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Winter is coming.... To maintain your sleep quality and avoid SAD and depression, it is highly recommended you get lots of bright EARLY morning sunlight. "Research has found the “optimal” dose of morning light to be 30 minutes of exposure to light that is 10,000 lux in intensity. “Ten thousand lux is a lot of light,” Desan says. “That’s like being outdoors in July.” To account for the brightness (or lack) of the winter sun for those in North America, you’ll need to spend more time outdoors to get enough light: 60 minutes at 5,000 lux (the equivalent to brightness of a cloudy day) or 120 minutes at 2,500 lux (five times the strength of bright office light)." IF you cant always make it outside in the winter, you can temporarily use a special SAD light. Most of them suck though because they give you an unnatural and unbalanced light spectrum. I'll link to my favorite below.

FORGET YOUR BLUE BLOCKERS ON VACATION? But don't want to make people think you are a psycho by acting like a hermit and staying in with the lights off every night? Get tons of early morning sun. Bright morning sunshine can counter the bad circadian disrupting related effects from being exposed to artificial light at night. It doesn't fully protect you but it can reduce the damage. "Our results indicate that bright blue-enriched morning light stabilizes circadian phase, and it could be an effective counterstrategy for poor lighting during the day and also light exposure at the wrong time, such as in the late evening."