Can't sleep, and no one to talk to? Leave your light on.

How it works

1. 1

   Turn your light on

   Write one line about why you're awake: can't sleep, missing someone, thinking too much. Your window stays lit for up to an hour.

2. 2

   Someone may knock

   Others who are awake see your window and the line you wrote. They can knock with a gentle opening line or a few words of their own.

3. 3

   You choose whether to open

   You see their nickname and their knock. Open the door and you talk. If you don't, the knock waits a little while, then fades.

4. 4

   Or knock on someone else's

   If you'd rather not be the one waiting, look across the night city and knock on a window whose line speaks to you.

Some nights the city is quiet

Murlune is new, and not every hour has a lit window. If the city is dark when you arrive, turn your light on anyway: the next person awake will see it. Or write a bottle, which waits for a reader however late it is.

Never random

Nobody is matched with you by chance. A knock only comes from someone who read your line and chose you, and the door only opens if you choose them back. Either of you can leave, block or report at any moment.

If tonight feels heavier than sleeplessness

If you are awake because you might hurt yourself, a stranger's window is not enough. Please reach out to a free helpline near you, at any hour.

Find a helpline near you

Read next

• Awake at night with no one to talk to

Other ways to begin

• Burn a letter · Some words don't need an answer. They only need to leave you. Write to anyone, or to no one, watch the page turn to ash, and breathe out.
• Message in a bottle · Write what you can't tell the people around you. The river carries it to someone awake, and if your words move them, they write back.