[vundercind]

I’m not doing it anymore. Worked great. Kept it up for a few weeks. Early to bed, slept well. I basically hadn’t done that since I was like 8 years old.

Yes, after dusk. Probably would have allowed a couple hours past dusk in Winter (northern hemisphere). Turns out you (nearly everyone, excepting the few who’d have had insomnia even in a Nebraska farmhouse in 1920) get tired fast with low light and no hyper-stimulus. You can still play musical instruments or play cards or read by candle light or a few other things. But that won’t keep you up until 2AM night after night after night (maybe every now and then).

But god, it’s hard to make that work with any amount of a modern life.

[tomcam]

Thanks tons for these details. Time for me to give it a shot, esp. if playing instruments doesn’t contribute to the problem.