After a traumatic brain injury, one person became so sensitive to blue-white light that streetlights trigger anger. Yellow-tinted glasses at night help keep them calm. Both speakers describe how their light tolerance completely shifted after their injuries.
Light now for me is very difficult with the recovery from the TBI, right? So I'm the same as you. I usually have bright lights everywhere and tons of light, but now I—I mean, I'm more of a sunglass girl now. So yeah, like you.
Well, in that you know, light sensitivity is like—it's weird how different parts of the spectrum can affect us so differently because if anything, I maybe I'm still. I need, I need a lot of light, but it's also like I need a lot of bright light. It's almost like my capacity, and I'm almost insensitive to it, so I need to turn it up. And I— there's a certain blue light, blue-white light at night that, you know, if I walk under a streetlight, I will get viscerally angry. So I— So I also wear like yellow-tinted glasses sometimes at night because it just It keeps me being more who I want to be.
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