I had great success reflecting 80,000 lumens of work lights off my living rooms ceiling during winter for a couple years.

At a new home, I remodeled four rooms to have three bands wide of LED lighting surrounding the ceilings, hidden from below by cove molding. It is an actual sunny day, with an “an actual” sunny sky inside. Winter, midnight, eclipse? Not a concern.

Having all that intense light reflecting off entire ceilings creates soft diffuse lighting, no shadows, even though it is extremely bright.

Helped a lot with waking up and avoiding depression, all year round.

On the sleep treatment, anything that can help sleep is good, my body has always operated well on a 30 hour day, which means terribly almost all the time, by default. But I do a lot of things that help, so my sleep is pretty good most of the time.

I would see sleep aids as a pretty narrow interventions relative to my ADHD.

Correlation would be nowhere near equivalence.

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baoooooooooooo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Ah on the 30 hour day: I had some success living a 28 hour day for a few months, which has the nice property of meaning your awake hours are identical week to week making it at least somewhat possible to interface with polite circadian society.

6x 28 hour days pack cleanly into a 7-day week, so all Mondays you wake at the same time, then all Tuesdays you wake 4 hours later and so on. It was one of the most productive times of my life but ultimately left my partner feeling unhappy and lonely.

Fuck it we do our best with 24 hour days…

	▲	Nevermark 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Your comment prompted the epiphany that I am a natural 4-cycle per 5-day person. That's enough synchronization that I am going to give some thought to what the crossovers times with "normals" will be, and may try it. Synchronizing across M-F, then adjusting between Friday evening and Monday morning, to repeat.

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brailsafe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The 30 hour day feeling resonates. If I have no external schedule or I'm just living as I see fit, I end up gravitating to 3am bed, ~12pm wake sorta schedule. The only real problem is that it's functionally incompatible with jobs and many other services, even fully remote

	▲	hax0ron3 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same. For me it's more like 4-6 am bed. I also work best in long bursts of up to 12 hours, with days of full rest in between bursts. I don't do well with a five days a week 9-5 work schedule. And timeline urgency / time pressure tends to do well at putting me into deep flow state, whereas it can be hard for me to get into flow state for work otherwise.
	▲	casualscience an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Live on East Coast, take a west coast remote job. 9am Meeting is noon. I did this for several years. It works great

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mjburgess an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can confirm this effect. One winter I left 2x300w living room lights on perm, and it had a dramatic effect. The only issue is that its nice to turn lights off at night, and if you do that, now you're in habit-dependent territory.

	▲	landrew_ an hour ago \| parent [-]
		one thing i've been paying the adhd tax on is automating / making habits lower activation energy. smart bulbs / blinds are a great thing for me especially when i am already in bed and have too much executive dysfunction to walk 3 feet to the light switch / shade

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conception 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This sounds amazing- do you have part list or pics/write up?

	▲	Nevermark an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I had a contractor and an electrician! There is some significant power draw. It’s been five years, so I expect the best components are different, more efficient and cheaper. In winter, the lights can be considered part of my heating system. In summer, windows get opened. If I did it again, I would have some little fans up there expelling air from the cove directly outside. But that is fine tuning. I am really happy. (When the lights are on. /h)