Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don't like lights on.
I realized that even when I'm home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn't wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.
I have my phone's flashlight hooked up to the extra button that was supposed to be for an ai assistant, and I use it more than every other non-keyboard button on every other device I own combined.
Not only am I more comfortable in the natural light/darkness, I never need to make a return trip to turn the lights out.
I'm the wife and I'm like you. I will stand in the dark and wait for my eyes to adjust rather than turn on a light.
We have fairy lights and red LED string lights for the high traffic areas to dissuade hubby from flipping on the overhead.
Low light motion sensor nightlights for a couple spots so that we don't step on a cat on the way to the bathroom.
The kitchen lights are dimmable, so we can go bright when needed to cook, and dim if just searching for a snack.
I love it. He has given in and adjusted. I find it calm and cozy.
Well, it's nice that you two found a common ground here, wife and husband. It is a bit weird you did so by communicating via Lemmy comments, but's great if this works for you. ;)
Turning on the lights in the room at night, especially when you’re trying to go to sleep, is going to be far more disruptive for you mentally. So it actually makes a lot more sense to use a small light just to spot what you need to and then quickly turn it off after
I don’t really have an issue with ceiling lights, but I don’t see the point either.
Can be sitting in an office where basically an entire wall is windows, and someone will still put the lights on… why? There’s enough natural light.
It's just taking nice blue-white natural light and pissing harsh yellow light all over it.
It makes me wonder if we have different amounts of blue cones, that they literally can't see all the blue light. Is there one of those colour blind tests that can estimate cone density?
Office lights tend to be a lot more blue than what's used in homes.
That's true. Office fluorescents are often a very clinical and harsh tone.
Maybe it's something to do with the breadth of the spectrum? Are some eyes better at utilizing a wife spectrum even if the intendity is lower, while other eyes care prinarily about the maximum intensity?
Or maybe it's something to do with exposure? Some people can't see the intensity difference between spill light from outside and dedicated room lights because their brain adjusts the effective exposure differently?
Maybe it's overexposure filtering. Some people get headaches from brighter light but don't notice the brightness because of all the extra work their visual cortex is doing to filter out the extra light, while other people genuinely need the extra intensity?
Apparently all eyes are not created equal in ability to transfer light to the retina. Some has narrower or wider fields of vision as well. So, where your eyes may be well adapted to low light levels, others may not be. In a world with no artificial shadows and the sun high on the sky for most of the year, being able to filter out sun light might have been a pro, while now needing lots of artificial lights to see straight.
I mean as far as I understand it for me, being heavily ADHD, it's a sensory thing, i feel overloaded and overwhelmed when that light is on me, like it blasting me with it's energy. I also cannot be touched when I feel greasy (after eating greasy foods for example)
It's just too much for me to handle
IT BURNS!! IT BURRNNNSSS!!!!
Ceiling Lights, MY ONLY WEAKNESS!!
Hey now there's nothing weird about being completely unable to focus under fluorescent lights.
I learned recently that not everyone can see the fluorescent flicker. It's unnerving and feels a bit like being buzzed on caffeine. It's not so bad in the offices with indirect lighting. Also, cheap LED lights can flicker. I clung to my incandescent lights until they all burnt out.
For me it can be the opposite, I often focus better with artificial light than with sunlight.
me and a friend were talking recently about how we function better at night and summer takes that away. so, a few days ago I covered my window with a blanket which blacked out the window, and use only my lava lamp for light. it has been the most productive, multitasking filled era for me so far.