Individual Stories

LightAware receives stories from people all over the world who are shut out of their lives by new forms of lighting – people who can’t get to work without blinding headaches, or visit a library without a severe skin rash. We hear from people having to leave their jobs, their studies and even their homes. Each person adversely affected by new lighting has to go through the same process of trying to understand what is happening to them and to communicate that to others. It is a difficult and often isolating process. There is very little guidance or understanding, from the general public or from policy-makers or health professionals.

Many find their symptoms dismissed as ‘anecdotal’ and are told there is no evidence for the health problems they are experiencing. LightAware feels that technology is progressing faster than medical science is addressing the issue, and questions whether the testing of new products is sufficiently thorough.

LightAware believes we need much more research, and much more dialogue and joining the dots between different fields of medicine and technology. In the meantime, we are gathering the ‘anecdotes’ individual stories of personal experience of how lives and health are affected by new forms of light.