It’s no accident that the soul-sucking insomniac cubicle life Edward Norton endured in Fight Club was cast in pale blue fluorescent light.
Read the Amazon reviews for blue blockers. That lighting was the simple truth.
Using Unity, I continually refined my biorhythm. The stronger I became, the longer I worked beneath fluorescent lights at home and work. No matter what I did, their tide inexorably pulled me under – flattening my Circadian amplitude, shading each day with a subtle edge of suffering and diminishment, forcing the next error in my regimen adherence.
I identified this pattern in my data, observing a correlation between late night classes under bright office fluorescents, and fatigue spike the next day. So I ordered blue blockers on Amazon, rush shipping. And waited.
Yesterday they came. I put them on mid-evening class. As blue turned to gold, wave of relief flooded me. The edge was gone.
As the evening progressed, I started to become sleepy during the class. After class, I lost count of my yawns.
As I smoked outdoors in the artificially natural red sunset glow, I socialized comfortably on the phone, calling friends and allies. Discussing ideas and plans easily. The comfort was a little bit like being drunk, but without the stupidity.
Then I slept, earlier than I did the night before, and easily. The last conversation naturally dropped off into unconsciousness.
I awoke the next day refreshed. Healing was apparent in my gut and skin. I easily did my morning regimen chores, easily and brilliantly worked at the office. At lunchtime, as I passed through the bright daylight, it seemed a pall had been lifted. The crawling wrongness of day mixed with night had relaxed. I casually took stairs two at a time. For the first time in 6 months, I had found my Sabbath rest.
“Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”" Mark 2:27
“Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.” Exodus 35:3
As ever, man discovers belatedly that God was right.
Now, of both IBS and fatigue, I am free .