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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

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

We built Lampiero around this list.

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.

See the lamp

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Slide a finger along the top

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

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

4,9Ruim 200 geverifieerde reviews

Naar de wc

Na een tochtje naar de wc val ik nu binnen vijf minuten weer in slaap. Vroeger lag ik daar een uur te draaien en te woelen. Het verschil is enorm.

Anne M.
Geverifieerde koper

Naar de wc

Briljant

Voor ’s nachts naar de wc is dit perfect. Ik neem de lamp mee, doe wat ik moet doen en slaap binnen een paar minuten weer in. Vroeger verpestte het felle licht mijn slaap.

Vertaald uit het Engels

Thorsten S.
Geverifieerde koper

Naar de wc

Elke avond

Makkelijk mee te nemen naar de wc en terug. Geen licht meer in de gang. Binnen twee minuten slaap ik weer.

Ruben Q.
Geverifieerde koper

Als cadeau

Ik heb de lamp aan mijn moeder gegeven, die drie keer per nacht opstaat. Ze zegt dat het het beste cadeau is dat ik haar ooit heb gegeven. Nu wil ik er zelf ook een.

Vertaald uit het Italiaans

Claudia T.
Geverifieerde koper

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.

4,9Ruim 200 geverifieerde reviews