It is important that those of us who make
decisions about the environments of others, especially children, take the safety and the comfort of their visual experience into consideration. Simply adding blue or ultraviolet light to ambient room light, sunlight or warm white light will NOT help the person who lives or works in the lighted area. It actually does harm. New lighting systems are now available from commercial lighting designers that mimic the part of the visible spectrum of light we receive each day from the sun: mostly blue (4100-5100K) at dawn and early morning, mostly green (3500-4000K) in late morning until late afternoon, and mainly red (2500-3400) at dusk and into the evening. These are shown to be the colors of light that people need at these times. To vary from these guidelines is to dabble with the internal clocks of the persons who live or work in the lighted environment.
By educating ourselves about epigenetic lighting
and basic information about the physiology of human beings, we can provide the perfect light for all persons.
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