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Can orange glasses make you sleep better?

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Re: Can orange glasses make you sleep better?

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Eh, isn't there a huge different between just orange glasses and safety glasses that are designed to block blue frequencies?

I have the Uvex S1933X glasses, and they're amazing. I have pretty cool LED lighting in my apartment and can make my whole living room any color I want at night. If I set in to pure blue and put on the glasses, it's like being in pitch blackness (except a couple of items glow brightly).

It's not like looking at things with an orange tint at all, even though the glasses are obviously orange.

That being said - the benefits I get by using them is amazing. It's weird how much of a difference it can make, I get tired quickly after putting them on in the evening. If I forget to put them on I usually end up staying up too late, getting too little sleep and often ruining the next day. Personally I find it way more effective than flux.

By the way - blue light isn't just a negative thing, but also a huge positive. In the morning I use a Philips goLITE BLU HF3332, and it really improves both my energy and mood quickly after just a few minutes of usage.

Those two simple items, a blue light and a pair of blue-blocking glasses, have improved my life significantly. Try it out (especially the glasses, it's just $9).

Re: Can orange glasses make you sleep better?

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Author of f.lux here: you may want to do some more reading. Most of the range of "alerting" light for humans is between 11-14 log photons/sec/cm^2, so one photon is sort of an enormously huge understatement. For sleeping, it is good to be in a dark room, but for winding down, you won't mess yourself up with dim light. Also, I think it may be poor advice for most people to take melatonin except for "shifting the clock…

To add here: One photon is not going to do anything and you can reason that out from 1st principles. What is the 'noise' of your retina? How often do the nerves attached to your cones (the blue sensitive ones) just fire spontaneously? It's not 0 even when you are asleep. Just from some basic reasoning you can work out there is a noise floor that your body (each likely unique) learns to ignore. From what /u/herf here…

>Note: measurable is not the same as deleterious, but flux doesn't even eliminate all the blue light your computer is putting out, let alone the other sources in your house.

Re: Can orange glasses make you sleep better?

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You can get, for example, Lux Auto Brightness for Android though. Helps me since I read in bed on my phone before going to sleep. Edit: the name notwithstanding, it does more than adjust brightness, including filtering color temperature, much like f.lux

GP's point was that glasses do everything . Nobody is going to port flux to your lightbulb, or TV. ;) Why install N pieces of software when 1 piece of hardware will do?

Well, I find the app more comfortable than glasses when lying in bed...

Re: Can orange glasses make you sleep better?

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As with any medication, side effects vary. When I took melatonin, I would very quickly fall asleep but would still wake up extremely tired. I also experienced very severe depression when on melatonin, that started about 2 days after use, and ended about a day after stopping use. I do know people that have had it work very well for them, however.

That hangover in the morning means you were taking too much, fwiw. If I were you, I'd experiment with much lower doses.

That's very possible, but the depression was severe enough that I'm not inclined to try again.
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