Blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought
humanbioscience.org
humanbioscience.org
Now at night I turn off most of my lights, dim the ones I keep on, turn on a lot of light only as needed, and use a laptop/phone/e-reader. Such an arrangement also I think leads to you naturally engaging in less stimulating things at night. I'm trying to replace my light fixtures with ones that aren't as insanely bright and blue as a lot of modern LED light fixtures are.
I'm also trying starting off my mornings my staring at intimidating arrays of monitors while shining a very bright SAD lamp into my face with my window blinds drawn.
I can't really tell if things are working yet, or if it's just a placebo, but I feel sleepier.
They produce a non-flickering warm glow that is way more relaxing than a bluer "daylight" bulb, at least for us. They are somewhere around $10 a bulb, but have significantly increased the cozy factor of our house. We run dimmers in all of our hangout areas, and bring the brightness way down.
The article argues that twilight is bluer than daylight, and therefore tells our bodies to get ready for sleep, however I would argue that warm diffused light tells my brain that it's after twilight, like cavemen around a fire at night.
Mice are nocturnal.
Anecdotally I've noticed I fall asleep significantly faster with these "reduce blue light" apps on all my devices so I'm hesitant to start uninstalling them...