However , once the sun has risen , then you still want to get outside and view sunlight . Some of you will wake up before the sun comes out . And if you're asking whether or not turning on artificial lights can replace sunlight at those hours .
However , if the sun is a little bit brighter and a little bit higher in the sky , sometimes it could be painful to look at . So the way to get this sunlight viewing early in the day is to look toward the sun . If it's too bright to look at directly , well , then don't do that .
But at night , even a little bit of artificial light can really mess up your so called circadian , your 24 hour clocks and all these mechanisms that we're talking about . So if you wake up before the sun is out and it's still dark , please turn on as many bright artificial lights as you possibly can or need . But then get outside once the sun is out on cloudy days , you especially need to get outside .
There's so many different wavelengths of light coming from the sun and they are bright enough that they will trigger the mechanisms that you want triggered at this early time of day . So try and get outside ideally within the first five minutes of waking or maybe it's 15 minutes , but certainly within the first hour after waking , I wanna share with you three critical things about this tool of morning sunlight viewing . First of all , this is not some wu biology thing .
This is grounded in the core of our physiology . There are literally hundreds if not thousands of quality peer reviewed papers showing that light viewing early in the day is the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness throughout the day . And it has a powerful positive impact on your ability to fall and stay asleep at night .
