04 Aug 2023, 1:26 am
RetroGamer87
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Age: 38
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
05 Aug 2023, 10:29 am
jimmyjazzuk wrote:
what do you do to avoid over stimulation from light bulbs late at night? they stress me out and cause insomnia
Smart lights. All over the house.
People think I have smart lights because I want to turn
the lights on by voice or from my phone. They are wrong.The reason I have smartlights is because I want to turn them OFF by voice or from my phone.
Another tip, if you're sensative to light but you still need light to see by, tell Google or Alexa to turn all the lights red. Red light is a lot less stimulating.
05 Aug 2023, 10:33 am
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
A sleep mask is a must if you can bear the sensory experience of having it on your face.
Yes, it does a good job of keeping the mask from touching the eyes, it does still involve some pressure to other areas of the face. I got used to it pretty fast, but I can totally see people having an issue with it.
Yeah. I think they are helpful & good. But I know of some Autistic people who have sensory issues with them and cannot abide by them.
I'm not even remotely surprised. At that point, you'd stuck with blackout curtains, the thickest you can get and blocking all light sources from the room if need be. You can also buy blackout dots that you can put over bright lights to make them darker as well.
Ooh, I didn't know about blackout dots.
But yes, blackout curtains are very useful for light sensitive folk.
05 Aug 2023, 10:34 am
05 Aug 2023, 11:05 am
blitzkrieg wrote:
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
A sleep mask is a must if you can bear the sensory experience of having it on your face.
Yes, it does a good job of keeping the mask from touching the eyes, it does still involve some pressure to other areas of the face. I got used to it pretty fast, but I can totally see people having an issue with it.
Yeah. I think they are helpful & good. But I know of some Autistic people who have sensory issues with them and cannot abide by them.
I'm not even remotely surprised. At that point, you'd stuck with blackout curtains, the thickest you can get and blocking all light sources from the room if need be. You can also buy blackout dots that you can put over bright lights to make them darker as well.
Ooh, I didn't know about blackout dots.
But yes, blackout curtains are very useful for light sensitive folk.
There's a lot of options these days, and this is enough of a problem for NTs that there's already a market for much of it. My wireless access point even has a setting which will turn its lights off based on a schedule, so I can see the lights during the day, without being disturbed by them at night when I probably don't need to know the status.
A lot of that is an indirect consequence of the invention of blue LEDs.
There's a lot of options, there's also blackout blinds as well. They tend to be honeycomb shaped and a lot thicker than regular blinds. If you then layer blackout curtains over top of them, I'd think you could get it pretty near to completely black.
26 Jan 2024, 5:55 am
