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Thread Number: 76196
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Do you prefer dark night? |
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Post# 1000271 , Reply# 2 7/14/2018 at 10:12 (2,106 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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 The light on my patio and front porch are on a photo light sensor. There's a motion-sense floodlight over my garage door. Street lights on my street are pretty far apart and causes very dark spots on the street. I could care less about whether people prefer it light or dark. My goal is security. And I live in a respectable neighborhood. The only time the patio light is turned out is when my partner is here and we want to sit out in the dark and hold hands. Neighbors on the side where my bedroom is have a bright light/flood light shining on their side back yard. It's fine with me, otherwise it's pitch black and no doubt it's for both of our security. I have extremely dark drapes in my bedroom so it stays quite dark. I have a small lamp on a sofa table in my den that's on a timer and it's on all night. Before I had this light on all night, my doorbell would ring in the middle of the night and scare the hell out of me. Rarely happens now. Neighbors behind me mostly have their patio light on at night. | ||
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Post# 1000301 , Reply# 3 7/14/2018 at 17:38 (2,105 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Depends
If driving, then no; vastly prefer some sort of light both for safety and to lessen the often hypnotic effects that come from motoring in pitch or near darkness. Avoid using Garden State Parkway and some other roads here locally for this reason. Ditto for driving at night elsewhere in the USA (in particular the south) where for some reason the concept of lighting roadways seems alien.
Otherwise rather do like "pitch black" nights. Far better for sleeping and one doesn't need to use a sleep mask. NYC has been on a tear installing those very bright LED street lights; and there have been no end of complaints. The things are *VERY* bright, and light streets up as if it were daylight. Worse all that bright light comes streaming into windows and pierces all but the heaviest drapes. | ||
| Post# 1000313 , Reply# 5 7/14/2018 at 20:26 (2,105 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
 Dark is nostalgic for me. Growing up, climbed to the roof and watched meteors. In the metro now, one could go on the roof at night and read the newspaper.
What the bright lights do is slam your retinas shut. All lowlight detail is lost. Painful in a way. And all but saturated in light, we still have crime. The lighting salesmen tell us we'd have more crime if not for the damn lights. Well they would say that, wouldn't they? Nothing sells like fear.
Makes me a retro-nowphile. I want things the way they were. Original Life Saver flavors; Pontiacs; stuff like that. Dark at night. I also want a solid gold toilet. And a pony. But it's just not in the cards now is it? | ||
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Post# 1000316 , Reply# 6 7/14/2018 at 20:33 (2,105 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Dark is why we're going to Arizona next month | ||
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Post# 1000322 , Reply# 7 7/14/2018 at 20:54 (2,105 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I am in pitch black once the sun sets here and no neighbors outside lights bother me. Once I jump in bed, turn the light out it is instant dreamland. And I hate driving after dark now as these jerks have to have tons of bright lights to blind you that they think is cool.
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Post# 1000331 , Reply# 9 7/14/2018 at 22:04 (2,105 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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I like for the bedroom to be as dark as possible at night, but we do have a Moonbeam Alarm clock, fortunately this doesn't bother me. But the sun coming thru the window in the morning wakes me instantly. I try to keep the window blinds closed tightly. Whenever I see a movie where they are sleeping with no covering on the windows, I think how can they possibly sleep this way? I used to wear a sleep mask, but no more, just ear plugs, although I’m practically deaf in my left ear now,(I wear a hearing aid in that ear) so the noise is only half the problem it used to be, LOL.
I have always loved to drive at night, especially in the rain. Being in a closed car in the dark with rain pelting around me seems to be like the most safe and secure place on earth, go figure. And my favorite place to drive at night is on a two lane, country road, or the coast highway. I miss the dimmer switch being on the left hand side of the floor board too. And thankfully, even in my 60’s my night vision hasn’t diminished. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1000337 , Reply# 11 7/15/2018 at 00:13 (2,105 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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I don't like sunlight in the morning, so I have black-out shades. Keeps the bedroom quite dark. However, there are many other lights on all night in the bedroom, digital clocks, modem lights, WiFi router lights, power strip lights, illuminated wall switch, illuminated bedside lamp switches, you get the idea. I guess I prefer some light here and there at home. IF I lived in a rural area, I would definitely have, soft landscaping illumination.
LED street lamps in NYC, were indeed too bright, however most have been replaced with dimmer LED's. The real culprit with the new LED's lamps are their intense blue light of 5000 kelvin in color temperature, it causes a myriad of problems, particularly for those trying to sleep. There are calls for the street lamps to be replaced with more color balanced LED's.
Back in February, Gov. Cuomo announced that every street light in New York state will be converted the LED's. Let hope they learned their lesson from NYC. | ||
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Post# 1000395 , Reply# 13 7/16/2018 at 05:23 (2,104 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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I've been on night shift for 25 years so my sleep room is so dark I can't tell if it's daylight or night outside. But lately I've been so exhausted when I go to bed in the mornings I've been falling asleep with my headboard light on and will sleep all day. I couldn't do that before. I don't mind darkness outside to an extent, but ever since our home invasion I have installed more security lighting closer to the house so it is more lit up.
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