Psychological effects of Light

Hey dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day full of interesting experiences! In this post, I would like to talk a little about the effect of light on the psyche and hope you can learn new things.

How we perceive our environment is closely connected to the subconscious and also all sensory organs such as the sense of sight with which we perceive light is processed by the subconscious and light has a stronger effect on the psyche than one or the other might want to suspect. It depends on the wavelength of the light how we perceive it and during this, numerous unconscious processes take place in parallel in the brain and through the effect on the psyche there is also a close connection with the physical body and can strongly influence the feelings and ensure that body functions change fundamentally. First and foremost, light is responsible for the day and night rhythm and an important influencing factor here is also the pineal gland, which is also often known as the third eye and is responsible for the production of the hormone melatonin and light damages the production and it depends on the intensity of the light how much the pineal gland suffers. The production of melatonin takes place in the dark and results in people feeling more tired and by the influence of light this process is interrupted and you feel awake and melatonin also affects the regeneration of the body and too little if the melatonin is is to low, you are more susceptible to diseases and our cells are damaged and in addition, this also has an influence on the aging process. Light also has the consequence that the cognitive abilities are influenced and the false light can lead to the fact that you feel stressed and the ability to concentrate is impaired and the absorption of information is disturbed and these negative effects also lead to physical complaints and if, for example, stress is triggered by the false light, this can lead to a whole series of diseases such as burnout, heart or circulatory diseases, shortness of breath, skin diseases, stomach ulcers and many more.

In daylight, the blue proportion of light is particularly high, which ensures that you feel particularly awake and at the beginning of the evening, the light becomes warmer and warmer and has a calming effect on us and warmer colors such as red have a rather calming effect on the body. Light can influence all kinds of emotions and thus the mood is also related to it and this effect can be used in a very targeted manner and a good example is in the marketing area where light is used specifically to change the perception of the customer and thus increase interest. The whole thing usually works so subliminally and it is particularly important to use colors in this context that increase the attraction and create positive emotions such as fun and also the whole thought pattern is influenced by it and subliminally the moments as well as the feelings that you had are stored in the subconscious which ensures that the customer comes more often. This effect of light on the subconscious and the associated can be considered in many ways and if symptoms such as stress have been triggered by the wrong light in a certain place, the probability is higher that you will have these symptoms again in the same place, even if the light is off and if you would like to better understand the topic with the connections, I can recommend visiting this post from me here where I have already discussed it in more detail. The effect of light can be used specifically for healing purposes and there are numerous approaches such as therapies that have specifically focused on using light for healing and it is such a complex topic that constantly surrounds and influences humans, without paying specific attention to it.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about this topic! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.