Does Light Make You Happy

Happy lights also known as light therapy lamps happy lamps and sad lights give you additional exposure to light when there s less sun in the fall and winter months.

Does light make you happy.

Just like if it was a sunny day and you feel excited the effect is the same. In humans the connection between light and biology is somewhat looser. Rosenthal found that while not everyone is as strongly affected by a lack of sunlight for the people who are light boxes that blast a few minutes of bright light in the frequency of natural. And as for sleep patterns while most people sleep at night and are active in the day there are plenty of people who reverse that to work the graveyard shift.

And melatonin a hormone which promotes sleep. We need cooler blue lighting in the morning to trigger our sympathetic nervous system which is associated with alertness and we need warmer light in the evening to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system which is associated with relaxation williams said.