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Its amazing when you go camping with no artificial lights or internet and soon after dark everyone is yawning and ready to sleep.

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Not my experience at all, as someone who is both a night owl, and an avid backpacker. I figure a week in to a backpacking trek I've hit my no-screens adjusted schedule, and that still involves going to sleep somewhere a little past midnight, and waking up an hour or so after dawn.

Hah, yeah right! I get the shortest amount of sleep on camping trips, because I'm up with the sun, but I don't get to sleep until late, because everyone is hanging out and talking the night away. That said, as short as it is, it's some of my best quality sleep.

I'm the exact same way and wondered if it's the fresh air and nature that causes that. I can operate on 4-6 hours sleep camping or at the cottage for as long as a week and it's so refreshing. And it's the most refreshing sleep I experience.

I try so hard to replicate it in my normal life because I feel so accomplished when I wake up at 6am and walk down the road to shower and get ready for the day.

if anyone cracks this code I would pay dear money for it. maybe i should setup my tent in the backyard for a week

Wasn't really the case for our camping trips.

We usually stay up talking at least until 11PM and wake up roughly ~7:30AM

What's different about camping is usually the quality of sleep. If you're a nightowl and you get 8.5 hours of really good sleep, you won't be feeling like crap waking up at 7-8 AM.

Nah. My friends and I stayed up way late. Laying down on a frozen lake at 2am looking up at a moon-less star-filled sky. I will never forget that. :)

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