have a choice of seven relaxing tunes (you can seriously wake up in the woods, on the farm, or awaken in your zen villa in Bali) and suddenly I wonder why on earth I had an alarm clock on my phone all those years. A better night's sleep, more fireworks in the bedroom, and waking up in the morning with the birds chirping. I mean: I would know if I were you.