Very fascinating stuff here. I'm a huge fan of natural light. I tend to feel less stressed out and work better with natural light than artificial light. I wonder if anyone feels opposite.
> That would look really cool, but would do little for receiving the health and mood benefits of natural daylight. Or for the sense of being connected with whatever is out there.
Add in some more light sources around the display that stimulates sunlight (something like CoeLux) and you might be able to get at least the mood benefits and some of the health ones too.
Artificial sunlight therapy is frequently used in countries that gets very dark during the winter, where there isn't many sunlight hours. I remember some friends many years ago went to those kind of therapies in the winter times and felt benefits from it. Not sure exactly what light sources they used, but if you can manage to buy those, maybe it'll be at least a bit better?
> remarkable! how did people ever live without this before?
In a sense, they didn't! When you're outside, the sun and sky already provide "a million different shades and intensities" of ambient light, depending on the time of day and the weather. Those fancy colored light systems could be seen as replicating that variety indoors.
This is very interesting. I hope to see treatments that not only uses melatonin and environmental light, but one that also modifies artificial light (indoor/computer/phone/TV/etc...) to optimize wellness. Kind of a F.lux of Things.
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