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Light Triggers

arfie
arfie
Anyone else here suffer electric light triggers? Sure need someone to talk to about it.

Shadows and lights are inexorably and literally linked. Lately I have been wondering if I am triggering on the shadows even more than the glare. When a full moon alters the never changing glare of local security, I find myself deeply disturbed by the shifting shadows.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have that too.I live in a semi to heavily wooded area that produces the shadows from an electic light. Glare from the lights are a trigger for me but the shadows take on a {the shadows are alive affect} .
arfie
arfie
I will never know, but I believe my father was night blind. The man loved his lights. The brighter the better.

To this day I react to light lovers as baby rapers. Can't seem to get past it. I can barely hold myself still for a single light/dark metaphor.

When I hid from him in the fields, I would track him by the shadows of his flashlight. Outside, in the dark, was my greater safety.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Arfie,

Do you help keep your light triggering at bay by having a low-light environ at home when the sun is down? How are you w/ day light? Am just curious, since your light triggering seems an entrenched challenge for you, ...Not really any of my business, but insight often comes from hearing how others deal w/ their very different triggers.
arfie
arfie
Yeah, it is my super gnarly.

The low light environ is the best solution I have found. Dear God, I miss the starlight!

I love the sunlight. Sure there squinting conditions with sunlight, but instinct alone warns me of its hotspots.

Electric lights are random eye jabs. Even more unpredictable than my light loving Papa.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Thanks. My biggest trigger right now is hair salons. don't like to see them, can't go in them.

You should see my self-butchered hair at present.
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