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I live in the Yukon, I’ve never felt better than when I go to bed with the sun, even in winter. When your body sleeps for 14+ hours, it’s telling you something

• mindslight 3y ago
  Well I wouldn't have guessed you are in one place! That's completely different from my experience with myself. I can go to bed hours early, still fall asleep pretty quickly, and essentially just sleep through to the waking time of my latent schedule. Contrast with staying up an extra few hours will cause my waking time to move forward about 20-30 minutes. The main way I can move my schedule earlier is to make myself get up earlier, and then stop myself from taking a nap in the middle of the day. That's of course modulo artificial light and being indoors. I haven't really tried to reproduce the effect of camping indoors, but I think the exposure, temperature change, and nature's activities contribute more than the light level. Indoors, I can generally continue sleeping just fine with direct sun on my eyelids.
• Baeocystin 3y ago
  When I lived in Montana, I definitely slept more hours in the winter. Kind of enjoyed it, too. Those long evenings of nothing much but staring in to the fire (house was heated with a Franklin stove) were good for the soul.
• hotnfresh 3y ago
  I’ve played with eliminating nighttime lighting (aside from candles) and after-dark screens period, and can confirm, it puts one’s “clock” closer to where it should be. Which shouldn’t be surprising. It is hard to keep up. If I were dictator of the world I’d experiment with hibernating the whole economy a bit in the Winter. Three months or so of 5-6 hour workdays.