17 Dec 2025 · 3 min
Brian Johnson uses the snow globe metaphor to explain why you should stop stimulating your mind an hour before bed. Blue light and digital inputs keep your brain agitated. Let it settle like snow in a shaken globe, and you'll sleep deeper.
You're listening to Optimize with Bryan Johnson. More wisdom in less time. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another optimize +1. In the last couple ones, we talked about the shattered vase and the power of taking those pieces and making a beautiful new mosaic. Then we practiced the art of precious scars as we chatted about golden repairs. Let's imagine that art sitting on a desk in our dojo studio. We've got the mosaic and that golden seamed vase. And right next to those pieces of art, let's put a snow globe. A snow globe? Yeah. Steven Joseph actually introduced this metaphor in his book on post traumatic growth. He used it in the context of being shaken up after a traumatic event and the fact that it takes time for the metaphorical snow to settle in our lives. But when I imagined that snow globe, the first thing I thought of was our minds and what we often do to them right before we go to bed. Maybe it was because I was prepping for the PM bookend session of our carpe diem module in our Mastery series. We've talked many times about the fact that your day begins the night before you want to create a masterpiece day that starts with waking up nice and early without an alarm feeling all refreshed and ready to rock. Well, turn off your electronics and go to bed early. Seriously, science is unequivocal. All that digital stimulation, both the blue light and the raw inputs right before you go to bed isn't helping the deep and and REM sleep. Cause you know what it's like? It's like shaking a snow globe right before you go to bed. Your brain's all hyped up right when you want it to be relaxed. And that's today's plus one. Let's leave the snow globe alone. Quit shaking it by turning off all your electronic stimulation at least an hour before you go to bed. Remember, sleep. It does a body very good. Let's optymyze ours tonight. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Optymyze with Brian Johnson. To find out more, go to Optimize Me. Hey guys, this is Brian with a quick little P.S. i'm really excited to let you know about an event we're working on. Plan is to make it the premier self optimizing event of 2020. Recalling it, optimize 2020. You the modern hero. Basic idea. Five days, 101 world class luminaries. One million people. You can learn more and get your tickets to the online and offline event at Optimize Me 2020. Again, that's Optimize Me. 2020Hope to see you there.
