These are orange glasses.
I wear them every night, 6pm until sleep. I’ll wear them out of the house, too.
I wear them because until the advent of artificial light— for more than 99% of human evolution— blue light only existed in the daytime. You see it in the sky. And once the sun sets, only fire-light remains.
So, over hundreds of thousands of years, our evolutionary ancestors adapted to this cue: "when there is blue light, it is daytime". And if we tend to want to be awake when it’s day, it's not unsurprising that blue light would come to be a signal to your body, “Hey, it’s not time to sleep right now. Be wakeful.” (At least this is a logical evolutionary explanation, anyway.)
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But now that we’ve created our own light at night, much of it blue, this association is no longer relevant. But our bodies don’t know that.
So, every night, I wear these glasses. They block 98% of the blue light that would otherwise keep me awake and harm my sleep.
This shows one part of my personality: I like to question assumptions. To dive deep into the areas I want to improve. To tweak and make better.
That’s part of who I am, what I enjoy doing, and what I plan to do.
When I was younger I didn’t have many friends. Never really did. I don’t blame my peers for that— I wasn’t particularly enthralled with them either— but the benefit of this was that I was never motivated to fit in. If I wanted to do something, be something, I’d do it. Ironically this is what my family and friends love most about me today.
I'll wear these glasses out to events. I don’t want to let thoughts about the thoughts of others affect how I’m going to behave.
Orange glasses.
Read about the effect of blue light-blocking glasses on sleep »
Posted 2020 July, last updated 2021 January 5.
Update: I now wear red glasses, so I need to eventually change this. I also need to update the science page this page links to for the same reason.