This common belief about sleep is a myth, says doctor

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My dad always told me that “one hour of sleep before 12am is worth two hours after 12am”. Whether it was to encourage me to go to bed as a child or to prevent me from staying out all night as a teenager, it was a belief that followed me into adulthood.

But then I became the Sleep Features Editor for Tom’s Guide, and I became slightly more well versed in sleep hygiene than my dad (a web developer). Now, I can call out this ‘fact’ for what it really is. A myth.

But to find out if there are any benefits to a pre-12am bedtime, where the myth came from and what we should actually believe, I asked the experts. Here, Dr Luke Barr board-certified neu