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The toilet trip

You fall asleep fine. So why are you wide awake after the toilet?

Bedside lamp, hallway light, bathroom light. Before you blame your bladder or your age, look at the light you switch on.

Written by Jean, founder of Lampiero
5 min read
A small white bathroom at night under a bright ceiling light
The bathroom light, the second it goes on.

You wake up. You need the toilet. You lie still for a minute and hope it passes. It does not, so you get up, half asleep.

Your hand finds the switch. The bathroom light comes on: white tiles, a mirror, the brightest room in your home.

Two minutes later you are back in bed, eyes closed and wide awake.

From forums

I’m never going to get back to sleep again

A Mumsnet user, in a thread about waking in the night

Unfortunately, after going I find it hard to fall back asleep.

A reader on a German forum, translated from German

Look at the light you switch on

People blame the bladder, the evening tea, their age. Almost nobody blames the light.

Walk the route in your head. The bedside lamp, to find your slippers. The hallway light, so you do not hit the door frame. The bathroom ceiling light, the only switch in there. Every one of them is white light, and the bathroom light is the brightest: LED spots on white tiles, straight into eyes that were closed a minute ago.

A dark bedroom with the bathroom light coming through the open door onto the bed
It does not stay in the bathroom. It comes through the door and across the other pillow.

Harvard sleep lab

90minutes

Room light in the evening cut about 90 minutes off the body’s night.

Melatonin is the signal that tells your body it is night. In a Harvard sleep lab, people who sat in ordinary room light before bed started making it later. Their melatonin night was about 90 minutes shorter. Red is the colour the body clock reacts to least.

Room light before beda shorter night

Dim light before bedthe full night

Gooley JJ et al., Harvard Medical School. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2011.

The same bathroom, three lights

Bright white light at night signals daytime to your body clock. Tap each light and look at how much of the room it lights.

Tap a light and watch the room

The same bathroom at night, ceiling light The same bathroom at night, under-sink light The same bathroom at night, red night light

Ceiling light

The whole room lights up: every tile, the mirror and the hallway behind you. The brightest light in your home.

Under-sink light

Lower and warmer. Still white light, and it still reaches the floor, the walls and the door.

Red night light

One red lamp by the sink. You see the tap, the floor and the toilet. The mirror and the hallway stay dark.

What people try first

  • The phone flashlight. A white beam at the floor. On the way back, the screen lights up with a message.
  • A plug-in sensor light. Its own buyers say it is too bright on the lowest setting, and it cuts out after about 30 seconds while you are still sitting there.
  • A dimmer on the bathroom light. Better. But dimmed white is still white, and it still fills the hallway.

What a light for this walk needs to do

  1. Deep red, not white. The colour your body clock reacts to least.
  2. Dims very low. Enough for the floor and the seat, not the whole tiled room.
  3. Goes with you. No plug in one room, no sensor that cuts out halfway.
  4. Comes on where you left it. Never full power in the middle of the night.

We built Lampiero around this list.

A hand carries the Lampiero red night light by the metal loop in its base

Lampiero

A red night light for the walk to the toilet and back

Leave the bathroom light off tonight. Touch the lamp on by your bed, lift it by the loop in its base and take it with you. It lights the floor, the toilet and the sink. The rest of the house stays dark.

Go back to bed half asleep.

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30 Nächte zum Ausprobieren Kostenloser Versand weltweit

Slide a finger along the top

Slide left for less light, right for more. Try it on the picture.

Lampiero on a bathroom sink at night

FaintOnly the lamp and the edge of the sink. Enough to find the door.

LowThe tap, the floor and the toilet seat. The mirror stays dark.

MediumThe whole sink and the floor around it. Still only red light.

FullThe bathroom in red. Still no white light in your eyes.

Drag the dot along the arc

Set it low once. It comes back on at that level every night.

What people who use it say

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Nachts ins Bad

Nach dem Gang zur Toilette schlafe ich jetzt innerhalb von fünf Minuten wieder ein. Früher habe ich mich eine Stunde lang hin und her gewälzt. Der Unterschied ist riesig.

Übersetzt aus dem Niederländischen
A
Anne M.
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Nachts ins Bad

Genial

Fürs Bad in der Nacht ist das perfekt. Ich nehme sie mit, erledige, was ich muss, und schlafe in wenigen Minuten wieder ein. Vorher hat mir das helle Licht den Schlaf ruiniert.

Übersetzt aus dem Englischen
T
Thorsten S.
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Nachts ins Bad

Jeden Abend

Einfach mit aufs Klo und wieder zurück. Kein Flurlicht mehr. In zwei Minuten schlafe ich wieder.

Übersetzt aus dem Niederländischen
R
Ruben Q.
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Als Geschenk

Ich habe sie meiner Mutter geschenkt, die dreimal pro Nacht aufsteht. Das beste Geschenk, das ich ihr je gemacht habe, sagt sie. Jetzt will ich auch eine.

Übersetzt aus dem Italienischen
C
Claudia T.
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Questions readers ask

Is red light bright enough to see the toilet?

Yes. Set low, it lights the floor, the seat and the sink. Slide it up if you need more.

Does it click, or switch on by itself?

No. Every control is touch and there is no sensor. Touch it off back in bed, or set the timer for 30, 60 or 90 minutes. One charge lasts about a week of nights.

4,9Über 200 verifizierte Bewertungen

Try it for 30 nights

One lamp is enough to start. People who take two keep one by the bed and one in the bathroom, so there is nothing to carry.

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30 Nächte zum Ausprobieren zu Hause

Die Nächte beginnen an dem Tag, an dem sie ankommt. Volle Rückerstattung, wenn sie dir nachts nichts bringt. Ganz unkompliziert.

Bestell heute, dann ist sie in 8 bis 13 Tagen bei dir.
Kostenloser Versand weltweit, mit Sendungsverfolgung. Keine zusätzlichen Gebühren an der Kasse.
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P.S. Leave the bathroom light off for 30 nights. If the lamp does nothing for your nights, send it back for a full refund.

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