Empirically, despite there being huge numbers of people with SAD, I don’t observe them flying to another continent for the winter
I learned from family who live in Alaska about “snowbirds),” who live in the North during the summer and the South during the winter. I suspect this is primarily for weather reasons, but no doubt those with SAD are more likely to be snowbirds than those without.
Santiago does have 13 hours of sunlight to Austin or Berkeley’s 11 or Juneau’s 9 (now; the differences will increase as we approach the solstice), so the change is larger, but the other changes are larger as well- having to switch from speaking English outside the house to speaking Spanish outside the house every six months seems costly to me. (New Zealand solves that problem, but adds a time zone problem.)
trying to build their own high-powered lighting systems after they discover that the sad little 60-watt off-the-shelf light-boxes don’t work sufficiently for them.
My off the shelf light lamp is 100W, and seems pretty dang bright to me- but I don’t have SAD and used it as a soft alarm, so I can’t speak to how effective or ineffective it is for SAD.
I learned from family who live in Alaska about “snowbirds),” who live in the North during the summer and the South during the winter. I suspect this is primarily for weather reasons, but no doubt those with SAD are more likely to be snowbirds than those without.
Santiago does have 13 hours of sunlight to Austin or Berkeley’s 11 or Juneau’s 9 (now; the differences will increase as we approach the solstice), so the change is larger, but the other changes are larger as well- having to switch from speaking English outside the house to speaking Spanish outside the house every six months seems costly to me. (New Zealand solves that problem, but adds a time zone problem.)
My off the shelf light lamp is 100W, and seems pretty dang bright to me- but I don’t have SAD and used it as a soft alarm, so I can’t speak to how effective or ineffective it is for SAD.