@abasket I am thinking something similar. When I come home in the evening I don’t feel like stepping out again when it is dark. It is too easy to sit on the sofa after dinner but it takes effort to step out of the house again during the winter time. I don’t want to become sedentary and the idea of going for a walk in the dark is not appealing. I probably need to get involved in some project. Maybe tackle one room each evening and do some organizing.
I use a light box for about 15-30 minutes a day. It helps with SAD.
Dang. The first DST confusion happened foday. I rushed to the office to attend a live webinar only to find out the presenters started the webinar an hour earlier than scheduled. Lol. They were not sure when to start, so decided to start when they thought they scheduled it.
@raclut We just got one of those alarms that has a light component – I don’t know if it’s a sunrise replication exactly (or operator error and I set it wrong) but it flashed before the bell alarm came on. I was startled that it actually woke me, and getting up was easier than it usually is. Heh. Maybe I need to use it again.
We did get a full spectrum lamp and also a full spectrum light box for our kids in the hope it would help them reset their night owl biological clocks. It didn’t help much but we figured it was worth a try.
I believe I’ve seen the clocks advertised as dawn simulating alarm clocks, light therapy or similar that help simulate sunrise to make waking in darkness a bit easier. A quick internet search brings up quite a few of them.
I wish they had these things and I knew about them when I was in college. I think I had some degree of SAD in Eugene OR winters. I mainly noticed how much better I felt during rare sunny days.
Here’s Paul Tompkins’ bit on DST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EkxFlVqZA
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