I tried another one of those weird teabags I bought last night. This dream was more bizarre than the last (Tom Hiddleston in drag with Minnie Mouse ears). I was hiking across South America with a huge brown bear for company and communicating with it using hand signals. After that I was trying to launder a pile of underwear the size of Mt Everest in a washing machine in the middle of the bedroom of a house I sold 16 years ago. It’s all too weird, not drinking it again 
What a weird article. I use a LED therapy light for SAD - obviously only in the morning. The exposure to blue light from a smart phone or normal room lighting is minimal and LED bulbs are often brighter and bluer for places like the bathroom and “warmer” or less blue in bedrooms. Strong blue light is not so pleasant but there is no evidence that LED lighting is having a negative health effect compared to thermal light bulbs.
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I bought one of those alarm clocks that is supposed to wake you up gradually by mimicking daylight. Absolutely hated it, I bought it in Scotland and brought it to Basel, ended up taking it back to Scotland again and it’s in a cupboard in my house there 
When those ugly shaped low energy bulbs first starting being sold I had them in my livingroom but after using them for a bit I started getting headaches. My optician told me they were seeing patients with headaches and eyestrain frequently caused by reading by those bulbs. I also never liked they fact they stuck out above the lampshades.
I went out and bought a massive supply of traditional light bulbs before they banned them.
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We’ve got a cache of incandescent bulbs…don’t know what to do with them.
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Yes, those CFL bulbs and early LEDS were not great. Modern LED lights are much better and some are adjustable for reading or just ambient light.
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The problem is that they flicker very rapidly, your eyes dont catch the flicker but your brain does.
Its like a neon tube on the fritz.
" your eyes don’t catch the flicker but your brain does" Ok, what are you on?
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He’s got a point.
Your eyes are just a vessel to transfer light information to your brain - they don’t care in what form the information is coming in.
It’s your brain which is making sense of that and sometimes it can’t - it’s why epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights and people with concussion feel like blacking out when looking at LCD screens.
Just wondering if the Sun does that to people with migraine.
Or maybe…there are no intrinsically bad things, only sensitive people. Heck, pollen is literally new life, but new life can make other lives quite unpleasant anyway.
Pollen is a bukkaki from plants, remember that next spring when your eyes are red.
I never had hay fever until I moved to Basel. Now it gets triggered every year when there are lots of yellow bushes that look like broom around, a friend told me it’s actually a type of hazel. I get a sore raspy throat as soon as I walk past it. My tinnitus in one ear disappears when I go back to Scotland and am by the sea for 2 or 3 weeks, then it returns in Basel. Thankfully I’m not kept awake by it.
On flicker: The Myth of Flickering LEDs – Amerlux Blog
Light flicker of high frequency is sensed by the eyes. If it does not affect vision it may have other effects such as migraines etc but there is no evidence that high quality LEDs affect people, though those who consider themselves sensitive are difficult to convince.
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Hazel and Alder pollen are already in the air. Should peak mid-February.
That was interesting.
So supposedly it is all a myth that even a BBC reporter fell for?
hey, hey! some respect to my bees, who are already feasting on it. 
Bees eat pollen… I knew Bees were kinky.
Happy Monday everybody, happy very early Monday… insomania strikes again.
Yuk, this sucks!
A couple of tips. Firstly have you tried using a lavender pillow spray?
Second one is something I was taught by a psychologist 20 years ago when I was having cancer treatment. Close both nostrils between thumb and index finger. Open one nostril and breathe in, then close it and do the same with the other nostril. Repeat 10 times on either side. It makes you feel sleepy and works for me.
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Oxygen deprivation 
It makes sense, we feel sleepy in a crowded train car.
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