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BonesMS:

--- Quote from: Hopalong on August 27, 2013, 01:34:47 PM ---Yup, they absolutely work.
The light boxes were just amazing.
Pour that light into your eyes (sideways, avoiding frontal staring at it) for, say, 20 min. every morning...
just amazing.
It's like a stimulant without the jitters.
Totally real and feelable and noticeable mood changer.
I loved it!

But then...began to think about vision (have a friend w/degrading eyes) and starting searching,
and found a lot of contradictory stuff about what long-term use of the light boxes could do. Quit.

If I can find SURE info, objective and researched, that a specific type of bulb (not from the manufacturers
who are all selling THEIR spectrum of therapeutic light) is truly zero threat to vision, long-term, I'd be
plugged back in in a flash.

They're used heavily in Nordic countries by loads of people, during winter.
I have a Norwegian friend so I'll try to get info from her on what the consensus is there.

hugs
Hops


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Some years ago, I participated in a clinical study on S.A.D. at NIH where they loaned me a light box.  (It helped tremendously.)  I'm wondering if NIH/NIMH has a published study on the long term uses of the S.A.D. light box and their effect on vision.

Meh:
Oh yeah, you are right about the sun glasses. I remember reading now that not only do the eyes pick up the light ....but also that our brain can even interpret nuances of the suns angle to the earth or what degree the light is hitting our eyes or something odd like that. ARGH...it just started to RAIN outside!!! Bonk head on computer, I temporarily forgot what rain was. God I don't want this FALL to happen at all. GO AWAY AUTUMN....go away!!!!!!

Um,  a human dog bed... LOL!!! okay Hops that works.

Hopalong:
Bones, i think the "green light" one that I put the link to sounds pretty safe...
but I'm perking up with morning walks and spirulina...man, that's potent!

Feeling quite chipper this morning.

Boat, nature loves you no matter what the weather.

And the hellidays are ours to RESHAPE. Gonna do it every damn year
until they aren't so painful.

xxoo
Hops

BonesMS:
Thanks, Hops.

sKePTiKal:
Hopsie, are those lights different than the full spectrum daylight bulbs? I can't remember the brand name now, but the sewing shops started carrying them. I got one for doing art work - and used it even during the day - because the "color" of the light was "whiter", some days. (measured in degrees Kelvin... for the science geeks...)

I can't believe how I used to stay up all night - until the sun came up - working on art work. Now, I'm usually snoring on the couch by 9 pm. Funny how we change, without any intention to isn't it?

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