Hearing lights in stores.

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Evil, evil, evil, those lights are. Flicker, flicker, flicker. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The local Safeway has removed the fluorescents in the vegetable area, and seems to have reduced it in other parts of the grocery. Yay! I can't stay in a regular store with those lights, and at work, it makes me crazy.

Personally, I can't stand the things. Because of the flickering they tend to give me a headache after awhile. Many times they also make me nervous. Due to times of necessity where I have had to put up with these abominations, I have learned to 'tolerate' them.

I had a friend that had a overhead light I noticed he never used. Once whilst visitng him, I happened to turn on the light and found out why. The ballast was completely wonky! Needless to say, I immediately switched it off.

I only have one flourescent light in my flat. It is in the kitchen over the sink. I generally try to avoid using this but as it is the brightest light in the room sometimes I have no choice. Seeing that it belongs to the flat I can't replace it with an incandescent fixture.

Unfortunately for those in Australia, it looks like flourescent may be the only option that is soon available. This could be a problem for those with sensitivities to flourescents. Being that not only are some ASD people but also NT's sensitive to flourescents you woud think something could be done for them (at least for home lighting).

Back when amber and rose tinted glasses were the trend for working on the computer all day long, I found those lenses actually helped reduce that effect for me. That's also true when I drive. I prefer amber lenses. You might want to check into that for the light visual issue. For the noise, I wonder if ear plugs might help just while you are in the store? Obviously you wouldn't want to do this all the time and the best idea is simply to leave your child at home, but sometimes if you are single and without a big support system, this is impossible, so maybe the ear plugs would help. I have no idea if it would, it's just a suggestion.

Fluorescent lights are the tools of the Devil! Their flicker and hum drive me up the wall.
Sometimes if I am in a very quiet room I can hear the high pitched whine of an incandescent bulb
just before it burns out.

not only do some lights make real acoustis noise, quite a few of them emit electromagnetic radiation in freqs that some of us are directly sensitive to. further, these cheapo compact fluorescents can emit radio frequency and mess up AM reception.

Also, CRT televisions with bad flyback oscillators can emit freqs interpreted as sound by our nervous system.

This stuff has caused me much grief.