British Reaction To Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden | Midnight sun & Polar night

[@carro-xb9oz]

hi there as a neighbour to jonna i can tell u that the north is awsome in every way there is:) the contrasts is just awsome and we would not change it for anything. its actually a huge difference between the southern sweden to the north so i lived in stockholm for 15 years and i loved it but i always longed for my home in the north so now im back up here:)

[@SithMystic]

I really wish I lived up north. But, I cant move up north unless I move to Norway, I just love the sea to much. Never been to Norway though, despite the fact I only live 2 hourts away or something. =P

[@mikaelathunell2822]

I live in Stockholm, and no, we don't have really this extremes, yet huge differences between summer and winter. And even tho I've lived here for my whole life I'm still not "used" to the bright nights. We don't have midnight sun, here it sets around 10pm during the brightest weeks of the summer - but it never gets pitch black. We have about 2h between midnight and 2am where you can still see bigger things but not necessarily every single detail. At 2am you can kinda bring a book outside and read it, and after 3 am it's almost full daylight outside. I try my best to block it out with thick curtains, but you can't really block everything out. And even if you can while inside, you don't get the twilight telling you the night is coming, so then you have to go from almost full daylight at 11pm to trying to get it as dark as you possibly can right before going to bed. There's no time for transition in that. So yes, I do struggle a lot with sleeping every summer.

[@penaarja]

This was really nice❤️. From 🇫🇮😘to🇸🇪

[@petragrevstad2714]

I live in the Southwest and seasonal conditions are less harsh here. Not as dark during the winter (dark enough though) and not 24 hours of daylight during the summer (only around 19 or something 😂). We might get a week of snow, sometimes almost none (instead we get a lot of rain, and I would prefer snow). I’ve never been to the North of Sweden. Haven’t been further north than Stockholm. Whenever I go on vacation, I tend to choose warmer places 😁. But I would like to go see the Northern Lights someday. I couldn’t live there, I think winters down south is hard and long enough and they don’t compare to what it’s like where Jonna lives…

[@Tove_Ishockey]

One of her pictures actually got sold in IKEA

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Finally you got to this great video. Always gets me a bit chocked up.

[@j3mixa]

I grew up right in the Arctic Circle and still live pretty close to it. I feel that you can't really get your body to get used to the extreme light conditions. A human body naturally reacts to the amount of light. The body produces different hormones in different amounts of light which effects the energy levels. You can't fully change that but like she said you can do some things to reduce the effects. Different people approach it differently. Some like to keep their sleeping rhythm stable regardless of the season with artificial methods. They can close the darkening curtains in the evening to keep their body in rhythm with the clock as their guide, and spend most nights in the darkness. And in reverse put bright lights on in winter mornings when it's dark, until it's the normal time to start winding down in the evening. That can work, since humans, like all the other living things, benefit from steady sleeping rhythm . Some, like me, love the nights too much to care too much about keeping any kind of traditional rythm. It's sometimes physically hard and I can feel that my body would like a more stable rhythm. But my natural rhythm would not work with the society's rhythm. It's unfortunate that I often have to follow the clock instead of my natural rhythm. When ever I can, I let my natural rhythm take over, stay up all nights and sleep during the day. I especially do this in summer but also in winter since I love going out at night to walk in a snowy forrest in the moonlight hoping to see the Northern lights. So, I'm more in agreement with her about letting myself feel the way I feel and taking the most out of it. Sleep when I feel like it and stay up regardless of time if that's the way my body feels at that moment.

[@zpitzer]

many who react to this asks where she gets her food from, and yes she grows lots herself, but she can do like you, go to a store and buy it.

[@Tove_Ishockey]

you should react her Lucia and national anthem tooo

[@carro-xb9oz]

we take our trash bins out to the road and hopefully the truck get there if the snowplow managed to go past