I bought a "light therapy" lamp and it's good

[Friday]

I wonder if full spectrum LED grow lamps would do the same? They run a little cooler and they don't suck al the electricity out of the neighborhood.

Nope. At least not in my experience. My plants don’t like them, either.

But the kinds of plants I grow have months & years long lifespans. (Food stuffs & citrus trees, for the most part). They need oomph to be happy.

They’re (LED) okay for herbs, and indoor/greenhouse plants that receive a lot of natural sunlight (the LEDs are just “extra” &/or to control day/night cycles; but the robust vegetative & fruiting cycles HPS & MH lights provoke? Are replaced with spindly/sickly plants under LEDs.

Ditto, therapy lights… they have a harsh, Almost gritty or sharp sort of feeling in the eyeballs / back of the skull.

It cracks me the hell up, using solar panels to power my plant lights… even though I knoooow it’s not like 1800s egyptologists using mirrors to get light in pyramids? It’s still what’s in my head! Sunlight, to make power, to make …sunlight.

SOMEDAY I’ll have a rooftop greenhouse, and then I’ll take my beach towel & sunglasses & hangout in all the happy-rays, too.

 

[Sideways]

Paint ya walls white. Bounces the light around if you want more light (plants suggest it’s helpful).

I do the exact opposite, covering up white walls with softer neutral tones, to diffuse the light.

 

[HelloToday]

I tried 2 lamps (15,000 lux) each and one of the alarm clocks.

Insterestingly enough, the two lamps were not equally bright... So I chose the brighter one.

The alarm clock I tried simulates sunrise and you could also pick a noise like birds chirping.

It wasn't as bright as the actual therapy lamps tho - I don't think that's where it's benefit lies.

My impression (and it's what my pdoc said too - he uses one too) is that it's a "gentler" way to wake up because the light slowly gets more intense and you can set the bird chirping or stream burbling sounds quite low, so it's not like a regular alarm clock "jarring" you out of sleep, and because the wake up is more gentle, your body and brain are better able to "finish" the 90 min sleep cycle you're in so you wake up feeling less groggy than when an alarm slams into the middle of a sleep cycle...

So, say you need to get up at 7 am to get ready for work, you'd set the sunrise-alarm-clock to 6 am, letting it gently wake you up and also set your regular alarm for 7 am, just to be on the safe side, in case you sleep through the sunrise/birds chirping thing...

The lamps I tried were $40 and $70 (I picked the brighter one which cost $70) and the alarm clock was $30.

I remember them being much more expensive in the past, so was pleasantly surprised by the cost.

Hello,

this is such great info. Idk if you can post it, however, what brand and model for the brighter light and the alarm? I definitely would be appreciative of a pointer :).

Thank you