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Moodiness and light
Turlough's Terrier Started conversation Mar 6, 2008
Is it common for harsh bright light to cause people to get irritible and tetchy?
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Researcher 1300304 Posted Mar 6, 2008
the guys in those old spy movies being interrogated didn't seem to like it much.
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Turlough's Terrier Posted Mar 6, 2008
Well that's true, but there's no pleasing some people. They didn't like it when they had a sack over their heads either.
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Researcher 1300304 Posted Mar 6, 2008
yeah. keep em in the dark, give em lots of lights, all you get is complaints.
hey, that sorta proves it does make you depressed.
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Researcher 1300304 Posted Mar 6, 2008
*turns down monitor brightness. suggests others do the same*
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Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Mar 7, 2008
My housing association won't let me have dimmer switches. 
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Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Mar 7, 2008
More seriously though, I personally find bright overhead lighting can detract from my good mood. Not just tube lighting which will get anyone down.
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I'm not really here Posted Mar 7, 2008
If I have to go outside in bright sunlight without my sunglasses I get very grumpy about it. Does that count?
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Mar 7, 2008
I'm generally grumpiest at first light...
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Mar 7, 2008
Hm.
I dunno. is it more a lack of real light rather than an impact of the fake light?
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Mar 7, 2008
Well for some of us a lack of daylight can lead to depression so possibly too bright a light could have an effect.
I get migraines if I get too much harsh sunlight shining in my eyes at a particular angle during the day or when I'm driving along in really sunny weather down a tree lined road and I get that strobing effect.In fact a strobing light is pretty much guaranteed to give me a migraine and make me very bad tempered.So yes I think you may be on to something.
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Mar 8, 2008
Light can definitely effect moods.
Think of SAD "Seasonally Affected Disorder" I think - where people get quite depressed during Winter. It's been proven that bright light can help treat this.
Jet lag can be be treated with strong light - apparently it resets the pineal gland, and it doesn't have to be sunlight.
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- 1: Turlough's Terrier (Mar 6, 2008)
- 2: Researcher 1300304 (Mar 6, 2008)
- 3: Turlough's Terrier (Mar 6, 2008)
- 4: Researcher 1300304 (Mar 6, 2008)
- 5: Researcher 1300304 (Mar 6, 2008)
- 6: Ellen (Mar 7, 2008)
- 7: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Mar 7, 2008)
- 8: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Mar 7, 2008)
- 9: I'm not really here (Mar 7, 2008)
- 10: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Mar 7, 2008)
- 11: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Mar 7, 2008)
- 12: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Mar 7, 2008)
- 13: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Mar 8, 2008)
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