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.
Make a bed...
As Tobias suggested Wait it out with the window open
Open your inventory ('e' or 'i'), then switch window.
This stops the game frompausing.
Hacks :P
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If you have a bed already you can sleep during the night with following construct.
__ xxx
x xgggggggggggg
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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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 - emptyw w w - woolp p p - planks
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!
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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?
Is it possible to skip past night in Minecraft single player?
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You can make a bed to sleep during night hours. You can also use a cheat command like doDaylightCycle false to skip nighttime. Making a bed or using special commands and enabling cheats can help with skipping past night.
Creating a bed seems to solve the assist with skipping the night. A way of skipping the night is by using commands or enable cheats.