The document discusses ideas for avoiding brightness while sleeping that could be disrupting sleep. It lists 100 ideas which include closing curtains, removing light sources, wearing eye masks, going to bed earlier, meditation, sleeping in dark rooms or closets, covering windows, and moving locations to avoid light exposure at night. The ideas range from practical solutions to imaginative notions like switching off the sun or becoming light oneself.

1. Go TEAM:
BLINDED BY THE
LIGHT
The idea is to find a solution to avoid the brightness while you are sleeping.
This brightness can come from multiple sources like sun, reading lamp or you own
smart ideas.
IDEAS FROM BRAINSTORMING
1. Close the curtain completely
2. If the light source comes from an artificial light, remove the light fuses
3. To make switches that works depending on the hour
4. Sleep only at night
5. Sleep with an mask
6. Dressing your eyes with an optometric mask.
7. Sleep with your eyes shut!
8. Go to bed early so you wake with the sun. Rosters do this, why can´t you!
9. If the “light” comes from a thought, write it down so you can “turn off” your
mind.
10. If the light comes from a good idea, remember it for the next day.
11. If the light comes from a great idea, get up and take action! You can sleep
when you're dead.
12. Keep track of all those nocturnal “bright ideas” using your voice activated
“notes” on your smartphone (hence, the name).
13. It the light is keeping you from sleeping, it means that you aren’t THAT tired!
So get your lazy bum out of bed! Once you are out of bed, that light won´t
seem that bright!
14. Simply turn the light off (either literally or figuratively).
15. Get used to sleeping with light (this actually works).
16. Make sure you are really tired so the light won't affect you.
17. Put cucumbers on your eyes, you will reduce swelling while blocking the
light out. Might as well put a cleaning mask on while you're at it!
18. Wear dark sunglasses.
19. If you can't beat them, join them. Read if the light is not letting you sleep.
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2. 20. If you share your sleeping quarters with another, let him, her, them face the
light source.
21. Sleep in a room without light or windows.
22. Put your head under the blanket
23. Eliminate the holes from the blinds.
24. Choose a room with a right orientation to avoid the sun directly.
25. Sleep in a capsule without light, and no sound.
26. Put your elbow on your eyes
27. Sleep into your bedmate arms/on your bedmate chest
28. Switch off the sun
29. Make your bed running so fast to follow the night time over the different
zones
30. Make your bed running faster than the light speed
31. Solar Eclipse
32. Sleep into the cupboard
33. Put your head below the pillow
34. Sew your eyes
35. Put bands aid on your eyes
36. Use a burka, as afghan women.
37. Use a ku klux klan hat
38. Use laser glasses to fight the light
39. Hide the light, putting a black sheet on top of the lamp.
40. Put water on the fire light
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3. 41. Blow up the candle light
42. Paint your windows bedroom in black
43. Put some wood pieces in the windows bedroom
44. Go to the further planet of the solar system
45. Get your hair grow to hide your eyes
46. Call firemen to put out the fire which wakes you up
47. Call the evil to switch off the paradise light
48. Make a tree grow in front of your window
49. Ask your surgeon to make you blind!
50. Make your own opaque curtain sewing
51. Go to live to la Cañada Real (slums where there is no electricity)
52. Contact god/superman to make him/her to switch off the sunlight
53. Be the master of the world yourself to be able to switch off the sunlight
54. Dig your bedroom/build your house into the ground
55. Go to live/sleep in a cave
56. Ask your cat to sleep on your face
57. Sleep under your bed
58. Leave the astronauts steal the moon and stars for their research programs
59. Draw a night time painting to make the protagonist sleeping without light
60. Blow up the electricity command in the neighborhood
61. Take a noisy action y go the jail to sleep in a cell
62. Go to a hypnosis session
63. Be a bat to have wings to hid your eyes from the light
64. Put a blanket on the window
65. Go to live to Iceland in winter time
66. Act like you are dead, just sleep in a coffin
67. Erase the light source from the scene like a cartoon
68. Meditation to be calm, relaxed
69. Turn up your mind as a TV station
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4. 70. Switch off the TV set
71. Remove the TV set from the bedroom
72. Sleep in the closet
73. Don t wear fluorescent pyjamas
74. Make some exercise
75. Smosh your face in the pillow
76. Sandwich your head between two pillows
77. Don't pay the electricity bill
78. Read till you cannot keep your eyes open
79. Put a blanket on the sun
80. Ask the sun to take a day off
81. Fire the sun
82. Marry a vampire
83. Marry a caveman
84. If you are a book, close yourself
85. If you are a can of coke, go to the fridge
86. If your coke, stay in your can
87. If you are a Kleenex, hope none get sick, so you stay in your box
88. If you are a pair of shoes, hope you go out of style, so you stay in the closet
89. If you are a letter, stay in your envelop
90. If you play hide and seek, hid in a good dark place, so no one can find you
91. If you are a carrot, stay underground
92. Be a mermaid so you can stay on the deep dark depth in the ocean
93. If you are a song, be a cheesy song, so nobody will play you
94. Act like a tornado is coming, lay in the bath tub with the mattress over you
95. Convert yourself into light!
96. Sleep in the fridge.
97. Sleep in the freezer, like Walt Disney
98. Kill all fire flies.
99. Turn off the street lights
100. Live in a safe place to avoid the light from the bombs exploding.
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