Fascination With Lights

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Not so much now, but I was majorly fascinated with lights. In fact, there's a funny story that strongly drives the point home. When I was little, my family took me to this community (or maybe college) theater play for children. It had characters from famous fairytales interacting together. It was supposed to a parody; for instance, the Big Bad Wolf came to the Snow White cave, and she told him he had the wrong house, and he'd threaten to blow it down anyway. In between those skits, the characters would dance onstage, sometimes all facing the audience, sometimes in deliberately mismatched partners (Little Red Riding Hood with Puss in Boots, for instance), to fast music and flashing colorful lights. The dance scenes between character skits were meant to function as a theatrical equivalent of song choruses.

Those lights mesmerized me! I ended up missing much of the play, because I was so focused on the moving, flashing lights. I stared at the projectors with a transfixed look in my eyes. As a result, I ended up missing most of the music and the skits in the play, let alone the ironic humor behind the mismatches in partnered dancing characters. My family even had to keep slapping me on the shoulder to bring me back to reality.

My fascination with lights today is limited to preferences for certain spectrums. For example, I can't stand the bluish, hospital-like glow of LED's of any kind, and strongly prefer the warmth of incandescent light bulbs (inside) or sodium vapor lamps (outside).

Forgive my ignorance - this is uncharted territory for me - but I've always considered my fascination with lights to be an oddity. Maybe it is, but why would I want it to be any different?

Next time someone asks "what's with the lights?", I'll point out that I am en'light'ened, and unfortunately, they are not...

Jo_B1_Kenobi - The dappled light in that clip is amazing – it looks like it is alive and telling a story.

Badguy - I'm curious about the flipping the light switch on and off... If it was a pulsing light or a strobe light, would that interest you as much? Or is it the flipping of the switch too - not just "because you can"?

I wouldn't say fascinated, but I do like looking at Christmas lights or city lights at night.

I too have an obsession with lights as well. check out my Christmas display I do every year.



And here is a behind the scenes tour of how it all works.

I have loved lights since I was very young. I was obsessed with lights and light bulbs and carried them around as a young autistic child.

I've grown up, so I don't carry light bulbs around any longer. But I still love lights as much as when I was a young, classically autistic child. I absolutely adore the Christmas season because I love all of the sparkly lights. I am very sensitive to noise, but I am able to put that sensitivity aside in order to see and enjoy fireworks. I LOVE fireworks. I love any sort of lights.

I remember really liking Christmas lights during most of my childhood years. I liked them enough that I remember wanting them as a Christmas gift.

World's largest LED display art installation:

I love lights as well. Lots of different colours, nothing too bright or flashy though. I don't like things that flash quickly either. I particularly like those little hand held lighting up toys - the kind that I think people take to nightclubs. I had one, but my son snaffled it off me

I like individual - singular lights or point of light - small bulbs.

Light switches that light (LED) up when switched on has been in my cart.

Candlelight is very contemplative, quiet, conducive to deep thought. It's such a tiny, frail light but it has the power to get inside you, bringing with it a sense of tranquillity. The very act - almost the ceremony - of lighting a candle is very powerful.

There's an old Orthodox saying that sums it up: 'To light a candle is to pray'.

As in seeing my grandmother lighting the Shabbat candles.