How do you feel in the winter when light levels are reduced? Do you become fed-up, lethargic or even depressed? This phenomenon is quite widely recognized and has the acronym of SADS. SADS is or can be quite serious, but there are almost certainly many many more people who just feel a ‘bit down’ when the sunlight dims. Artificial bright light was invented to help these people.<\/p>\n
If, after you have been in the office or wherever you work inside for a few hours, you become tired or listless, it is possible that you are suffering from reduced light levels, so some people say. Whether you accept as true that bright light can help sluggishness or not, SADS is a fact and so it is feasible that increased bright light levels might help.<\/p>\n
The artificial bright light box produces very bright light, typically between 5,000 and 10,000 lux according to their advertisements. These figures will not mean much to most people, so I have put together a short list of comparison lux levels below.<\/p>\n
1 lux = Full moon overhead in the tropics 50 lux = Family living room 100 lux = Very dark overcast day 320-500 lux = Office lighting 400 lux = Sunrise or sunset on a clear day. 1,000 lux = Overcast day 10,000-25,000 lux = Full daylight (not direct sun) 32,000-130,000 lux = Direct sunlight<\/p>\n
It is definitely true that most people feel happier when the sun is shining and not many people have a preference for winter over summer, but whether you can get sunlight out of a box or not is another matter. These bright light boxes cost about $200 and up, but then you have to add in the running costs. The electricity bill for running a mini sun must be fairly horrendous.<\/p>\n
If your place of work is a bit dark, it would be a good idea to increase the light levels. Sometimes it can be quite simple to increase the levels of natural light simply by removing any superfluous net curtains and by fitting longer curtain rods so that the curtains can be drawn right back out of the way of the window allowing the maximum of light to enter your room.<\/p>\n
If this is still not enough, you could fit some wall sconces around areas where you work the most. Wall lights can supply light just where you want it and normally use quite small, low-powered bulbs. A more direct way to light up your work is by the use of a desk lamp.<\/p>\n
If it is a question of needing more light to read by, you could invest in a standard floor lamp. Standard floor lamps are usually about five feet high with a shade. The shade is useful, because it directs light up onto the ceiling, if the shade is open topped, and down onto your book or shoulders. There are other types of standard floor lamp which have a glass or clear cover over the bulb. These will cast more light around the room and will boost general visibility.<\/p>\n
Not being able to see well can easily cause a headache and frequent headaches can be depressing, but before I rush out to buy a ‘bright light box’, I will take the measures outlined above and have my eyesight checked by an optician.<\/p>\n
Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several topics, but is at present involved with researching wrought iron floor lamps<\/a>. If you would like to know more or check out great offers, please go to our website at Wrought Iron Light<\/a><\/p>\n categories: lighting,house,design,remodelling,DIY,energy,security,hobbies,electronics,other,uncategorised,advice,garden,environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you feel in the winter when light levels are reduced? Do you get miserable, weary or even depressed? This phenomenon is quite widely documented and has the acronym of SADS. SADS is or can be pretty serious, but there are probably many many more people who just feel a ‘bit down’ when the sunlight dims. Artificial bright light was developed to help these people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[347,74,43,206,448,391,199,16,273,94,227,368,390,392,369],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-advice","tag-container-gardening-ideas-2","tag-design","tag-diy","tag-electronics","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-garden","tag-hobbies","tag-house","tag-lighting","tag-other","tag-remodelling","tag-security","tag-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}