My Little Experiment with Blue Light Stuff
Okay, so I kept hearing about this blue light thing. From screens, phones, you know. Supposedly bad for your eyes, messes with your sleep. My eyes definitely felt tired after staring at the computer all day, like really gritty sometimes. Sleep wasn’t great either, but who knows why, right? Could be anything.
Anyway, I decided to give these blue light glasses a shot. Didn’t want to spend a fortune, just grabbed a cheap pair online. They looked kinda like regular glasses, maybe a slight tint if you looked hard.
When they arrived, first thing I did was put them on and look at my monitor. Everything went slightly yellow. Not like crazy yellow, but definitely warmer. It was a bit weird at first. Felt like I’d messed with the color settings on my screen.
I remembered reading somewhere you could test them. Like, hold them up to a white screen. So I did that. Opened a blank document, held the glasses in front. Yep, the white part seen through the lenses looked yellowish compared to the screen around it. So, guess they were doing something filtering-wise. They say these things only block a bit of the blue light anyway, not all of it.
I wore them pretty consistently for about two weeks while working.
- Day 1-3: Still getting used to the yellow tint. Felt a bit odd. Didn’t notice much difference in eye strain yet.
- Week 1: Maybe my eyes felt a tiny bit less strained at the end of the day? Hard to tell. Could’ve just been me wanting them to work. The yellow tint wasn’t bothering me anymore, got used to it fast.
- Week 2: Honestly? I wasn’t convinced. Some days my eyes felt fine, other days they still felt tired, glasses or no glasses. Didn’t notice any major change in my sleep pattern either.
Then I read another article, or maybe it was a study someone mentioned, saying there wasn’t much solid proof these glasses actually prevented eye strain from screens. And that kinda matched my feeling. It wasn’t this big night-and-day difference.
So, where am I now? I stopped wearing them religiously. Sometimes, if I know I’ll be glued to the screen for hours, especially late at night, I might put them on. Maybe it helps a little, maybe it’s just a placebo making me feel like I’m doing something. Hard to say for sure.
My takeaway? Didn’t hurt to try, they were cheap. But wasn’t a magic fix for my tired eyes. Maybe the real fix is just, you know, taking more breaks from the screen. Easier said than done though, right?
