The lights will be on I'll curl up in a ball on a bed and begin to fall asleep. For some reason, sometimes I fall asleep better when the lights are on. However, if I get up to turn off the lights, I usually lose that warm/cozy/comfortable feeling and have trouble falling asleep.
My quality of sleep is much better when all of the lights are off. If I don't turn off all the lights, I often don't feel very rested the morning after.
Eventually, I'd like to have small/lightweight/comfortable to the touch handheld device that I can temporarily fasten to my wrist/loop around my wrist that can turn off all the lights including miscellaneous lights indicating that a laptop is charging/ethernet wire lights etc say within 3 seconds and have the light bulbs dim slowly during those 3 seconds as they turn off.
Now my gut instinct is that someone will or has made a clever smartphone app to do this. So in that situation the hardware would be your smartphone. There's a few reasons why I'd be hesitant if a smartphone solution to this came along and here's why. Feel free to address them:
- Plenty of smartphones are slippery- I don't think you could tie a smartphone to your hand comfortably
- The heat your body under the covers might not be good for the smartphone
- Could pretty easily knock the smartphone off the bed onto the floor
When I was a little boy, sometimes my parents would see that I had fallen asleep and turn off the lights -> Things would work great then. Perhaps I'm going about this wrong and there is actually hardware for the lights in your room to know that you have fallen asleep?
