RE: The Shortest Day Of The Year Is Here - Slightly Brighter Short Films
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Only couple of hours are considered night time this high north and those hours usually aren't even quite dark.
Ohh! Then how do you manage your routines? I think sun has affects on our routines no matter how strict we are with our clocks.
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I don't know. Fine I guess. The lack of light or the lack of darkness affects people differently but people who have lived here longer have gotten used to it better. The bright time is never the same because the day of course constantly either gets few minutes shorter or longer every day depending if your going towards summer or winter so you get used to it. And of course during the summer, if brighter nights (the sun being near the horizon in the night but still visible) are keeping you awake, there's always dark curtains. I have thick black curtains in my bedroom.
I always get more things done in the spring and summer as it's brighter as I'm such a sunlight oriented person. And I don't actually feel tired even if I sleep less. But in the fall and winter I feel like I could go and hibernate. Although I take extra vitamin D and have lights here at my home, for the plants mostly, the darkness outside, lasting 19 hours is really depressing. But fortunately after this day, the day is getting longer, minute by minute.
Inavaiablity of sun light causes a kind of tiredness in our body. Though in Pakistan we don't have this much difference in day and night across the year. The longest day is around 14 hrs, while the shortest is about 10 hrs. This difference has an effect on my level of activity. During winter, I feel irritated by the lack of light as windows are closed unlike summer. I keep the lights on.