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Post by rubydrzick on Aug 30, 2023 20:35:07 GMT -5
personally i don't think the modem light experiment really affects me however it could be effecting me in a way that is just going unnoticed. on a normal summer night i would go to bed around 12/1 and sleep for as long as i wanted. however during school i typically go to bed around 11 and wake up around 6:05. my neighborhood doesn't really get very effected by light pollution too much sometimes it is a little brighter outside than i would like it but i don't notice it too much. i think there has definitely been a change in how light is recently rather than what it use to be. i think there are many different things that contribute to bad sleep schedules such as neighbors, neighborhoods, as well as just human distractions. as long as i go to bed at a decent time i do not notice that light pollution effects me much.
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Post by Sasha on Aug 31, 2023 8:55:09 GMT -5
I live in a basement so I don't get much direct sunlight during the day and there are no lights that can go through my window because of trees covering any possibilities of light coming in. I probably get 7-9 hours a sleep including a nap I might take during the day.
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Post by Zelda Molitor on Sept 1, 2023 11:43:59 GMT -5
I would say on average I get around 7 hours of sleep. I don't think that light pollution affects me very much. I do have a lot of windows in my room, however I have curtains that are always closed when I sleep and they block out a lot if not all of the light from outside. I also think that it helps that I don't live in a big city where there is a lot more light outside of my windows. For me right now the only lights on during the night are the street lights, which are easily blocked out by my curtains, and when I go to sleep I turn off all of the lights in my room so that my room is completely dark for my to fall asleep. The only artificial light in my room during the night comes from my phone, which I honestly don't really notice affecting my sleep. I do go on my phone for a little before I fall asleep, however I don't stay on it for too long, and once I put my phone down I fall asleep very soon after.
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Post by JaNyiah Lawler on Sept 1, 2023 12:51:25 GMT -5
I do not think the modern experience with light pollution has affected me that much. I think because we live in Kalamazoo, which isn’t very big or very urban, there aren’t nearly as many lights as there are in New York City or Los Angeles. I sleep well, and I can actually sleep whether it's dark or light. Tired is tired, and when I am it's pretty easy for me to fall asleep. But with all of this, I am bothered by the number of lights on occasion. I live diagonally to an elementary school, and I can often see the lights from it and the lights on the street shining through my window when I would rather them not to. I would like to live somewhere where it was darker at night, just to be able to see the stars more easily than I do now.
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Post by zanderligman on Sept 1, 2023 18:29:14 GMT -5
I think that the experiment of light pollution definitely has affected me, but I'm not really sure how it has exactly. Ever since I was born I've lived and slept in the same house, in the same room, in the same city, which always has the same amount of light outside. So for me I can't really be sure if it has affected me because it has always been the same. I know how badly being exposed to so much light can affect your sleep. Watching movies, playing video games, and sitting on my phone when it's dark outside really messes with my ability to fall asleep. However I don't think that the problem is the light outside, so much as the light in my room that I subject myself to. If I close my door and close the blinds of my windows, my room becomes completely dark so the light outside doesn't affect me at all. However when I'm on my phone at night time, it definitely does have an effect on me.
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Post by Sophia Salinas on Sept 1, 2023 20:01:52 GMT -5
I've seen people on here that aren't as affected as I usually am, but it usually is a problem. I'm sure that if I was a teenager in the 18th century I would always sleep like a baby, I mean apart from the other issues that come from living in the 18th century. On an average I usually get around three to four hours of sleep. My neighbor's outdoor night light always hits my room dramatically and my phone's blue light keeps my eyes pried open for hours after spending time on it. While these are pretty minimal examples compared to some bird's migration schedule being affected because of our over light consumption, it still affects my everyday life. It’s known that sleep deprivation can cause sleepiness, mood swings, short attention span, slowed movements, and worsened memory. The ideal sleeping conditions are dark, quiet rooms where one isn’t affected by their neighbor’s dramatic guard light.
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Post by Nevin on Sept 1, 2023 20:13:55 GMT -5
Every night my goal is to get at least 8 hours of sleep but I find myself consistently falling short of that mark. I fall short of that mark because I am up on my phone which leads me to getting night light or I am playing video games at night which also leads to night light. These then cause me to stay awake longer into the night. Before I had a phone though I found it much easier to fall asleep at night and I was consistently getting lots of sleep every night. I would read and use a overhead light to see the pages but it did not seem to affect my ability to fall asleep and actually made me fall asleep easier because my brain could wind down before I went to sleep. The modern experiment with light pollution has had effects on me and none of them have really been good. I can tell the difference in light pollution in the sky because when I was younger I felt like I could see tons more stars in the sky but now there's seems to be less and less every year, however when I go to places with less light pollution the night sky lights up like it never does here in Kalamazoo.
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Post by Addison Popp on Sept 1, 2023 20:41:31 GMT -5
I do believe that light pollution has had an effect on me, not with my sleep schedule necessarily but i don't see the stars where i live and thats a pretty big impact because i like the stars. I'm sure there's very minor medical side effects like was said in the essay that women have had an increased rate of breast cancer. Before reading this essay I didn't know the extent of the effects light pollution has on animals. The way it can affect plants' ability to grow and animals sleep patterns and migration, in my opinion that affects me because these are our sources of nutrients and it's a part of our habitat.
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Post by Zachary Alexander on Sept 1, 2023 21:19:13 GMT -5
I am extremely guilty of being a prime example of how light pollution can affect humans. I tend to get anywhere between 5 to 7 hours of sleep a night, but it's recommended that I get more. There's usually a source of light in my room during late hours, whether it be an electronic screen or the primary room light itself. I claim to do this because I'm usually not sleepy then, but the lack of light is what triggers the human body to sleep easier. In short, I've been the cause of my own poor sleep schedule. Interestingly enough, my pet tortoise gets way more sleep than I do. I only keep her light on until 10 pm, and I turn it back on whenever I wake up. She also is near a window so natural sunlight can enter, and a false cave with a significant amount of shadow for her to rest in. Her environment works in her favor.
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Post by emma on Sept 1, 2023 21:27:29 GMT -5
I do think that artificial light has had some effects on me, during the school year i tend to get around 7 hours of sleep, and things like my phone or watching T.v. cause me to go to sleep much later than i used to, however i sleep with my curtains closed, making my room pretty dark, so i do not think that it has any effect on the quality of sleep that i am getting throughout the night. Another thing i have noticed is the amount of stars that i am able to see in the sky during the night, around where I live i can see some, but it doesn't compare to how many i am able to see when i travel up north to my grandparents that live in a very rural area, but even there i noticed that i'm not able to see nearly as many as i was able to when i was younger.
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Post by mollylocke on Sept 1, 2023 22:33:22 GMT -5
Yes I do think the lighting up of the night has affected how I sleep in certain ways. In other ways I do not think it has affected me. I have to sleep with some sort of light anyway so an increase of light is nothing negative towards my sleep. I like to have light on when I sleep because I tend to have nightmares so it provides me with some comfort. The part of light pollution that I do think has affected my ability to get a consistent amount of sleep sometimes is the LED light from my phone. I have a bad habit of going on my phone before I go to sleep and it definitely keeps me up longer then when I keep my phone off for at least an hour or two before I go to bed. The amount of sleep I get differs every night based on my schedule so I could not give an accurate estimate on my average night of sleep.
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Post by Khaniel Smith on Sept 1, 2023 23:47:22 GMT -5
In believe that the experiment can affect me in some ways than not. Throughout the summer I had a pretty good sleep schedule and actually was the same sleep/wake up schedule for school up until the last three weeks of summer, my schedule consistent of me waking up at 4:30 AM just to get some sort of digital content before getting ready for school since it was one of my first thoughts when waking up with my phone being one of the main light sources once i wake up. Even though i have the most amounts windows within my house room wise, I still don't get a lot of direct sunlight within my room since one of my windows are covered off by trees so it takes a significant amount of the sunlight I could be getting otherwise and I also sleep with almost no light in my room. Even though I try to maintain a constant sleep schedule with timing it almost never goes that way even though it is around the same time somewhat of when I would like to but that almost never affects when I wake up and have always been an early morning person. If I were to live somewhere with more noise like New York or Chicago I think that would affect me substantially more than light pollution would.
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Post by dadyl on Sept 2, 2023 1:11:50 GMT -5
I would say that in my own personal life I often experience a lot of night light and the nights where I experience it longer will tend to be the nights where I sleep the worst because the sun will come up at the same time no matter what time you went to bed last night. Because of this I can definitely say this experiment with night pollution has had an effect on me
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Post by krystalin on Sept 4, 2023 12:38:42 GMT -5
I would say that light pollution has made an impact on me at night. On school days, I usually get about 7-8 hours of sleep depending on what type of day I have. I be on my phone before going to bed which causes me to fall asleep later on until I get tired. When I was younger I couldn't fall asleep even if there was a speck of light, I would make sure that everything is turned off. The lights on the street doesn't affect me because I have blinds and curtains on the windows. The only light that does effect me is the LED lights that I keep on all night, my chromebook if im working on school work, or if I decide to be on my phone but this is all caused by me having them on. So I would say that it may have affect on others like it does on me.
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Post by Imani Hobson on Sept 6, 2023 12:39:15 GMT -5
No, I don’t think that how much sleep I get changes based on the lighting in the sky. This is because I block out the light when I sleep with blackout curtains. If that wasn’t the case it might affect how I sleep and it would make it harder for me to fall asleep because on the weekend I usually go back to sleep after I wake up. It probably affects other people who don't block out the sun. . I get about 7-8 hours of sleep a night but if I wake up and the sun is out I will not be able to go back to sleep. My sleep schedule is pretty consistent unless I have lots of school work so the light is not something that affects it. Also where I live is not a very lit area like it is in the city where there are lights on all the time from buildings, like it is downtown.
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