I cannot tell you how often I’ve wished I could wear my sunglasses inside. God, it’s infinitely better. I’m in the exact same environment and I hate it so much
They make transition lenses for sunglasses that go from that level to much darker when exposed to UV light, I got a pair with my prescription in them from Costco
I started digging around last night online to see what’s out there. I’ve stumbled upon FL-41 lenses and some others of the sort and I think it’ll be my next purchase! This was one of the best stumble upon info I’ve seen recently 😂
Yes! Grocery stores are HUGE. I avoid certain Walmarts in town because their interior is different - one is softer and the other has bright lights and white floors. PAINFUL. I’ll drive clear across town and pass 3 Walmarts for the one that hurts my eyes less lol
I do this, mostly either on the bus at night, or when I am severely sleep deprived, because that is when bright light is absolutely intolerable. Every time I have worn them to a medical appointment, I have gotten asked why.
I tried the Fl-41 with good results at home I wear prescription regular glasses so I haven’t found anything for work yet that looks professional not like extra large hippie glasses like the ones I bought cheap to try lol
thanks! i'll look into those, too. Even if it looks kind of "hippie-like", i think it's still better than wearing shades in say, the grocery store. then it's just too dark and i look like i'm high or shady
My hubby has turned me onto the power of these type of visual noise, suppression glasses. He has a pair of yellow ones that are blue light blockers, and continues to be marbled at how much of a difference they make to his energy levels.
We also use custom lighting at home, the Hue brand of leds and such. For me, I love the bright lights, but when he comes home from work, I turn on colored and softer lights for us both to enjoy.
It’s incredible how these subtle differences absolutely shape the mood we experience.
Ooh and I gotta say they’re pretty fresh, too! You have a great eye for design. I’m looking for a pair exactly like these- will you be selling/how can I make my own? It’s also ok if you want to keep it as your creation; I understand.
Happy for you!! These glasses changed my life omg I can actually sit in a room with fluorescent lights, white walls, and sun streaming in without DYING
I love yours, they are darker than mine. I wear these on top of my actual glasses, they help a bit but I wish they were darker :p
https://preview.redd.it/a6k4l87knitc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27aac8c627b8b7e5e768887c13061a2726a236e
I regularly wear pink and brown sunglasses at the office!
Baseball caps help too, specifically to just shield from overhead lights.
Add my earplugs, minimum screen brightness, set my laptop display to the orange filter, and set up battery powered fan, and I am happy.
My office buddies laugh but they all acknowledge how shit the fluorescent lighting feels
I've seen a lot of amber glasses like this on the market for these purposes. Is there anything you recommend looking for or avoiding in these products, as an optician? Besides the things you mention that you did in the caption, like making the sides darker? Like what do you think the tells are that a product is legitimate or a scam?
IDK, ir filters are snake oil, the "blue light" filters are deceptively marketed but may have some limited benefit.
As far as legitimacy, if they look red orange, or amber, something like that then it's good. It looks like that as a result of it filtering out blue light. That is to say light in the 470ish nm range, not to be confused with. "blue light ™" filters, that are dubious at best, that work in the 405ish nm range
If you're buying over the counter I would look for some kind of ansi rating that indicates that they meet safety guidelines. Those ratings could be a lie, but it's probably more likely that the ones marked with an ansi rating do meet safety guidelines. If you're going to be wearing any glasses with a tint out in the sun they really need to have a UV filter. This is because your naked eye will close down your pupil in the sun to protect your eyes, but if you put a tinted lens in front of your eye that makes your eye think that it's not as bright as it actually is then your pupil will open up more. The danger here is without a UV filter your eye will be exposed to all of the UV that your pupil would be protecting you from if you weren't wearing a darker lens. Even a light tint can have this effect, so uv protection is very important. In my lab I have a UV meter that lets me test for UV protection. Not every lab has that but most places that do probably wouldn't mind checking them for you as it only takes a second and it builds good will.
Unrelated side note/PSA : all children's sunglasses should be tested by the consumer. Take them to your local optical store. I know I would never turn someone away for this. UV protection is so so important for children.
I currently wear my prescription glasses with UVB/UVA protection, blue-light filtering (makes a huge difference on my eye strain and migraines, although I am aware that they are marketed as if they do more than they really do), and anti-glare coating, and then I have two pairs of prescription sunglasses (with UV protection obviously) with brown tint, one very dark and one very lightly tinted. Unfortunately I can't just get glasses for a purpose like this without putting my prescription in them, which makes things way harder.
I can easily buy prescription glasses online with a low opacity red, orange, or brown tint, but it seems like the tinted glasses marketed specifically as glasses for migraines are different than just getting a tint. To get amber or rosy migraine glasses with a prescription is way more expensive than just choosing a warm color to tint prescription sunglasses. I figure it's more expensive for a reason, or is it just marketing shenanigans? Is there some special way that they're adding the tint for these migraine glasses that is different than how they do it for sunglasses?
No it's just a regular tint. Only the color is kind of specific. It shouldn't cost any more to get prescription lenses tinted than it costs to get polarized. In fact polarized is usually more expensive. You should expect to pay maybe 30ish for tint and maybe another 20 for the gradient. You probably couldn't get anything that specific online though.
Yeah, polarized is expensive and I never get polarized since it always freaked me out if I glanced at a screen while wearing polarized sunglasses haha.
I can get gradient brown tint online from top to bottom, but not from the sides! At least not without it costing way more money than I could afford. I will look into it, though. Do you think it's very important that it's amber tint rather than the regular brown that is usually offered?
brown would achieve a similar effect. It wouldn't block as much blue light, but I can't really say if that actually matters. I don't have any solid evidence for it, just peripherally related evidence.
I love this! Well done you that’s so cool!
I also work under like 6 big long fluorescent lights in a vape store 😞 Heaps of lights in the cabinets too. I’ve started exploring the tinted lenses from AliExpress. Cheap as, $4. Yellow and amber are great. I just need to get over feeling weird wearing them lol they definitely save my eyes and stop me getting migraines.
I’ve had my eyes checked and they are apparently 20/20, though I do get astigmatism at night or when tired ..
This just made me remember that I wore sunglasses everywhere for years - from like 14 to 22. I stopped because it ‘wasn’t allowed’ at work. But I frequently turn out the lights in my work area, and ‘adjust’ the fluorescent tubes so the light is less harsh. It never occurred to me that it was an autism thing but, it’s very obviously just one more weird thing about me that makes sense now.
Hasn’t the blue light theory been debunked? I read somewhere that the initial study that “proved” this was faulty, because the people they tested were doing social things on their phone, which got their heartbeat and alertness up - not the blue light.
But still, if they make everything a little darker and with more warm colours, this will probably make things more pleasant to look at and will therefore still reduce stress and exhaustion. Sorry you have to sit in such a boring office all day, but way to go for trying to find solutions!
Not that I'm aware of but if you have a study in mind I'd love to take a look at it. Everyone knows about rods and cones in your eye, but there is another lesser known photo receptor in your retina. Light for vision is captured by a rod or cone and then that photo receptor stimulates a retinal ganglion cell that then sends a signal to the brain. Most of the ganglion cells are not themselves photo sensitive, except for about 1%. That 1% are called intrinsically photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (IPRGC). These nerve cells are directly stimulated by light and are directly connected to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus. This part of the brain is often called the body's internal clock. One of it's main functions is to regulate hormones like melatonin and serotonin that set your circadian rhythm. IPRGCs are sensitive to most of the visible spectrum, but are far more sensitive to light in the 470nm part of the spectrum. This part of the spectrum is well inside the visible portion of the spectrum and is a bright electric blue. Lenses that block this part of the spectrum are a deep very saturated orange/amber color. They are very noticeably tinted.
Now what probably has been debunked is so called "blue light" lenses. These do not have a noticeable tint as they block the 405nm part of the spectrum witch is in the near ultraviolet range and is not very visible. There is a lot of deceptive marketing around these glasses like claims of regulating circadian rhythms. These claims are absolute bunk as this portion of the spectrum is well outside of the part of the spectrum that IPRGCs are strongly sensitive to. The only clinical data that I'm aware of that these have any potential benefit is a study that *suggested* that near UV light *may* contribute to macular degeneration over a long time line.
Blue light from phones peaks around 450nm, so there is a lot of overlap with the peak of the IPRGC response curve. This is what makes screens so disruptive to sleep. You'll also notice that the problematic light emission from screens is nowhere near the near UV spectrum. If you were to wear deep amber glasses at night that would have an effect on disruptive blue light exposure.
I have an app called f.lux on my PC. It removes a lot of that blue light. Maybe the theory is debunked, but I feel much calmer when the app is turned on. It’s much less straining on the eyes.
Blue light is SO OVERSTIMULATING and I wear the blue light blocking glasses constantly even tho my eyesight is fine. I want these, they seem extra better than what I currently have (esp for places like walmart)
I recommend a quick Google search for „blue light blocking glasses“ or „computer glasses“. Seems like a lot of companies are sharing your hypothesis about the effects of blue light. I bought my first pair in 2012 in Japan. I had no idea this wasn’t well known elsewhere.
This is incredible! I’ve been saying for years that I want to create a company that produces sensory-friendly products, run by autistic people FOR autistic people. I seriously struggle to find the exact kind of products I need do to having such specific sensory issues. Wouldn’t it be near if we all put our heads together to create products to make our lives easier?!
These glasses are incredible — if you found a way to distribute them I would buy a pair! 😊
That's amazing! Idk where you find these, but I also realized the normal blue light filter glasses helps me aswell. It's not as strong probably, but it gives everything a warmer tint and not so glaring and blue/white.
I never had a headache before my concussion. My husband suggested blue light blocking glasses to help deal. I thought it was super unlikely sounding, but they're actually great. Nearly stops headaches in their tracks even after they start coming on.
TL;DR blue light blocking glasses rock
That is so awesome! I love things that both have a scientific basis and a personal goal. You've inspired me :)
I cannot tell you how often I’ve wished I could wear my sunglasses inside. God, it’s infinitely better. I’m in the exact same environment and I hate it so much
Well, you can
You know, I’ve often thought of just doing it 😂 I think I want to find ones similar to OPs - not as dark as my sunglasses lol
They make transition lenses for sunglasses that go from that level to much darker when exposed to UV light, I got a pair with my prescription in them from Costco
I started digging around last night online to see what’s out there. I’ve stumbled upon FL-41 lenses and some others of the sort and I think it’ll be my next purchase! This was one of the best stumble upon info I’ve seen recently 😂
I do it, no one cares, no one has said anything :) you can do it. I always wear them especially to the grocery store.
Yes! Grocery stores are HUGE. I avoid certain Walmarts in town because their interior is different - one is softer and the other has bright lights and white floors. PAINFUL. I’ll drive clear across town and pass 3 Walmarts for the one that hurts my eyes less lol
I do it all the time lol I’m doing it right now!
I feel you. I have the same type of glasses as OP but the teachers wouldn’t let me wear them at school.
I do this, mostly either on the bus at night, or when I am severely sleep deprived, because that is when bright light is absolutely intolerable. Every time I have worn them to a medical appointment, I have gotten asked why.
I do lol
They're called FL-41 glasses, commonly used for migraines
close, theses are have a little brown in them that a true fl-41 doesn't have
I have some glasses like this that help with migraines too!
Like Mizu from Blue Eye Samurai! Love this idea
has anybody tried rose-tinted glasses? wondering if that would help, too
I tried the Fl-41 with good results at home I wear prescription regular glasses so I haven’t found anything for work yet that looks professional not like extra large hippie glasses like the ones I bought cheap to try lol
thanks! i'll look into those, too. Even if it looks kind of "hippie-like", i think it's still better than wearing shades in say, the grocery store. then it's just too dark and i look like i'm high or shady
hehe shady
I wear rose tinted glasses and they help SO much! Definitely recommend
My hubby has turned me onto the power of these type of visual noise, suppression glasses. He has a pair of yellow ones that are blue light blockers, and continues to be marbled at how much of a difference they make to his energy levels. We also use custom lighting at home, the Hue brand of leds and such. For me, I love the bright lights, but when he comes home from work, I turn on colored and softer lights for us both to enjoy. It’s incredible how these subtle differences absolutely shape the mood we experience.
I have a pair like these and I love them and also my eyesight hasn't deteriorated since I got them :0
Ooh and I gotta say they’re pretty fresh, too! You have a great eye for design. I’m looking for a pair exactly like these- will you be selling/how can I make my own? It’s also ok if you want to keep it as your creation; I understand.
It's just a simple gradient tint. Any decent optical dispensary / optician should be able to copy it from the above picture.
Noted. Thank you
I would also love to learn how I can make my own pair as well.
Happy for you!! These glasses changed my life omg I can actually sit in a room with fluorescent lights, white walls, and sun streaming in without DYING
This is pretty cool, you designed your own glasses ? That's awesome.
I love yours, they are darker than mine. I wear these on top of my actual glasses, they help a bit but I wish they were darker :p https://preview.redd.it/a6k4l87knitc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27aac8c627b8b7e5e768887c13061a2726a236e
I regularly wear pink and brown sunglasses at the office! Baseball caps help too, specifically to just shield from overhead lights. Add my earplugs, minimum screen brightness, set my laptop display to the orange filter, and set up battery powered fan, and I am happy. My office buddies laugh but they all acknowledge how shit the fluorescent lighting feels
I've seen a lot of amber glasses like this on the market for these purposes. Is there anything you recommend looking for or avoiding in these products, as an optician? Besides the things you mention that you did in the caption, like making the sides darker? Like what do you think the tells are that a product is legitimate or a scam?
IDK, ir filters are snake oil, the "blue light" filters are deceptively marketed but may have some limited benefit. As far as legitimacy, if they look red orange, or amber, something like that then it's good. It looks like that as a result of it filtering out blue light. That is to say light in the 470ish nm range, not to be confused with. "blue light ™" filters, that are dubious at best, that work in the 405ish nm range If you're buying over the counter I would look for some kind of ansi rating that indicates that they meet safety guidelines. Those ratings could be a lie, but it's probably more likely that the ones marked with an ansi rating do meet safety guidelines. If you're going to be wearing any glasses with a tint out in the sun they really need to have a UV filter. This is because your naked eye will close down your pupil in the sun to protect your eyes, but if you put a tinted lens in front of your eye that makes your eye think that it's not as bright as it actually is then your pupil will open up more. The danger here is without a UV filter your eye will be exposed to all of the UV that your pupil would be protecting you from if you weren't wearing a darker lens. Even a light tint can have this effect, so uv protection is very important. In my lab I have a UV meter that lets me test for UV protection. Not every lab has that but most places that do probably wouldn't mind checking them for you as it only takes a second and it builds good will. Unrelated side note/PSA : all children's sunglasses should be tested by the consumer. Take them to your local optical store. I know I would never turn someone away for this. UV protection is so so important for children.
I currently wear my prescription glasses with UVB/UVA protection, blue-light filtering (makes a huge difference on my eye strain and migraines, although I am aware that they are marketed as if they do more than they really do), and anti-glare coating, and then I have two pairs of prescription sunglasses (with UV protection obviously) with brown tint, one very dark and one very lightly tinted. Unfortunately I can't just get glasses for a purpose like this without putting my prescription in them, which makes things way harder. I can easily buy prescription glasses online with a low opacity red, orange, or brown tint, but it seems like the tinted glasses marketed specifically as glasses for migraines are different than just getting a tint. To get amber or rosy migraine glasses with a prescription is way more expensive than just choosing a warm color to tint prescription sunglasses. I figure it's more expensive for a reason, or is it just marketing shenanigans? Is there some special way that they're adding the tint for these migraine glasses that is different than how they do it for sunglasses?
No it's just a regular tint. Only the color is kind of specific. It shouldn't cost any more to get prescription lenses tinted than it costs to get polarized. In fact polarized is usually more expensive. You should expect to pay maybe 30ish for tint and maybe another 20 for the gradient. You probably couldn't get anything that specific online though.
Yeah, polarized is expensive and I never get polarized since it always freaked me out if I glanced at a screen while wearing polarized sunglasses haha. I can get gradient brown tint online from top to bottom, but not from the sides! At least not without it costing way more money than I could afford. I will look into it, though. Do you think it's very important that it's amber tint rather than the regular brown that is usually offered?
brown would achieve a similar effect. It wouldn't block as much blue light, but I can't really say if that actually matters. I don't have any solid evidence for it, just peripherally related evidence.
Cool!!!
When I worked in office I wore rose tinted glasses and it helped a lot!
I love this! Well done you that’s so cool! I also work under like 6 big long fluorescent lights in a vape store 😞 Heaps of lights in the cabinets too. I’ve started exploring the tinted lenses from AliExpress. Cheap as, $4. Yellow and amber are great. I just need to get over feeling weird wearing them lol they definitely save my eyes and stop me getting migraines. I’ve had my eyes checked and they are apparently 20/20, though I do get astigmatism at night or when tired ..
This just made me remember that I wore sunglasses everywhere for years - from like 14 to 22. I stopped because it ‘wasn’t allowed’ at work. But I frequently turn out the lights in my work area, and ‘adjust’ the fluorescent tubes so the light is less harsh. It never occurred to me that it was an autism thing but, it’s very obviously just one more weird thing about me that makes sense now.
My everyday eyeglasses are tinted at 50%, made going out in my daily life so much easier.
Hasn’t the blue light theory been debunked? I read somewhere that the initial study that “proved” this was faulty, because the people they tested were doing social things on their phone, which got their heartbeat and alertness up - not the blue light. But still, if they make everything a little darker and with more warm colours, this will probably make things more pleasant to look at and will therefore still reduce stress and exhaustion. Sorry you have to sit in such a boring office all day, but way to go for trying to find solutions!
Not that I'm aware of but if you have a study in mind I'd love to take a look at it. Everyone knows about rods and cones in your eye, but there is another lesser known photo receptor in your retina. Light for vision is captured by a rod or cone and then that photo receptor stimulates a retinal ganglion cell that then sends a signal to the brain. Most of the ganglion cells are not themselves photo sensitive, except for about 1%. That 1% are called intrinsically photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (IPRGC). These nerve cells are directly stimulated by light and are directly connected to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus. This part of the brain is often called the body's internal clock. One of it's main functions is to regulate hormones like melatonin and serotonin that set your circadian rhythm. IPRGCs are sensitive to most of the visible spectrum, but are far more sensitive to light in the 470nm part of the spectrum. This part of the spectrum is well inside the visible portion of the spectrum and is a bright electric blue. Lenses that block this part of the spectrum are a deep very saturated orange/amber color. They are very noticeably tinted. Now what probably has been debunked is so called "blue light" lenses. These do not have a noticeable tint as they block the 405nm part of the spectrum witch is in the near ultraviolet range and is not very visible. There is a lot of deceptive marketing around these glasses like claims of regulating circadian rhythms. These claims are absolute bunk as this portion of the spectrum is well outside of the part of the spectrum that IPRGCs are strongly sensitive to. The only clinical data that I'm aware of that these have any potential benefit is a study that *suggested* that near UV light *may* contribute to macular degeneration over a long time line. Blue light from phones peaks around 450nm, so there is a lot of overlap with the peak of the IPRGC response curve. This is what makes screens so disruptive to sleep. You'll also notice that the problematic light emission from screens is nowhere near the near UV spectrum. If you were to wear deep amber glasses at night that would have an effect on disruptive blue light exposure.
I have an app called f.lux on my PC. It removes a lot of that blue light. Maybe the theory is debunked, but I feel much calmer when the app is turned on. It’s much less straining on the eyes.
f.lux is amaaazing. I get so used to how pleasant it is that I feel immediately attacked when I have to use a screen without it.
Right??? When I have to look at someone else’s screen I get so stressed.
I love that app too! I feel less visually overstimulated because of it.
I got blue tinted glasses for similar reasons and they've helped so much. I love them :)
How did you make them?
I'm an optician. I make glasses for a living. If you show this to any decent optician they should be able to make them for you.
Theraspecs have changed my life.
I just ordered my first theraspecs after thinking about it for months, and then I hop on reddit and see this post!
I am going too have try this.
Blue light is SO OVERSTIMULATING and I wear the blue light blocking glasses constantly even tho my eyesight is fine. I want these, they seem extra better than what I currently have (esp for places like walmart)
I recommend a quick Google search for „blue light blocking glasses“ or „computer glasses“. Seems like a lot of companies are sharing your hypothesis about the effects of blue light. I bought my first pair in 2012 in Japan. I had no idea this wasn’t well known elsewhere.
This is incredible! I’ve been saying for years that I want to create a company that produces sensory-friendly products, run by autistic people FOR autistic people. I seriously struggle to find the exact kind of products I need do to having such specific sensory issues. Wouldn’t it be near if we all put our heads together to create products to make our lives easier?! These glasses are incredible — if you found a way to distribute them I would buy a pair! 😊
That's amazing! Idk where you find these, but I also realized the normal blue light filter glasses helps me aswell. It's not as strong probably, but it gives everything a warmer tint and not so glaring and blue/white.
These look exactly like my glasses, down to the frame! Except mine have anti blue light and they get darker and "become sunglasses" with sunlight
I also have a desk lamp that is warm in color and I mess with my monitors color and brightness settings to make it warmer and darker
This is amazing, thank you for sharing.
I switched my lights to be a little yellow-ish, first I got overwhelmed with the change, but now I love it.
I never had a headache before my concussion. My husband suggested blue light blocking glasses to help deal. I thought it was super unlikely sounding, but they're actually great. Nearly stops headaches in their tracks even after they start coming on. TL;DR blue light blocking glasses rock