Sleep like Dracula

Dr. Andrew Huberman has instilled the fear of god in me. Every evening, I dim every light in our house, scuttling around like a poor man's Dracula, avoiding blue light.

After all, as Huberman has so loudly proclaimed, blue light after sunset destroys your sleep. It makes it harder to go to bed, affects your sleep quality, and alters your circadian rhythm.

I think we all know this intuitively. I've always found that on camping trips or when the power goes out, I often fall asleep earlier and feel more relaxed. But I've really embraced dimming all the lights in our house in the evening over the last few years and found it helps my sleep a ton.

The one type of light that doesn't affect your sleep, however, is red light, and I recently found these great little Helight red light pucks.

As for those moments where I need to watch a movie with my girlfriend, I don these insanely fashionable blue light blocking glasses.

So, if you want to embrace your inner Dracula and sleep like the dead, go grab a few red light pucks, slap on a pair of blue light blocking glasses, and let yourself drift off.

I think you'll be surprised by how much of a difference it makes. (And just how embarrassed your partner will be, even though nobody else is around.)

Originally published in the Are you insane? issue of Never Enough.