Thread: The effect of amounts of light in your bedroom.

I think im gonna leave my lights on(or A light atleast) when I go to sleep tonight


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Ok, I have a light thats right behind my bed and its like a thing of 4 fluorescent lights, so I decided right beofre I went ot sleep to turn it on, it was a little to bright for my tastes, so I turned it away from me, and I went to sleep.



In my dream I had One dream where I was fully lucid, then like 3 dreams where I was in and out of lucidity, then I had an FA that I realized immediatly.

I'll have to try it again, but I hadnt had an LD for over a week, and then multiple ones tonight, I wonder if it was just coincidence, or if the light really helped

Originally posted by Awhislyle
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That's great! Might be a placebo effect.. perhaps... but so many LD's! It might really work on some people! ^__^ I think I am going to WBTB tonight, and keep my lamp on a bit.. I don't have to get up till 10 so enough time to (try to) LD n shit 8)

Wow! That is fantastic! Not sure if I could cope with three in one night I'm over the moon if I get two in a month! Pleased to hear sucha a positive result though.

Nearly time here fo beddy-byes I'll let you know the outcome tomorrow

This is very inetersting.

However, I'm not sure it has affected me that much. My room at home is quite light in the morning because, despite being at the back of the house, the curtains are thin. But whether or not I have been having lucids I cannae say, because my recall has plummeted the past two weeks!

I will leave the cutrains open tonight though, see if it makes much difference.

My room in university is very dark, but I can't open the curtains because I live on the ground floor!

This is why I like sleeping outdoors every now and again. It takes you back to the start.

To the time before you were adapted.

Especially if the temperatures are extreme.

Hmm. Not a good night I'm afraid. Left light on dim, but I've had such a disturbed night it is difficult to say if it made any difference. Certainly I had dreams but they were so vague and disjointed that I cannot even understand my notes now it is morning I think I may be trying too many different experiments at the same time. I will still bear it in mind and try again.

I have heard that sleeping with the lights on can damage your eyes. One of my friends uses glasses, and he says that it is because he sleept with the lights on when he was a kid .

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I have heard that sleeping with the lights on can damage your eyes. One of my friends uses glasses, and he says that it is because he sleept with the lights on when he was a kid . [/b]

Don't believe everything you hear. This sounds like it rates up there as a myth, like the 10% of the brain thing.
I couldn't find an exact myth bust for this, but this was close enough:

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Night lights are bad for kids’ eyes. There’s no credible science behind this one, says Toronto optometrist Dennis Bader. Back in 1999, a headline-grabbing study claimed that kids under two who slept with a night light were more likely to develop myopia (short-sightedness) than their peers who slept in a darkened room. Since then, the original researchers have backed away from these findings, saying that their study failed to take into account the fact that myopia tends to be inherited.

Likewise, says paediatrician Cheryl Mutch, kids who sleep with the light on won’t ruin their eyes, but they may have more trouble falling back to sleep if they wake up.

The old admonishment to “Turn on a light or you’ll ruin your eyes!” isn’t true, either. Reading in dim light won’t impair your vision, says Mutch, but all that squinting and straining can give you a headache.

If you can't find evidence about this, then it's probably a hair brained theory or opinion someone formed long ago.

Other eye myths : http://www.grandtimes.com/eyes.html