Coaching practices for Dim Lights Before Bed

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I have every light in the house blazing right up until I climb into bed, and then I lie there wide awake wondering why my body hasn’t gotten the message that it’s nighttime.
• I’m wired at bedtime and lie there unable to drop off, and I keep my whole house lit up bright right until I climb into bed
• I sit under bright overhead lights and screens right up until I crawl into bed, and then I’m surprised I don’t feel sleepy
• I fuss with night mode on my phone but my whole place is lit up like noon right until I climb into bed
• I’m staring at a bright screen right up until I close my eyes and then I lie there not even tired, and I’m starting to think all that late light is the reason it takes me an hour to fall asleep.

Practices that may help

1. Dim lights for the 60 minutes before bed
   Drop overall light intensity in your home in the last hour before sleep to let melatonin rise undisturbed.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
2. Avoid bright overhead light in the 2 hours before bed
   Bright light after ~9 pm suppresses melatonin and shifts your clock later — dim the environment instead.
   Morning Light Anchoring
3. Dim light in the evening
   Lower light intensity in the last hours before bed so the clock can wind down.
   Circadian Rhythm Optimization
4. Dim your evening light
   Lower overall light intensity at night — the lever that actually moves your clock.
   The Digital Sunset
5. Set a screen curfew 60-90 minutes before sleep
   All screens off 60-90 minutes before intended sleep time — including television.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
6. The Digital Sunset
   A "digital sunset" is winding down screens and bright light in the evening to protect sleep. The strongest part of the case is light timing — bright light at night delays your clock and keeps you alert — plus the simple fact that engaging content and late scrolling displace sleep. The popular blue-light-glasses fix, by contrast, has weak and mixed evidence, so this hub leans on the levers that actually hold up.
7. View sunset light to buffer against evening bright-light damage
   Low-angle evening light recalibrates the retina and reduces how severely bright indoor light suppresses melatonin.
   Morning Light Anchoring
8. Counterbalance with morning light
   Pair the evening sunset with bright morning light to keep the clock anchored.
   The Digital Sunset
9. Protect the evening light-fast to accelerate clock recovery
   Dim all light sources aggressively in the two hours before your target bedtime to help the clock arrive where you need it.
   Sleep Debt and Social Jetlag: Recovery Strategies
10. Set a screen cutoff time
    Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
    The Digital Sunset

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