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Lighting

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Am I unusual among autistics for preferring very bright and cool white rather than soft, warm yellow lighting? I love bright sunny days and direct sunlight. I often struggle at events for autistic people because I'm fighting the urge to fall asleep in dimly lit rooms with the curtains drawn, which is also an environment I find very depressing. Is there any product that could help me with this? Like sunglasses but in reverse? Something that can make the environment brighter for me but not for everyone else?

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  • The problem is usually the TYPE of lighting. Unnatural lights like LEDs, CFLs and Fluorescents don't mimic the natural spectrum our Star gives off. Fire also mimics sunlight but obviously not as bright. 

    The sun's spectrum and filament/fire has a lot Infrared (IR), which the eyes borrow for Contrast. We've found this by understanding how colourblind individuals have better night vision. 

    Unnatural lighting has far too much of a few points on the light spectrum, too much UV especially, but our eyes borrow from UV light for brilliance. However most unnatural light sources cannot mimic IR light very well, so vision will go a bit blurry.

    to help understand this, think of a Light Spectrum like a Sound Spectrum. If you cut the Low frequencies (similar to getting rid of Infrared) on a song, it doesn't sound pleasant. Then start cutting out other frequencies and it can create a Great Deal of Effort to listen to the song. This is the same kind of effort your brain will be putting in to negotiate unnatural lighting. Which would account for becoming tired. 

    For more info: lightaware.org

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  • The problem is usually the TYPE of lighting. Unnatural lights like LEDs, CFLs and Fluorescents don't mimic the natural spectrum our Star gives off. Fire also mimics sunlight but obviously not as bright. 

    The sun's spectrum and filament/fire has a lot Infrared (IR), which the eyes borrow for Contrast. We've found this by understanding how colourblind individuals have better night vision. 

    Unnatural lighting has far too much of a few points on the light spectrum, too much UV especially, but our eyes borrow from UV light for brilliance. However most unnatural light sources cannot mimic IR light very well, so vision will go a bit blurry.

    to help understand this, think of a Light Spectrum like a Sound Spectrum. If you cut the Low frequencies (similar to getting rid of Infrared) on a song, it doesn't sound pleasant. Then start cutting out other frequencies and it can create a Great Deal of Effort to listen to the song. This is the same kind of effort your brain will be putting in to negotiate unnatural lighting. Which would account for becoming tired. 

    For more info: lightaware.org

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