Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyine else have a strange relationship with street lights as I do?
Im all for energy saving to help with climate change but im really struggling with these new bright white (LED?) lights.
A lot of the street lights round here are being retro-fitted with the new white light. I much prefer the warm tones of the old style orange or peach ones. Is it just that i like things just-so snd unchanged? The old orange ones rrmind me of being a child. To me, the white light is like the visual equivalent of the sound of a bad chord on an untuned piano. Does that make sense to anyone? It makes me feel uncomfortabke and a bit uneasy.
Since New year, there have been 4 neighbours who have had white security lights installed outside their homes.The house at the back has lights which shine into our back bedroom. Its not majorly bright but its the colour of the light i dont like. The lights they had before shone in a bit but were a warmer light and it didnt feel invasive.
When we lived in a second floor flat, some new car park lighrs were installed which shone directly into our living room. There was only me who seemed bothered by it (not partner or other neighbours) and i got the council to re-angle the light.
These white lights make me feel uncomfortable. In places like supermarket car parks where they are really bright, the birds are singing at 10pm at night because the lighrs mimic daylight. It fills me with despair. This is messing with our body clock as well as nature.
My partner said he has never heard anyone go on about lighting as much as me. Is it just me?!
It's back! The security lights are back on from a house down the side and I feel like telling the neighbours to **** off and punching them in the face. Is this a kind of *visual* misphonia.
Even next door have them coming on at a pretty low level but it still drives me UP THE WALL that I can't sit outside in the darkness. And they come on all of a sudden for no reason.
I can relate to your frustration. Although motion detector security lights can offer peace of mind for the people that have them, they can also be an absolute source of irritation for other people.
They will never make sense to me!
I have to confess that I had a solar motion detector security light in my garden, mainly so that I could see where I was walking when it was dark. To explain, if I have cause to venture out, I find it easier to access my home via my garden. It's unclear if my light had ever bothered any of my neighbours, but I had done my best to angle it in a way that wouldn't be a nuisance for them.
As it happened, it ended up annoying me.
If the neighbourhood cats wandered into my garden and set the light off, I would end up panicking, thinking that a human intruder had got into my garden. It was possibly a blessing in disguise when the light ended up getting accidentally broken by some workmen.