Overhead fluorescent lights can fill a room with both flicker and sound. The hum presses at your ears while the light seems to pulse, making an ordinary office steadily harder to stay in.
- hearing the ceiling lights buzz throughout a meeting
- seeing a faint flicker above your desk that nobody else mentions
- leaving a brightly lit shop with your head aching
- switching off the main office light and working beside a lamp instead
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
Just complaining about the lights again.
My brain is in an active battle with an invisible attacker.
Looking tired or unfocused.
My system is burning massive energy just to filter out this noise and light.
Seems restless and can't sit still.
My body is trying to self-regulate and discharge the built-up nervous energy from the sensory overload.
Getting irritable over nothing.
My capacity for patience and social interaction is being steadily eroded by the constant hum.
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