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SAD monitor
If depression leads you to spend too much time here | |
Surely it is inconvenient to have to have a light box in one's visual field for up to two hours several times a week. On the other hand, many of us spend too much time here, and for that matter too much time looking at a monitor generally, and we get depressed.
Clearly the best solution is to get
out more, but in the meantime, a very bright monitor with a particular spectrum could be useful. It may be that the usual pixel colours don't cover the right part of the visual spectrum for this to work, but in that case, extra, violet, pixels could be used to ensure the light was daylight-like enough, with the possible added benefit of more realistic colour for video and photographs. Maybe there could even be pixels emitting the right frequency of ultraviolet light to provide a suntan and help synthesise vitamin D. If extra pixels weren't necessary then wallpaper, webpages and other documents could be designed to use a particular hex triplet closest to natural light.
In order to avoid insomnia, the light could change according to the time of day, so that as the sun set, the monitor could turn orange and eventually midnight blue, with text complementing these colours so as to be easily legible. Also, such a monitor setting could be used for jet lag.
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Hmmm? My windows are grey text on a black background. I wonder....
That would be great if my monitor could slowly put me to sleep. This is a neat idea. Surely monitors would need to be reconfigured. And your computer could manage the task of making sure you are getting just enough ultraviolet so that the D combats skin cancer and not too much so as to cause skin cancer.
Set chosen time to go to sleep and the computer will know when to start gradually relaxing you. The same program could have some input into the muisc played from your play-list.
For what is SAD an acronym? |
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Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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<she says weeping in the dark> |
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[po] You get up painfully early it seems. That can't help much. |
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You must be reading the wrong stuff here, teenth! Sometimes I come here when I am depressed but I have seldom left here that way. Quite the contrary. This is where I come when I need a giggle or guffaw, a friendly nudge in the ribs, or a good old-fashioned belly laugh. This is my happy place! The goodness I get from each visit more than eradicates any SADness this actual activity might bring about. |
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[Canuck], being here doesn't depress me most of the time, except for the occasional troll, but i do think working indoors in the winter probably isn't very good for one's mood, and i personally do use computers and the internet to escape depressing realities, just as someone else might get drunk. However, i agree that this is generally a happy place, though of course it's "not the happy cuddle club".
On the subject of skin cancer, i think the carcinogenic frequency is not the same as the vitamin D one. I'll find out.
I suppose the actual colour scheme could also help, as in dialogue boxes, title bars and so forth, and the sun going down with shadows on the 3-D effects getting longer would also be fun. |
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Can we cuddle if we want to? Let it be known. I am open for cuddles.
Hey, it's funny: I'm using the HB for a cheer-me-up this morn. No details. |
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I suppose so, presumably it would be up to the moderators. I hope you get out of this soon, [jscottpete], but i could understand if you didn't given the decades of it i've had. |
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//in order to avoid insomnia//
So that's why I'm having trouble sleeping... |
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*walks over to [jscottpete] and gives him a big hug* |
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I heard someone was talking about SAD and giving out hugs? |
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:-) Melting :-)
If this means *HUG* then I propose that this *[-----]* is hugging said baker. Well, I just inadvertantly gave a long tight hug to dasher boy.
Here's one for *[Susan]*
There is nothing *[pathetic]* about needing a hug.
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What would a group hug be then? Would it have curly brackets? |
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you get your curly brackets off me, now! do you hear? |
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jsp - lie in tomorrow, don't wake me till noon. zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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+ for the D3. Winter is almost here. |
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Those bastards in the southern hemisphere are gearing up for summer. And the wusses in the tropics got it good all year long. Doh.
Thank god for insulation, wood pellet heat and blankets. And hugs help, too. Good night every one. *{ [ ] }*
So tired and busy the last couple days, I just keep coming back to this thread for a quick HB experience. And itt is a very warm thread. |
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