Sleep Tight: How Dark Is Your Room?

You’ve got a bedroom that can easily be called a sanctuary, with a gorgeous bed and comfortable mattress. Still, after a night of sleep, you feel that you’re not 100% revived. Take a look at your windows. Spacious and bright? Letting the light come into your room? Well, well! It is good for day time, but for a night you need to treat them right.

The human body is a biological machine, strictly connected to the day-and-night cycles. Daylight signals to us that it is time to wake and work, and it has power over our brains. Modern lifestyle and the invention of the light bulb has changed a lot in the routine of the modern human. However, to feel healthy, happy and to be productive and full of energy, one should sync into the ideal natural rhythm of sleep and daytime alertness.

Whether you live in a thriving metropolis, or in a house close to the road, odds are your window lets plenty of ambient light and sounds in during the night hours. There are ways to keep your bedroom dark for a better night’s sleep. The FurntureCart team collected a few major disturbances stealing your good sleep.

1. Window Treatment

First, let’s start with your windows. Hang window treatments that will give enough darkness to feel that you have plunged into your own kingdom of sleep. Seal out unnatural light as much as possible by means of curtains and blinds. When awaken, get out into direct sunlight to receive a healthy dose of vitamin D and wake up in full. It is crucial to have only natural light in your bedroom to feel right.

2. Devices Off

Okay, done with windows. Hey, what’s that small light breaking the darkness on your nightstand? The blue light from our devices keeps us up. The short-wavelength spectrum of that light influences our internal “clock”. The same light comes from energy-saving bulbs, phones, laptops, tablets, delaying melatonin release. Switch night shift light on starting from the evening and let your body slowly feel a natural sleep. During night hours of sleep, it is better to keep your devices out of the room, or turned off.

3. Close That Door

Still, feel slight anxiety? Lights and sounds from other rooms disturb you? Keep the door of your bedroom closed. If you share your home with family members, partner, or roommates, seal out the light from neighboring rooms by keeping the bedroom door closed. Turn off the lights in the hallway to ensure the house is as dark as it could be. Tune in the good night’s sleep and stay healthy and happy during the daytime!