I can’t begin to say how long it takes me to begin functioning properly in the mornings these days. Let’s just say that my closest likeness is a zombie in Night of the Living Dead. I shuffle around in a stupor for hours. It’s not pretty. And when I notice how dark it is by 2 in the afternoon, I involuntarily sob. Often. Have I got the “it’s dark in Stockholm” winter blues? You know it.
So when I read in the on-line Swedish newspaper The Local that an energy company in the town of Umea in northern Sweden has installed phototherapy lights in the city’s bus stops, I was impressed. Their reason:” to combat the short days, lack of sunlight, and resident’s depression.”
How amazingly brilliant and forward thinking is that? But what I want to know is when are they installing the lights in Stockholm?
Getting a dose of light therapy at the bus stop. Photo from Thelocal.se.
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I wish we had them, too! I think we are currently on eight hours of supposed daylight, but I could have cried the other day when I realised there was still a month to go before the shortest day. I’m wondering if it hits harder as you get older? I think if there were one by me I would be tempted to dress up warmly, take a stove and a stool and a book and camp out there!
Ha, that’s a good image Jane! I would like to see someone camped out in the bus stop.
On an even more funny note, I read today that the bus drivers are not happy about the lights as they find them to be blinding!
They can always wear sunglasses! They will soon get used to them, it can’t be any worse than when us mere mortals driving normal cars come up against a large articulated lorry that has forgotten to dip its headlights – and they have the luxury of knowing where the bus stops are situated.
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