Lights at home

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I turn on the lights when it gets dark and leave them off in the daytime or when I'm watching TV or a movie.

I'm with AspicViper.

Funny thing is, my wife's the polar opposite. Walks into a room, turns on the light. The only thing that sometimes bugs me is that when she leaves the room, she forgets to turn off the light. I can literally follow her around just turning things off... lights, appliances, faucets, etc.
Nice thing is that one principle we operate on is: whoever it bugs fixes it. F'rinstance, it bugs me when she leaves teabags in the teapot til they start growing new forms of life... so I take care of it. Vice versa, it bugs her when the washing machine is running because she keeps thinking that the sink that the washer drains into is overflowing... so she goes down and checks it instead of asking me to.

I use lights if I need them, but people annoy me who walk into a room and switch on the light when it's broad daylight, or they're just going to use the toilet or some such. How much light do you really need for that..?

My most comfortable indoor state of light is very bright sunshine outside, with curtains drawn. That bright-yet-dim I find very relaxing.

I absolutely need to have the lights on whenever I'm in the room. I also turn on the lights in all the adjacent rooms, or close the doors to them. I get really uneasy whenever there's a door open into a dark room. Maybe it's left over from the childhood. I would play in the living room, and there was a chandelier that scared me in the hall. It looked especially scary when the hall was dark, and the light from the living room shined on the chandelier.

Occasionally, or only when I really need to see something. My dad asked me a couple times while I was reading "don't you need the light?" I sometimes read with the lights off during the day. I'm sitting here at the computer with the lights not on right now. I can see fine.

My daily rhythm at home is such that I read or do something else like that during daytime, and when it gets too dark, I begin using the computer.

So, in winter I use the computer more.

I have cataract so I need a lot of light to see, I strain my eyes if there is not enough light in the room. I would probably be a lot in the dark if my eyes were ok. I don't use the light in the bathroom, instead I leave the door open and turn on the light on in the hallway outside the bathroom.
I don't see well in darkness, so I don't like to sleep in a room with no light. I wake up and am scared because I can't see a thing.

When im on the comp I have lights on but they and the landing lights have to be off when I am going to bed cant sleep with the slightest bit of light

I am very particular with my lighting. I like natural light, but cannot stand may types of artificial lighting. In my home, I don't have curtains over some of the windows, and only have blinds, which stay open most of the time during the day, bathing the inside of the house with nice full-spectrum sunlight from the outside.

One of the issues that I have is not so much the amount of light, but the way it is aimed. I cannot stand direct sunlight, or any source of light directly in my eyes...IE glare. Around my house, I have soft, indirect lighting with "natural sunlight" bulbs. They have solid-state ballasts in them so they don't flicker. In the evenings, when it's dark out, I also lower the amount of ambient light around me. That has a calming effect on me, and prepares me to go to sleep at night.

Since I am rather concious about wasting energy, I tend to turn things off when I leave the room, so my house generally appears rather dark most of the time, since I only use lighting in the rooms I'm occupuying.

I wear sunglass outside and inside with intense incandescent or fluorescent lighting of any intensity.

I have lights on most of the time unless I'm getting plenty of light through my window. I like my light bright during the day but I dim it down as the night progresses. As I'm getting ready for bed, I usually have it very very dim in the room. I'd say that, on average, the light in my room is dimmer than most other people's. Really bright light gives me a headache. I sleep with a blindfold because I can't stand any light when I'm trying to sleep.

I have to have a certain quality of light to be happy. I like playing with color a lot in my room. I live in a little dorm room and, of course, I have an ugly fluorescent on the ceiling. I hardly used it until a month ago when I got some deep blue theatrical color gels that I put on the inside of the cover. It is a pretty cool effect but I think I'll replace the blue with a really warm amber in which case I would probably use it more. For my desk, I have an old fresnel lighting instrument that I refit to take 100 watt household bulbs instead of the 750 watt lamps that usually go in it. I found that putting a light lavender gel in it made the light a little easier on the eyes and made text stand out well. I also have several indirect incandescent lamps with light brown or red gels in them. Yes, I am crazy about lighting.

All the time in the dingey English winter, i.e. now. I get SAD so need as much light as I can get.

Corcovado: it is.. works quite well for us. We tend to be pretty reasonably about most things and as such only wind up arguing once a year, maybe. This year we seem to've skipped that and just had both of us grumpy with SAD or something... except for the odd day or two here n there, this winter it's been overcast and rainy almost nonstop since October. Getting a little tired of it, I think I'm ready for some sunshine.

Corvus... nah, she also answers the phone, since it doesn't tend to drive her nuts, the way it does me.

With the exception of the week that we had my folks visiting, this winter more than most I've just felt like putting on the sweatpants and a t-shirt and hibernating in bed.

I'm mostly in the dark except for eating and reading. If somebody visits, I turn on all the lights but I can hardly wait to turn them off again. This winter, I'm getting an Ott light (http://www.ottlite.com/) for Vitamin D. I hope I can stand to sit under all that brightness. Wouldn't it be neat to be cheerful at the end of February?