Sleeping in Daylight

[cosninocanines]

We will be traveling from AZ to AK in June and July and I need some advise. My wife can sleep anytime anywhere but I'm proned to waking up as soon as the sky lightens up. What can I do to help me get to sleep and stay asleep when there's no true darkness. I tried a sleep mask (getting ready) and that didn't really work, how can I do the best job of blacking out (darkening) the sleep quarters in our fifth wheel.

[daverich]

We have the limo grade film on our bedroom windows and I set the blinds up instead of down to also help keep the sun out. Works great for us.

[Trackrig]

It's really not a problem since you're not working and don't have to keep any specific hours. Go all day and into what you're used to calling night. With all of the sunlight there's no reason to stop doing whatever you were doing. When you get tired, then go to sleep. Don't try and force youre self to sleep at any particular time. If the light really bothers you in the bedroom, a cheap temporary fix is to cover the inside of the window with some tinfoil, it's cheap, quick and easy to remove. Scotch tape will hold it in place for the trip. It won't let the light through. If you see tinfoil in a window up here, 99% of the time it's a new person.

Bill

[alaskan-rver]

An easy solution is to buy some of that Reflectix insulation (looks like a cross between aluminum foil and bubble wrap). You should be able to get it at a local hardware. You cut it to fit between the window and the existing blinds, and it does a good job darkening things up. In the morning you can remove it, and then either store it flat somewhere, or roll the pieces up.

[Road_Runners]

My wife has the same problem. I solved that by covering the two bedroom windows with black opague window film. It was a bit of chore putting it on, but it left the bedroom dark even in broad daylight.

[rv2go]

We got some thick black material and made covers for all the insides of the windows. This made it real dark.