I've been sleeping better since I started making a point to avoid looking at my bedroom clock if I wake up during the night.

@MLE_online 100%. I even covered the clock on the oven, which you can't turn off, so that I don't see it by accident if I go to get a glass of water.

Knowing that it's 01:52 can only cause anxiety.

@johnnydecimal I have occasionally thought about getting one of those clocks that chimes the time, but I know that would be even worse because I wouldn't be able to ignore it by closing my eyes

@MLE_online You know what I'd like, and I know someone who could probably build it, and that's you.

I go to bed and this 'clock', which is under my bed, emits the faintest, very diffuse, red glow. Barely perceptible.

At around 04:00 (for me -- this is configurable), the glow starts to shift to the yellow.

It transitions through yellow to green as we approach 06:00. By which time, here, birds are singing.

@johnnydecimal I think those exist and they call them sunrise clocks, unless you mean something different than that

@MLE_online I want mine _way_ more subtle. I don't want it to wake me up: the intent is that I can half lean off the side of the bed and, just by the hue, tell whether it's:

– Red: the middle of the night. Go back to sleep.
– Amber-ish: ~ooh~ if you're awake you ~could~ get away with getting up now, like it's not absurdly the middle of the night and you won't ruin your day.
– Green-ish: you can totally get up.