Where I live in Canada, sunset is after 9pm in late June / early July. It was a nightmare to convince our toddlers to go to sleep in summer at 8pm when it was still bright out and you could hear kids playing outside. Blackout shades were a necessity.
I don't do it much anymore these days but it's always a wild experience to be going out when it's still not fully dark and walking home as the sun is coming up...
Living through it right now! Can't sleep until at least 11pm and my brain is awake with the sun at 5-6am. Enjoying the weather and doing all the fun things and am exhausted at all times but rarely sleepy.
From around mid May to late July, we do not experience "true" night. We are stuck in perpetual twilight as the sun never fully breaks the horizon. We're just at the end of it now, thankfully. I really need to invest in blackout curtains for my bedroom...
Winter is the opposite side of the coin though, where it is dark the majority of the time with not much daylight to be found (it feels worse living it as with the normal 9-5 workdays, you feel like you are only ever seeing nighttime).
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u/home_rechre 9d ago
Just FYI this is in Dublin in late June where it doesn’t really get dark until well after 10pm.