Honeywell Uvex Ademco Skyper Blue Light Blocking Computer Glasses with SCT-Orange Lens (S1933X)

You can buy orange safety glasses that are kind of like flux for the whole world...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90

I bought them because I had forgotten about flux and I also tend to use my iPhone late at night. I had no idea how much blue light affected my sleep patterns until I started wearing these while I was winding down for the night.

For blocking blue light, instead of filtering the devices, just filter your eyes:

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

I've been wearing those for ~2 hours before sleeping and they work very well.

I wonder how big of a role artificial light at night plays in this problem. My experience tells me that the later I have to get up the longer I stay awake at night. At the moment I am experimenting with blue light blocking sun glasses that I put on after sunset:

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

I'd love to learn how to manually perform the equivalent of whatever true REM sleep does for my eyes. No matter how I try to focus or rest my eyes myself they don't truly feel rested any other way.

There are software tools like Flux and Redshift for the PC, Screen Filter for Android (which I just use to turn off the LED lights) -- all intended to reduce the light (typically the 'harsher' blues) to absorb. Some people use orange safety glasses to accomplish the same goal: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000USRG90

Here is another single datapoint (but supported by a peer-reviewed paper!): I just bought blue light blocking glasses which I put on at around 9 or 10pm every day. They look goofy but it seems to actually work! It’s like a real-life Flux app. I seem to fall asleep much faster and it seems that the bright bathroom light does not to make me as alert anymore.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/what_keeps_you...

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

http://justgetflux.com/

If you just want to give it a try, the ones made by Uvex are pretty cheap and of good quality: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

Acting on a tip from an HN user on a similar thread this year, I ordered these blue light blocking glasses[1] for only $10.

If you can get past the goofy look (perhaps a bit more problematic at work than at home), they work great, and obviously they work with any device.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90?psc=1&redirect=t...

This model is quite popular: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

One thing you could try is safety goggles that block UV:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90

My experience with flux was that the screen still gave off enough blue light that it didn't make much of a difference for me.

In addition to morning light (works great!) eliminating evening blue light has hugely improved my sleep.

I use these orange glasses https://www.amazon.com/Uvex-Blocking-Computer-SCT-Orange-S19...

I don't wear them every evening, but whenever I need to sleep or am having sleep troubles, it solves the problem. Great for traveling too, because you can start moving your circadian clock during the flight. You can still use the phone/computer and not worry about avoiding light.

I also use flux, nightshift, and Philips hue lights (set to orange at night) so that I can set and forget it. The glasses are the place to start though. They block all blue light and are super cheap, portable, and simple to try.

I find that popping on some orange safety glasses an hour before I want to sleep helps much more than flux, partly because you don't have to worry about other sources of blue light, like bulbs: https://www.amazon.com/Uvex-Blocking-Computer-SCT-Orange-S19...

Top rated by Consumer Reports vs other blue light blocking glasses, they block nearly 100% of blue light. You can literally not tell that blue LEDs are on, for example, even when toggling them and off.

I don't know that, although I once tried hard to google it. What I do know, though, is that for me these orange-tinted blue-light-blocking safety glasses (which I learned about from somebody else on this very forum discussing this exact topic a few years ago) work way better than any screen-modifying software I have tried.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90/ref=oh_aui_sear...

They look a bit silly but if you are just at home, who cares...

(I no longer use them, because in the intervening years I produced three young children, so I am now exhausted at all times and can fall asleep instantly whenever the opportunity presents itself. However, I still do use Night Shift / Night Mode / f.lux / Windows Blue Light Filter on all my phones and computers, because I came to strongly prefer it after getting used to it, even in absence of sleep issues.)

I got this pair from Uvex: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000USRG90/ref=oh_aui_detai...

What I like about them is they cover my entire field of view. They're not really fashionable, but I only wear them inside anyway.