Is it possible to skip past night in Minecraft single player?

I have an essentially brand-new Minecraft world. Problem is, I haven't found anything I can use to make light yet, so as soon as night falls I get totally lost. And I then have to sit still with the application open waiting for dawn so I can figure out where the Hell I am. (I can't even alt-tab out, since that pauses the game.)

Is there any way to skip night so I can get back to trying to do something?

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Yes, use a bed. Build it like this (spoiler, hover above the grey box):

Three times wool above three times wooden planks

Also, you can use a Furnace as temporary light source and as by-product obtain charcoal:

Get some wood, build a workbench and there a wooden pickaxe. Dig down until you reach stone, get 8, build a Furnace, use unprocessed wood as input and wooden planks as fuel. You obtain light plus charcoal for torches.

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This is how you make a bed:

And this is how you make charcoal:

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Well there are four most popular ways.

1. Make a bed... As Tobias suggested
2. Wait it out with the window open
3. Open your inventory ('e' or 'i'), then switch window. This stops the game from pausing.
4. Hacks :P

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If you have a bed already you can sleep during the night with following construct.

 __ xxx x x
gggggggggggg

Where g stands for ground, x is any material that can float (so no sand or gravel) and __ is your bed. When you build it like this you are save for to sleep in that bed (granted there isnt a ridge nearby where a skeleton could start shooting you.

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If you have access to commands, you can use /gamerule doDaylightCycle false.

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1. Build a bed! Get one wood log and craft it into a plank (to make a crafting table), get another log and craft it too, and kill a couple of sheep for wool. Then use the crafting table like this:

   e e e - empty
   w w w - wool
   p p p - planks

2. If you have cheats enabled, use the /time code! To make it dawn, just hit / and type in /time set 0 (the / will be there already) and you'll have skipped the night!