There is always wisdom behind the natural order of things. As daytime beings, we fend for life during the day, make ends meet, handle tasks, and even socialize. At night, our body naturally tilts towards finding rest and sleep. For millennia, this has been the way things have always been until the dawn of artificial lighting in the past few centuries.
Every great society now prides itself on how well-lit its environs are especially during the night. Big cities are littered with not just illuminating bulbs in houses, but huge LED billboards that are now a constant feature everywhere. The norm currently is maximum brute lighting that will let you pick up a strand of hair on the ground at night, lofty achievements on the surface, but there are costs too.
Why Brute Night Lighting Is Bad
The body is made in a certain fashion with processes that help it work at its best. One key physiology of the body is the mode it naturally enters at night time. Our body is programmed to produce an important hormone known as Melatonin during the nighttime. This hormone is a key player that helps put our body to sleep, fight depression, and helps the body fend off other significant repercussions. The production of Melatonin gets disrupted whenever there is brute lighting nearby during nighttime. Although you could force yourself to sleep with say a blindfold, the body still detects brute lighting which stops it from creating more Melatonin for the body.
Why We Must Change Our Night Lighting Habits
Modernity is already here, there is no going back. As we become more knowledgeable on the cost of certain human activities such as greenhouse emissions, our efforts also grow in finding solutions that will help us trace our steps back. Improper night lighting is a problem of pandemic proportions, but which gets little to no attention. We can still live modern lives with all the perks without trade-offs with our health. To achieve this balance, we must move away from brute lighting practices especially during the night. A reverse engineering process in our lighting habits is a must. The ideal Nighttime Lighting Setting is one having targeted illumination on objects around us instead of wholesale brute light. Soft ambient accent lighting can go a long way in helping us hit the reset button on our body clocks to take it back to the satisfactory level closer to our original evolution. Imagine a softly lit room with mellow warm light in strategic places such as a lamp by the window, an illuminated ambient coffee table, hidden lights in grooves in the ceiling, and so on. The Neo glass would add a modern touch while simplifying the navigability of your nighttime beverage.
The NEO Glass Future
At Afterlight, we are all about contributing our quota to a sustainable future that allows us to take full advantage of technology without trade-offs on our health. We have spent months designing, fabricating, and iterating a radical new design that will reinvent what it means to enjoy your favorite beverage. The NEO glass is unique illuminated glassware that does not only depict what the future can look like, but also comes with a highly optimized LED technology that will help put your body back to its optimal levels. NEO Glass personifies a bold future that is not afraid to be different, its sculptured accents capture the complete essence of fluid, light, and glass in perfect synergy. NEO Glass brings back natural ambient lighting in a modern form factor. It will blend in seamlessly in your ideal night light setting.
