This is so validating and interesting! I'm autistic and also have ME/CFS, so trying to get bright morning sunlight can vary from unpleasant to downright painful. Red lights on the other hand, I'm fine with. Anything dim and warm makes me happy. :) Thanks for sharing!
Yeahhh some days when it’s really bright I feel so scattered and then I go into the dark basement and I feel my whole body relax and I can suddenly focus?? I also find that some days when I’m fatigued if I just get back into bed I can write again, which breaks like every productivity bro rule bahaha
I used to follow this guy Ben Greenfield 4 years ago. I got really into CrossFit. Long story I never belonged in a CrossFit gym, I am not a libertarian, hate MLM, don’t like cops and don’t worship the military industrial complex and imperial wars. I do love lifting weights and it was good for that but the toxic culture is too much. I went down all these rabbit holes of new ways of training and health and every time it was just a pipeline to the ultra right. That’s how I ended up on Ben Greenfield’s web page and podcast. This was the time when I could listen to Joe Rogan without throwing my phone across the room. He started out as just eat well and get good sleep, with in months he was doing his podcast in a infrared sauna naked riding a bike and getting a full body dermal stem cell injections and doing stuff with seamen, weed, Kratom, and LSD. Then Covid happened and sunning buttholes were In-Vogue. He did the same thing and cited had all these wack-a-do studies than had small benefits if any. All these people obsessed with health, productivity, and ultimate fitness are all right wing grifts. Thank you for your work and if you want to go for a wild ride of pushing the human body check out Ben Greenfield.
I can't help but laugh at some of this light "science", but it's so indicative of norms that really are harmful. I struggled so much with insomnia as a teenager, and though it's still a thing in my life (along with chronic fatigue from disability 🙃) I know without a doubt that if I could have followed by body's natural rhythm I wouldn't have been sleep deprived to the extent I was. Being unable to sleep when you need to is a much bigger deal than we as a culture admit!
I have used red lights in my house for many years because when observing astronomical objects and phenomena, you use red light to navigate and see what you are doing so that the rods and cones in your eyes don’t adjust thus delaying the observing for 20 minutes again until your eyes adjust back to the dark. It made sense to me to have a red sensor light that clicked on when I wanted to go to the bathroom to avoid all the squinting and (often for me) waking up too much. I am now officially embarrassed if anyone steps foot in my home. I need a sign, “I did this before Huberman and for NO moral reasons at all. T_T”
I also am typing this from my pink and purple room that is also always pink and purple, so dark mode solidarity.
This is so validating and interesting! I'm autistic and also have ME/CFS, so trying to get bright morning sunlight can vary from unpleasant to downright painful. Red lights on the other hand, I'm fine with. Anything dim and warm makes me happy. :) Thanks for sharing!
Yeahhh some days when it’s really bright I feel so scattered and then I go into the dark basement and I feel my whole body relax and I can suddenly focus?? I also find that some days when I’m fatigued if I just get back into bed I can write again, which breaks like every productivity bro rule bahaha
I used to follow this guy Ben Greenfield 4 years ago. I got really into CrossFit. Long story I never belonged in a CrossFit gym, I am not a libertarian, hate MLM, don’t like cops and don’t worship the military industrial complex and imperial wars. I do love lifting weights and it was good for that but the toxic culture is too much. I went down all these rabbit holes of new ways of training and health and every time it was just a pipeline to the ultra right. That’s how I ended up on Ben Greenfield’s web page and podcast. This was the time when I could listen to Joe Rogan without throwing my phone across the room. He started out as just eat well and get good sleep, with in months he was doing his podcast in a infrared sauna naked riding a bike and getting a full body dermal stem cell injections and doing stuff with seamen, weed, Kratom, and LSD. Then Covid happened and sunning buttholes were In-Vogue. He did the same thing and cited had all these wack-a-do studies than had small benefits if any. All these people obsessed with health, productivity, and ultimate fitness are all right wing grifts. Thank you for your work and if you want to go for a wild ride of pushing the human body check out Ben Greenfield.
“We never use the big light Andy” so so accurate. Only cave-like dimmness for this brain
I can't help but laugh at some of this light "science", but it's so indicative of norms that really are harmful. I struggled so much with insomnia as a teenager, and though it's still a thing in my life (along with chronic fatigue from disability 🙃) I know without a doubt that if I could have followed by body's natural rhythm I wouldn't have been sleep deprived to the extent I was. Being unable to sleep when you need to is a much bigger deal than we as a culture admit!
I have used red lights in my house for many years because when observing astronomical objects and phenomena, you use red light to navigate and see what you are doing so that the rods and cones in your eyes don’t adjust thus delaying the observing for 20 minutes again until your eyes adjust back to the dark. It made sense to me to have a red sensor light that clicked on when I wanted to go to the bathroom to avoid all the squinting and (often for me) waking up too much. I am now officially embarrassed if anyone steps foot in my home. I need a sign, “I did this before Huberman and for NO moral reasons at all. T_T”
I also am typing this from my pink and purple room that is also always pink and purple, so dark mode solidarity.
this post should be required reading !!!
“which I think appeals to people who prefer to find their truth in data and their priests in scientists” ABSOLUTELY NO CRUMBS LEFT
Awww thank you so much!!!