Incandescent? Flourescent?

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I absolutely have to use incandescents. Fluorescents give me migraines from the nasty blue-green nauseating color. Even the reddish-yellow fluorescents have a nasty flicker problem that gets worse as they approach burnout. Heck, I can tell when a fluorescent is within a month or so of burning out, just by the pattern of pulses I see flowing along the length of the tube. It's nauseating and triggers headaches that are easily as bad as the ones I get from Nutrapoison.

I actually quite like fluorescent because it makes the colors of everything more neutral. Incadescents give everything a yellowish or greenish glow. In an ideal situation I'd have both, so that I could use the incandescents when I wanted the room to feel golden and affect my mood, and the flourescents when I'm working or painting. I can see the flickering sometimes (and also the flickering on my computer monitor) but it's never bothered me.

If I had a proper room, and the
landlord wouldn't mind a mideval
type candle light would do me fine.

I also like candle obrase. I find
either way that candles bring a mystifying
air to a space to match my person and
being.

The study of magic, and the focuses
of a mystic, and furthermore the
omipresent character of candle gazing
can reveal one piercing mind and soul.

I find regular bulb of a computer desk
still appropriate.

Hmmmmm?
Ghosthunter

Ghosthunter said:

Ah yes. And I also wouldn't mind a nice HUGE and lovely old fireplace in my apartment as well (smoke stack included of course). When I have only candles lit or am sitting in front of a fire place, it makes me feel like I am no longer in the present day. It is really like an escape because I am often taken with the days of yore (even though being a woman in those days would have been horrible I'll admit). But I love the lighting of it all. I have the candles set on my desk in their various places, my books all there, touched with a warmer red, and pictures of Galileo and T.S. Eliot and Einstein all on my desk as well. I wish my back weren't so bad; I'd write at my desk more often.

I quite agree. Candles and a nice fireplace make the perfect atmosphere when you don't need the harshness of gas or electric lights.

If we didn't have 4 cats and 4 kids in the house, I would light candles much more often. I have about 100. I had an obsession with candle wax at one time (about 20 years ago). Drove my mom nuts worrying I'd burn the house down.

Next best thing I have is a fireplace DVD.

I prefer near sunlight wavelengths. there is a new type of light bulb that has more blue and a mix of yellow as well. Not a grow light but close does not have uv but most of the rest. Spotlights and misdirected direct lighting annoy me. For example outside street lighting that i like that points 90 degrees to the ground no sidebeams of light The older ones that light down and at a more than 40 degrees to the ground they can be blinding at night and mess up seeing the stars at night. And led light will be great heeh

Speaking of candle wax! when I was
under 28 I studied candle magick .
I got a obsidian, and colored candles
and during a full moon dripped candles
upon it and encompassed it with
natural copper leaf .

I would find my natural force woud flow
from it like a cold-isolated breeze.
My girlfrind of 10years 90'-2000
hated it. It gave her the heevy-jeevies.

I also enjoye going to the Psychic Eye
bookstore on Shoreline and Elcamino .

Oh Gods! They hated me there .
One...I would ground and center
before entering and near this
entrace was a stainless steel
Sir,Knignt with a cheaply hammered
sword. This is where I bought
bees wax candles or hand dripped
candles .

They had candle obra's, hanging
Mideval ceiling candle holders ,
tarot(no interest though) , Runes
(of interest) and misclanteous books on
wicca, ect.

I would study natural witchcraft.
It was quite simple....with tools
and such you flow the task from
within. This was how I learned
wicca and the claw thing that
annoyed my girlfriend at that
time was self-evident of what
ever flowed out that candle
obsidain claw was real.

I like candles in general also.

Sincerely,
Ghosthunter

I use 20w warm white CFLs everywhere - except the kitchen/bathroom which has cool white tubes which burn my eyes if i get up at night.

Although they contain elemental mercury and are rarely recycled properly, using CFLs actually helps reduce mercury pollution - because powerplants will emit more mercury into the atmosphere by running 100w incandescents over the lifetime of the CFL.

Agree about LEDs though - id like to buy shares in an LED company, but im quite not sure where to start. I read about a new development called 'organic' LEDs - might be worth keeping an eye on.

I don't have a real preference - at home I have all incandescent lights, but in the home where I work there's a lot of flourescents. Fluorescent lighting only bothers me if there's an obvious flicker (enough that NTs would notice it too) - then it REALLY bothers me.

Normally fluorescent does not bother me, but if I am using a computer while there is a big bright overhead fluorescent, that does bother me. Gives me eyestrain. When I am using the computer, I turn off the fluorescent and turn on my 20W halogen or xenon MR-16's -- much more comfortable. I also have a halogen desk lamp to illuminate the keyboard to avoid a change of light intensity if my eyes move from the screen to the keyboard. The desk lamp has a hood that means the bright bulb is completely hidden, I see only the light emanating from it, this is also important to reducing eyestrain.

I wish there was something as cheap and energy efficient as CFLs, but that didn't produce whatever frequencies it is they produce. Besides the flicker (which I can see even in brand new bulbs), there's something in the light - especially cool whites - which ALWAYS gives me migraines.

I'd happily try LEDs, but they're so blasted expensive...

Flourescent long life that fits into a normal light socket, they are more economical in the long run and you do not have to keep changing them nearly as often. I fact I have not changed any of the flourescent lights I have fitted.
BTW my autism it not an issue with either type them as long as they are not tooooo bright.

That's what I'm talking about when I say CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light). Unfortunately, even those have that nasty color pattern and the flicker.

The flourescent lights that still use the old ballasts (non-electronic) are the ones that bug me because of the 60Hz flicker. I only buy flourescent lights with electronic ballasts. I've never noticed compact flourescents flickering (except when cold) so I assume they use electronic ballasts too.

The other thing that really bugs me is people who have their CRT computer monitors refresh at 60Hz instead of something like 70 or 75Hz. Same reason - flicker.