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Heeeeeey...
So, after a year, it's finally dawned on me (haha) that one of the reasons I sometimes have such trouble getting up in the morning initially, even when I know I've had enough sleep, is the fact that there is soooo little natural light in our apartment.
So I'm starting think I might benefit from something like this. Except I don't really want to force S4 to be up before he wants to be, either. Anyone used one? Are they cool? Are they stupid? $100+ for a simulated sunrise seems a little frivolous to me, even though I have to admit I'd also really enjoy the ancillary benefit of not searching for my socks in near total darkness as well. (The outlet situation up in the loft is... "interesting"...) I don't think that I'd count myself in the ranks of those with S.A.D., but I do know that sunlight or lack thereof can effect my mood.
Or maybe I should just try to get myself to go to sleep at a reasonable hour more often. *shrug*
So I'm starting think I might benefit from something like this. Except I don't really want to force S4 to be up before he wants to be, either. Anyone used one? Are they cool? Are they stupid? $100+ for a simulated sunrise seems a little frivolous to me, even though I have to admit I'd also really enjoy the ancillary benefit of not searching for my socks in near total darkness as well. (The outlet situation up in the loft is... "interesting"...) I don't think that I'd count myself in the ranks of those with S.A.D., but I do know that sunlight or lack thereof can effect my mood.
Or maybe I should just try to get myself to go to sleep at a reasonable hour more often. *shrug*
A cheaper method...
(Anonymous) 2005-12-12 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)Rather than a natural 'sunrise', the light itself, as you get up and wander around the morning, can be good enough to make you feel _much_ better.
How to do that? Go buy four 100 watt 'quartz' lightbulbs from a grow shop - they take a white filament (rather than yellow) and diffract them through a quartz bulb. They last ten times as long, and they _feel_ a lot different.
This all for about $24 (6$ apiece)
When the alarm goes off, hit a lightswitch that turns all four on. Bask in the nice warm glow. Five, ten minutes later, get up, keep em on as you do all your housey stuff.
The prediction I make is that you will find yourself wanting to switch _all_ your regular lightbulbs over - everything seems warmer and clearer in this kind of light.
Love!
:-b