Bright lights

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Is anyone else senstive bright lights when they wake up.
This occurs in the middle of the night when lights were not turned off.

Yes, I dislike bright lights at all times. Never go outside without sunglasses.

My eyes are very slow to adjust to changes in brightness in either direction - including when my eyes have been closed for some time (accommodation is the proper term IIRC). I keep a little LED torch by the bed so that if I need to go to the loo in the night, I can do it without blinding myself with the room lights. Once I'm adjusted, I'm usually OK - I'm more sensitive to flickering and odd lighting colours than I am to brightness (most fluorescent lights are really horrible).

Going into darkness is actually worse for me. I have quite prominent "visual snow" and migraine-like visual disturbances most of the time, which I can ignore quite easily in good light. Turn off the lights, and they're all I can see for several minutes until my eyes have adjusted - even then, they obscure stuff in the shadows.

yes bright lights do effect me, ie bright sunlight, flouros tend to be different and spin me out a little/alot.... Always wear sunnies wherever i go even in winter... and tend to prefer total darkness when i sleep, because even a monitor that is on will be still bright enough to effect my sleep when eyes are close.

Bright lights are my number one mortal enemy. We go way back.

Even when it's overcast outside, I always wear sun glasses.

I don't understand people who have to have harsh bright lights all the time.

Me no likey bright light indoors or outdoors. My room is dimly lit.

I don't usually like overly bright lights, but they don't bother me a whole lot. Outdoors it's worse, because I can't see straight ahead in bright sunlight. Maybe my eyes are just sensitive. I don't think it's really a hypersensitivity issue, though.

some people's visual processing systems have a wider dynamic range of operation, than others- those are the gifted ones who can cope without sunglasses in bright glare as well as see well in the dark.

I was born with a rare low vision disorder that causes me to be more sensitive to lighting conditions.

I think that kind of night blindness is fairly common across the board----once light affects your night vision, it can take up to 20 minutes or so for it to stop affecting you. If I have to get up in the night to use the bathroom, I always do it in the dark, and urinate sitting down on the toilet to avoid having to turn on a light.

It happens even in the afternoon.
I was actually following my Primary Physicians advice and resting. My wife turned on the overhead light to read the thermometer.
She quickly said Oh yes, turned the light off and got the reading in the hall. My Help Mate is wonderful.

I am sensitive to all lights, but more so after i wake up.

I think it happens to everybody when they first wake up. Some people have a stronger reaction to light from the dark when it's all of a sudden. I can remember in school when lights would go off and then lights go on after the video would end and kids would react to the lights being turned on and I didn't have reaction. They would jump and go "oh" and rub their eyes like someone had flashed a light in their face.

But yes lights do always seem bright when I wake up and turn on a light. I would squint and then my eyes would adjust after a few minutes. They even hurt my eyes too.

I sleep in a darkened room, and when I get up and open the door to the outside, it is blindingly bright. I duck back inside and I see a bright afterimage of such for several minutes.