The Shift Worker's Daylight Sleep: Making rest possible at the wrong hours

June Alderwood

Sleeping while the world runs errands and mows the lawn outside your window is its own particular skill, not a failure of willpower. This is how to build real daylight rest: darkening a room against a bright afternoon, resetting a body clock that keeps expecting sunset, managing the noise and hunger and family traffic that daytime sleep invites, and easing back into work hours without dragging exhaustion behind you. Steady, sensible guidance for an unnatural schedule.