How do you balance this need with getting higher quality sleep by totally blacking out your room before bed?
We live in a loft with angled ceiling windows/blinds* - if I don't close them then it's difficult to sleep with the general ambient city light. I was thinking of making an Arduino IR thingy to open them every morning at sunrise automatically, but tbh the noise of the blinds opening would probably wake us up anyway.
I could wear a sleep mask too, but that would obviously prevent me from waking up to the sun too.
On vacation in California this year I noticed myself waking up every morning with the sun and feeling amazing - wish it was as easy to replicate year-round in London :(