[muxxa]

My night time wakings have a very clear and strong association with those periods of time when I’m working on my side-project/startup. The bbc article mentions ‘meditating on your dreams’ as an activity for this time, however I’m likely to have a mind racing with all permutations of technical problems that I’ve evidently not managed to clear from my brain. Does anyone have experience-based advice on whether it’s better to try to do a few hours work at 3am vs. getting out of the bed and e.g. reading fiction (which I believe is the best advice to break the cycle of negative association that can build up if you are lying in bed awake and annoyed)

[kingbirdy]

Personally I find that trying to work at 3am is a bad idea. The backlighting (no matter how much blue-light filtering you have) will wake you up, and even if you solve the problems that are keeping you awake now, you're almost guaranteed to get back in bed with new ones to be thinking about.

[WalterSear]

Fwiw, I put my screen in darkroom mode and use nothing red bulbs in my evening lights.

It's very easy to avoid bluelight while you work. However, as you mention, that's only half the battle.

[xvector]

My issue with this is that warm light encourages melatonin production so I end up dozing whenever I have red light or f.lux/Night Shift/etc on.

[WalterSear]

It doesn't.

I'd hazard you are sleep deprived.

[hinkley]

Nobody ever made a good decision at 3:00 am. Keep away from the codebase please.