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by dyauspitr 557 days ago
Warm everywhere for me. There’s something about cold white that is very depressing. You would think more blue would mean less depressing but not in my experience.
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Funnily enough we're currently in the process of replacing warm lights everywhere in our house with white lights. The warm lights make us feel sleepy and depressed especially in the winter, where there's already very little sunlight up here in Canada.
What works for me is the combination of warm lights that are very bright.
Yeah, this aligns with me too, as a Swede living in Spain. In the winter time, I need strong indoor lightning that many would describe as cold and almost hostile, otherwise my body seems to go into hibernation-mode by itself. In the summers though, warm lightning is just cozier and doesn't seem so draining anymore.
oh we could write a depressing song called "blue christmas"