Night Vision

You show up when it’s dark out. Reading in bed with the phone hidden so nobody catches you awake past bedtime, or in a club because everyone’s dancing except you, or on the last train home drunk and having missed your stop twice because you weren’t paying attention. This place is what you’re looking at when the night gets too quiet or too slow or you need something besides what’s in front of you.

The problem is screens at two in the morning. They burn. The brightness drags you back awake when you were actually getting somewhere close to tired, pushes away whatever you were reaching for. So I made the whole thing darker—just an inverted version of everything, nothing fancy. It switches on at ten PM and off at six AM, like it knows something about your schedule that you don’t.

Curious if it actually works or if it’s just the thing you do when you can’t sleep, tinkering with settings because your brain won’t shut up anyway.