• Arctic Circle : At one point, when we were way up far north, in Tromso, and even Kirkenes in far north Norway, there was really no darkness.
• The difference between sunset and sunrise was about an hour and a half. I tried staying up one night to watch it but it was very difficult.
• There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness; all the other time it was daylight.

Hey, guys. It’s Shauna, a correspondent for Without Bags, coming to you live from our headquarters in Scottsdale. Today, I want to talk about the importance of the sunrise and the sunset. You never really realize how much the sunrise, especially coming from a super sunny place like Arizona, you never really realize how much sunrise and sunset are going to impact you. In the past trip, if you joined along with us, you can see all of our hysterical and historical videos on our Facebook Live channel for Without Bags.

You can see we were up, way, way, way up, actually in the Arctic Circle. At one point, when we were way up far north, Tromso and even Kirkenes in far north Norway, there was really no darkness. What we were looking at was an hour and a half. The difference between sunset and sunrise was about an hour and a half. Really, I was trying to watch it. I tried to stay up one night to watch it. There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness. Everything else was basically daylight. It kind of looked like this. Of course, it’s much brighter outside. We’ve got some tinting on the windows here, but yeah. There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness. Everything else was really dusk, sunset and sunrise.

Really, what that did, especially for me, was it kind of threw me for a loop. I was having problems sleeping, having problems getting up at a regular time because my brain kept seeing sunlight. I wanted to stay awake, it was daytime, trying to stay in a sunlight. I remember reading an article years ago that talked about our cavemen ancestors way back when and how this is how we ended up with different sleep patterns is that some people were basically born to be night people and they evolved that way so that they would protect the rest of us, the daytime people, while we were sleeping. But the majority of people were daytime people because those are the people, the hunters and the gatherers, and we had to go out and find berries, and it was a lot easier to survive when there was light outside than it was in the dark.

I just found the whole arctic experience really super interesting. 20 minutes, I’m not so sure that I can deal. I don’t know how everybody lives up there. That’s got to be really tough to deal with only 20 minutes of dark. They definitely have some really thick curtains and shades that they would pull down over the windows. I thought I would share my little adventure. If you are rise by the sunrise and go to bed by the sunset kind of person, going that far into the arctic circle can be a little rough.

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