Interesting to hear your take on the "blue light insomnia" issue as someone that works directly with color reproduction in graphics programming.
I too suspect the recent alarm about health issues with "blue light" to be an attempt to sell snake oil and cash in on a large market. There have been studies that show correlation of migraines and insomnia with ARTIFICIAL light, but this was mainly the long fluorescent gas bulbs and had to do with strobe frequency more than color frequency.
I think it might also serve to play down (or avoid confronting) the real psychological affects of WHAT people are viewing, namely our culture's obsession with social media, and the rather profound impact it has had on our people's collective mental health. In my experience, people in general are more overly sensitive, self-isolated, easily irritated, and prone to be swayed by emotional arguments and nonsensical analogies than just a decade ago.
If PC (politically correct) BS was over the top in the 90's, it has blown the capstone in 2012+.
People can say what they will and I am all for the amazing benefits of the internet age (particularly things like Wikipedia), but there is something about the fixation with constant attention on Twitter and Facebook (even when it is completely contrived), the pressure to monetize EVERYTHING, and the hyper-importance given to these media to the point of drama that can ruin friendships (with more of those relationships being largely contrivances themselves, driven by expectations of said media), all adding up to a culture that is in a constant state of ultimately self-defeating primal hyper-competition and in general
severely prone to manipulation, IMHO.
There is nothing wrong with the human desire for recognition, to be a part of a society and be recognized for our contributions. In fact it is one of our primary human NEEDS as defined by popular science and sociology. However, this hyper-exposed social media culture is IMHO cheapening the human experience by putting people under pressure to present themselves for scrutiny and judgement, disproportional to the investment in people having time to actually produce meaningful material.
Human beings were not meant to be CONSTANTLY social animals. The process of CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS requires periods of isolation and introspection which are severely diminished in this constant in-your-face culture of everything on obsessive stalker media all the time. It severs you from the natural human experience of INTIMACY and IMAGINATION.
Which may well be an intended side-effect. People that have no time to think tend to let others do their thinking for them...
Something I do find helpful as far as the whole lighting spectrum issue is concerned is to have generally low ambient light, but with warm point lighting in the form of things that "glow." For a simple example, I have a salt rock lamp that is basically a large (football size) piece of Himalayan salt, pinkish-orange in color, with a small bulb in the center passed up through a hole drilled in the base, sitting on a wooden stand that prevents light leakage from the bottom.
This light is enough to read by and gives the sense of a warm but not overly intense camp fire. I find it quite relaxing.
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