Sun and sleep

[tripvanParticipant 193]

Grew up in a household on the western facing part of a hill. This meant that the morning sun for me was never that strong, and always later than the sunrise, so throughout my childhood I chronically never kept a regular waking up hour.

These days after finishing work around midnight most nights, I have found it incredibly difficult to fall asleep and wake up at any reasonable hour. But that all changed when I moved into an apartment with a eastern facing windows.

I have discovered that by:
– Only going to bed when tired
– Forcing myself to wake up at 8am every morning, no matter how late I stay up the night before
– Upon waking up, make my coffee and sit and rotate on my computer chair in the morning sun on my laptop

I have been able to completely change the way I approach the day, and it is like starting off on the right foot. Hell, I have even been developing a slight tan, and this is something that I have never pursued as I bought into the skin cancer mythos hook line and sinker. It just feels great, and although I have been taking supplemental Vit D for years there is something special that the sun can give us. It’s almost as if my skin eats it up. I feel like I am resetting my biological clock every morning, and I tend to get a lot of work done on the laptop as I comfortably enjoy the beginning of the day.

Grab a coffee, get your eyes out of the mancave, and soak it up for a while. It’s all good.

[WallyParticipant]

Awesome advice. I love taking the dog for a walk in the morning, nothing like seeing the sun come up to get the day started.

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[RoyDalParticipant]

I’ve been doing this for years. When it is dark out, I use strong — really strong — artificial light to get my brain in gear. It’s a great cure for the “holiday blues” I’ve found.

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[Tiga KParticipant 1693]

Light therapy helped me get over insomnia I had in high school. Bright light in the morning, less light at night basically. One cool thing you can check out if you use your computer late at night is a free program called f.lux:
https://justgetflux.com
It tries to mimic the sun and adjust the amount of blue light coming from your computer at night. It helped me.

[hollowtipsParticipant 681]

Sun is incredibly important and most people don’t realize it. It affects how happy you feel, you’re energy levels, your metabolism and is a natural non ingestible form of vitamin D that is literally free. I think with our busy lives we’re always in buildings and never soaking up this nutrient enough, especially myself being darker complexion and require a considerably greater amount.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Nearly everyone in North America that has a snowy winter has a vitamin D deficiency. Get it tested.
I am prescribed to take 50ooo IU of D3 once per week. I take the OTC version and Ill get rechecked in a couple of months.

This is not medical advice.

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