1. LIGHTS!!!

2. The Problem
There are 2 people sharing a room. One person likes to read till late at night. The
problem is that the other person cannot sleep with the lights on. And he can't tell his
roommate to switch off the lights because he wants to read. Everyday, he has to wait
till his room mate switches off the lights and as result, he cannot get proper sleep,
since he hardly gets 3-4 hours (his work begins at 5 am in the morning). Now, he
wants to know how can he tackle this problem of not being able to sleep, without
affecting the reading habit of his room mate!!

3. The Solutions!!

4. Non -
Physical
Physical
Changes
Solutions leading to change Changes
in my room mate‟s reading
habits Solutions which require to
bring changes in me
Solutions resulting from
mutual understanding
Solutions which
require to bring
changes in my
room mate
Solutions which
happen outside the Non -
room Physical
Physical
Changes
Changes
Solutions which happen
Third Party intervention
inside the room

5. Physical
Wear an eye-patch Get too Changes
tired
Sleeping lenses- you wear from
and everything goes black gym and Solutions which require to
sleep bring changes in me
Take a pillow and cover your
face
Take a blanket and cover A bed cabinet – as soon as I
your face lie on bed, the bed
automatically gets inside a
Try sleeping under the slot (in the wall)
bed
Changing my sleeping
habit – sleep early Design a special bed which
rocks and puts me to sleep
Make a sleeping coffin –
whenever the lights are on, I
go there and sleep
I wear an eye instrument
Acupuncture
I start meditation and that shows visual illusions
therapy
control the intensity of light putting me to sleep

6. Non -
Take sleeping tablets Get too Physical
Changes
tired
Get into alcohol and stuff from
gym and Solutions which require to
sleep bring changes in me
Take drugs for sleeping
Sleep early – as soon as I I start snoring so hard that
come my room mate gets irritated
and gives up reading.
I get the timings of my job
changed
I put on some sleeping I have a secret button in my
music bed – as soon as I lie, the
lights in the room are
I also read (and reading switched off.
makes me sleepy)
I build a „bed tent‟ on my
Sing
bed which automatically
I get hold of deflectors (that “Warm Kitty”
opens when the lights are
will deflect any light coming 
switched on
to my side of the room.)

7. I bring a table lamp for him I present him with
I break his
“glow in the dark”
I give him a sleeping bed- as “reading glasses”
powder which he
soon as he lies, he sleeps accidentally all the
can use on his
time!!
books
Irritate him by putting on
disco lights
Irritate him by singing out Solutions which
loud require to bring
changes in my
room mate
I give him “audio books”
Non -
Physical
I take him to a physiologist Changes
and get him treated
Get him a new job which Sing warm
has the same shift timings kitty to him
I get him married!!! as mine 

8. I give my room mate –
reading gloves with lights Get too
Make
tired Make
Spectacles which throw light him
from him take
on the book drink
gym and drugs
alcohol
sleep
A small bulb clipper that can
be fixed on a book
A LCD spectacle – you
can download an e-book Solutions which
and transfer it to these require to bring
glasses and read changes in my
room mate
I hide his books
Physical
Changes
I employ acupuncture on
him
I make a coffin with lights
I destroy all
I put a light off button under and he can go there and
his books
his bed and as soon as he read
lies on bed, the lights
switch off.

9. I talk to his close friends
Complain to his
and ask them to keep him
mother/father and ask them
occupied at night while I am
to break this habit of his
sleeping
I talk to his boss and get
his work timings shifted
to the same as mine
I ask his girlfriend to ask
We ask our another flat him to take her for late
mate to tackle this night drives
problem
I ask a psychologist to
meet him and tell him
that reading is making
him paranoid and he Third Party intervention
should not read till late!!

10. Get some curtains and put I have a „light dimming”
them around my bed I get a
mechanism such
partition
I but a reflector in front of that, half of the room is
made inside
the bulb such that the light with lights and half of it is
the room
only focuses on him completely dark
I have a moving bed – as I mess around with the
soon as he switches on clock and show him how
the lights, my bed moves late it is!!!
to the opposite direction I get hold of a sleeping
(towards dark area) perfume – the moment I
I get some focus lights – use it in the room – he
which will throw light only sleeps
on him
Have a reading booth kind of
I irritate him by talking to arrangement inside the
much room.
Solutions which happen I make a reading tent for him
inside the room
A „door close‟ mechanism – As
soon as the door of the room is
closed, the lights get switched
off

11. I change the room altogether I get a small peephole
I show him
made near his bed – the
the light bill
light from the other room
Kick my room mate out of and blame it
will come through that
the room all on him.
and he can read.
I change my job! I fuse out the bulb every
time he reads
I change my shift!
I connect the light with
the heater – every time he
switches on the lights, the
Solutions which heater gets switched off!!!
happen outside the
room I fix a light off timer
outside the room
I ask the security guard to switch
I tell him to go outside the room
off the lights from outside at a
and then read!!!
particular time!

12. We come to a consensus
that 3 days he would read I tell him to
We take turns to sleep
and the other days he would read in other
out the room every day
not. rooms
Solutions resulting from
I charge him for reading –
mutual understanding
he has to pay for the
particular time slot when I
want to sleep.
I sit with him, discuss in
detail and make him I come home early, get
understand the cons of enough sleep and then he
sleeping late and hence can switch on and read
make him stop his habit. I quit – let
the things
go on as We play a game and whoever
We toss!!! they are!! wins has his way that day
I start paying 2/3rd rent and I tell him that I have a “Farting”
so he has to play by my disorder and if I don‟t get enough
rules!! sleep, I will fart throughout the night!!

13. I introduce him to some
Solutions leading to change great music – so he quits
in my room mate‟s reading reading!!
habits
I introduce him to some I ask his girl friend to
great movies so he can start messaging at night –
watch them on laptop! so he doesn‟t read at that
time!
I find a loophole and
blackmail him all the I introduce him to gym
time!! early mornings – so he
needs to sleep early
I find a loophole and
blackmail him all the time!! Early morning sports!
I pay him not to read!! I get him a new girl friend!!!
I show him a false doctor
report claiming that I need I give him late night shows of movie
some minimum hours of tickets, band performances, clubs etc.
sleep

14. LIGHTS!!!
Thank you!!