Besides its potential to help reduce anxiety as well as the negative effects of physical pain a new study suggests that music might serve as a cheap non-pharmaceutical sleep aid for people facing difficulty in getting proper sleep. Sleep loss is a widespread problem and poses serious physical and economic consequences. However there is a lack of systematic data on how widely it is used why people opt for music as a sleep aid or what music works. The study found that music both stimulates sleep and blocks an internal or external stimulus that would otherwise disrupt sleep. The study
