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You need light-cancelling lamps. They work just like noise-cancelling headphones, only instead of producing sound waves 180 degrees out of phase with the ambient noise, these lamps produce light waves 180 degrees out of phase with the ambient light. I suggest you pick up a couple - they're well worth the price.

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Tell me more about these "light cancelling lamps."
Are you telling me if I turn a conventional lamp on in my room, then point one of these badass LCL's at it, all of a sudden my room will be dark. I don't get it, and Google was useless.

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This is what I'm saying.

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You're doing a good job playing along...or you're a sucker.

Swede

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Get aluminum blinds (as opposed to plastic, because metal will be opaque) from home depot/wherever and have them custom fit for your windows. Dark, but not darkroom dark (definitely good enough for sleeping until 3pm).

2-3 windows < $200

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My friend duck-taped a blanket to his window, it worked but it made his room very hot.

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I'm sure it also made him very hot in the eyes of all the girls who came to visit. Blankets fastened with duct tape is definitely 1.4.

Swede

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wrong. its rocks and rings.

rj

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You need light-cancelling lamps. They work just like noise-cancelling headphones, only instead of producing sound waves 180 degrees out of phase with the ambient noise, these lamps produce light waves 180 degrees out of phase with the ambient light. I suggest you pick up a couple - they're well worth the price.

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Tell me more about these "light cancelling lamps."
Are you telling me if I turn a conventional lamp on in my room, then point one of these badass LCL's at it, all of a sudden my room will be dark. I don't get it, and Google was useless.

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This is what I'm saying.

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Sign me up! I sleep during the day.

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http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/...s/exAlfoil.jpg

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I actually did that to my garage window. My wife hates it...

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I actually did that to my garage window. My wife hates it...

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confession time: i did it to my apartment windows. yes, all of them. it's coming off soon though.