First Light Blocking Glasses
🇦🇺 Engineered for Night Shift workers 🇦🇺
Protect Sleep
Restore Energy
Block Morning Sun
30 Day Better Sleep Guarantee
Protect your sleep from the morning sunlight
What problems will they support?
Night shift workers face a dramatic number of unique and challenging problems every day, on and off the clock. Here are three main problems we aim to tackle through First Light Blocking Glasses and their companion guides
The number one reason night shift workers carry daily fatigue is not the long hours or the hard work. It is the morning sunlight destroying your melatonin before every sleep. Your body never fully recovers from one shift before the next one starts. The tiredness builds and becomes difficult to fix.
Your brain relies on deep sleep to reset and recover. When morning sunlight disrupts your melatonin your sleep becomes shallow and broken. Your brain never gets the recovery window it needs. Over time your focus, reaction time and ability to think clearly all start to decline.
When sunlight suppresses your melatonin before you sleep, your body loses the ability to enter deep sleep. This is the stage where your muscles recover, your brain resets and your body repairs itself. Without it you can sleep for eight hours and still wake up feeling like you got none.
How do they work?
The morning sun between 5am - 11am is the single biggest reason you can't sleep after a night shift. It produces a lightwave called melanopic light, the second this specific light hits your eyes, your brain kills melatonin production and floods your system with cortisol, the stress hormone that makes you alert. In a matter of seconds, your body goes from ready to sleep to wide awake. This happens every single morning on your drive home and there hasn't been a solution for it. Until now.
Melanopic light, otherwise known as first light, is a wavelength of light found in sunlight that controls your sleep wake cycle. When it hits your eyes as you clock off, it suppresses your sleep hormone and triggers a full wake up response at the exact moment your body needs to shut down. Over time, this daily disruption compounds into chronic poor sleep, low energy and declining health.
First Light blocking glasses are powered by FirstLight lens technology, engineered to block 99% of melanopic light. When this light is filtered through our lens, your brain never gets the signal to wake up. It keeps producing melatonin as if it's still the middle of the night. So even though you're walking out into broad daylight, driving home with the sun in your face, your body and brain is winding down, not waking up. By the time you get home, you're ready to sleep. Not fighting for it.
Aswell as blocking 99% of melanopic light, every pair is built and certified to AS/NZ 1067.1:2016, the Australian standard for driving safe sunglasses. That means full UV protection, clear traffic signal recognition and a lens you can legally wear behind the wheel, whilst protecting your sleep.
Blue light glasses were designed for screens, not the sun. They block a small amount of artificial blue light from your laptop or phone, nowhere near enough to stop the morning sun from killing your melatonin. Sunglasses do the opposite, they darken everything but don't target the specific melanopic light that controls your sleep. First Light blocking glasses do one job that neither can do together. Reduce the suns glare and block 99% of melanopic light whilst maintaining full recognition of traffic signals and road hazards. No other sunglasses on the planet do both. Tested and certified in Australia.
Life Behind The Lens
Take a look at how life looks when you wear First Light blocking glasses.
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Why we are the No.1 choice for Night Shift
Proudly Australian Owned & Operated 🇦🇺
First Light's
Blue Light's
Regular sunglasses
Block 99% melanopic light
Built in sunlight shields
Block UV glare
Certified for Australian roads
Engineered for morning after night shift
Better Sleep
Our 30 Day Better Sleep Promise
We guarantee these glasses & their guides will change the way you sleep after each shift. Read the guides and wear First Light blocking glasses for 30 days straight. Every shift, every drive home, every morning. If you're not falling asleep faster, sleeping deeper and waking up feeling like a different person, send them back and we'll refund every cent immediately. You either sleep better at home, feel better on shift or you pay nothing.
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