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Does room have to be dark for you to sleep?
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I have an LED strip on the back of the tv on the wall in the bedroom that also acts as a nightlight, and doesn’t bother me. However, I can’t go to sleep or continue sleeping in silence. I have to have something on creating a “white noise”, like a small desktop fan.
It doesn’t have to be dark for me. Several years ago, I fell asleep on a active gun range with Ak47s and other large calibers being fired.
I have tolerance for heat and warmth also but not cold. I feel that the people that have stronger immune systems for cold have Stronger immune systems and tolerances in general. I could be wrong though.
lolol....the 21st century blanket. 😊
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That looks to have the nutritional value of a Chiclet or a Pez. I’ll go with the Pez. 🧐
🤢 Ah so we do have a sick emoji. Nuff' said.
The room SHOULD be dark, quiet and fresh (not cold, definitely not hot). These are the ideal qualities of a bedroom.Does room have to be dated and quiet for you to sleep? Can you sleep well in a room that gets light and is not so quiet?
Why sleeping in a dark room is better for your mental health
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has found a strong link between exposure to low levels of light while sleeping, and depressive symptomswww.google.com
Now, most of the time you will be able to sleep in situations different than ideal, however, when people have trouble sleeping, sometimes simple changes to make the room dark, quiet and fresh, resolve the issue.
In conclussion, it doesn't HAVE to be, but it SHOULD.
Does anyone here cover their heads with a blanket or pillow to sleep for any reason? If so, for what reason?
I can sleep with light in the room, but I prefer it to be blackout dark. I don't even have an alarm clock in my room anymore. If I wake up and want to know the time I just tap the nightstand and my apple watch will light up... now if I could dim that apple watch 'nightstand' brightness setting I'd be happier; but for now I put up with it.
After 21 years in the military, you learn to sleep any time.
... and anywhere.
When I just want to go to sleep on a normal night, I need it to be dark in order to feel rested and refreshed when I wake up. I've often noted on these boards that I'm one of those people that heads upstairs to sleep when I'm like 45 seconds from being out for the count, and how foolish it is to imagine I'll hear much of an audiobook I sometimes still launch with a 45-minute timer!
However, even supposedly unobtrusive things like nightlights in hallways or bathrooms will sometimes wake me in the night or cause me not to drift off to sleep immediately. I don't use little lights like that in my own house unless I have guests. And I draw a curtain in the hallway upstairs against moonlight.. even now that I don't have cats whom that light made totally nuts.
Oddly, noise doesn't particularly bother me. Those audiobooks definitely don't keep me awake. I do wake up when the village fire hall siren here goes off in the middle of the night, but only because that thing is meant to practically wake the dead in a five-mile radius. I never consciously heard sirens racing past my apartment when I lived in Manhattan, although I remember once sitting straight up in bed because some part of my brain interpreted the winding down of a fire truck siren very close to my building in the wee hours once as very much a potential danger sign! It was a car's battery fire.
In New York I did draw heavy drapes in my apartment bedroom at night, after the city installed the kind of street lights I call riot lights, the kind so bright that they made the poor sparrows nesting in the trees on side streets think the sun never did set. I don't know what it does to birds to have to live like that. Poor things, they had no drapes to draw. That level of lighting at night made me crazy until I did buy the draperies.
However, even supposedly unobtrusive things like nightlights in hallways or bathrooms will sometimes wake me in the night or cause me not to drift off to sleep immediately. I don't use little lights like that in my own house unless I have guests. And I draw a curtain in the hallway upstairs against moonlight.. even now that I don't have cats whom that light made totally nuts.
Oddly, noise doesn't particularly bother me. Those audiobooks definitely don't keep me awake. I do wake up when the village fire hall siren here goes off in the middle of the night, but only because that thing is meant to practically wake the dead in a five-mile radius. I never consciously heard sirens racing past my apartment when I lived in Manhattan, although I remember once sitting straight up in bed because some part of my brain interpreted the winding down of a fire truck siren very close to my building in the wee hours once as very much a potential danger sign! It was a car's battery fire.
In New York I did draw heavy drapes in my apartment bedroom at night, after the city installed the kind of street lights I call riot lights, the kind so bright that they made the poor sparrows nesting in the trees on side streets think the sun never did set. I don't know what it does to birds to have to live like that. Poor things, they had no drapes to draw. That level of lighting at night made me crazy until I did buy the draperies.
Does room have to be dated and quiet for you to sleep? Can you sleep well in a room that gets light and is not so quiet?
Why sleeping in a dark room is better for your mental health
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has found a strong link between exposure to low levels of light while sleeping, and depressive symptomswww.google.com
No. My eyes are closed, so it doesn't matter. I also prefer some ambient noise - low volume music or white noise stuff - rain, waves, etc.
I am now well into my sixties, but I have slept with both ears covers from my childhood.
I got on the bus from HK airport into the city yesterday. As you all know HK people are not exactly quiet when they talk and none the less the bus was quite noisy from just a few people talking. The person sitting next to me started snoring within just a few minutes of getting on the bus and this being a noisy double decker bus you could probably have heard him snoring from the second floor to the first floor of the double decker bus. Two things.. I could not figure out how he managed to fall asleep within a few minutes of getting on bus. Fall asleep with all that noise and finally make so much noise snoring while still being able to sleep.
Ah now we're getting down to it. Snoring! Yah that's a noise I don't deal with very well.
People that sleep well are "Sleep Privileged" people.
There should be a special Handicap for them in life!!
Now imagine sitting on a 4 hour plus flight with a 250 lbs man next to you in economy class snoring and breathing on you with each snore. Asides from that the air that came out of him was stronger then the air from the air vents from above the seats 😝
I had my face mask on but was really hoping he would put one on too. The amount of air and noise coming out of him was like out of the blowers the gardeners use. I was literally sitting next to a beast for the second part of my flight. He slept well. Cared nothing about noise, where he was seated, how he was seated or anything else. He literally slept like a beast.
People that sleep well are "Sleep Privileged" people.
There should be a special Handicap for them in life!!
I can understand how people who do regularly have problems getting to sleep --or getting enough good quality sleep-- would long for the ease with which the rest of the world seems to find sleep within minutes when they need it.
I know it's really hard on new parents... I was thinking about that after reading @stylinexpat's post immediately above. Talk about sharing a sleeping space with a beast! An infant's cry is meant to be what it is, a five-alarm-fire kind of noise to summon mama and so a means to survival. But the whole household (or a car, bus, airplane, bank or supermarket!) gets to hear that expert demonstration also. I always tell myself to chill out because I'm not going to hear that kid sceaming on a regular basis for months on end...
Oh, yes, amen to that and you can sing that.
Very much so, cold feet, no sleep, and - even as a child and teenager.
Until my mother developed dementia (and, in the early stages in the grip of dementia she used to wander at night, and worse, had a history of bad falls, a few of which hospitalised her, and one of which - when she hit her head against a radiator when falling off a chair - required several stitches), we always had all of the lights off at night.
However, once she started to roam, - and needed light - but while she was still knew enough to be able to find and use the upstairs restroom at night, - when not demented - we started leaving the upstairs landing light on at all times.
This continued after the carer cam not live with us, as she frequently needed to be able to head into my mother at night, and fumbling for light was such a silly thing to have to do.
So, for a period of around eight years, we have had the upstairs light on at all times, and I have more or less gotten used to it.
These days, although I am now by myself in the house, I leave it on most of the time, and occasionally turn it off.
A heartfelt and profound amen to that.
Even though I am opposed to the death penalty, like the wimpy European I am, the violence of my fantasies when I am anywhere near a prodigious snorer, would give the lie to that.
Now imagine sitting on a 4 hour plus flight with a 250 lbs man next to you in economy class snoring and breathing on you with each snore. Asides from that the air that came out of him was stronger then the air from the air vents from above the seats 😝
You have my deepest and most heartfelt commiserations.
Oh, yes.
Shrieking infants.
The maternal gene must have inexplicably by-passed me, but I never hear a screaming infant on a plane or a train without harbouring brooding thoughts of homicide.
That is freaking awesome!!!
For me, pitch black and cold. I have all the lights off, black out curtains, and any of the led lights from anything in the room are covered with electrical tape. My alarm clock has a setting where it goes pitch black also. Oh and I wear a sleep mask to make it that much darker.