Hey all, thought this may be of interest. Q, is someone waging war against us via common LED screens found in our smartphones, laptops and computer screens? How do I bold specific sections of text?
There is already plenty of scientific evidence that LED light has real physiological effect on people. Apparently LED screens can affect us far more than i originally suspected. Especially those who are on the autism spectrum, ie 99% of anons on the chans.
This 2011 (unpeer-reviewed?) article, Exploring flicker in Solid‐State Lighting: What you might find, and how to deal with it discusses it further, showing the different sorts of flickering that occurs from different types of light sources, plus a brief summary (with references) of some of the health effects flickering can cause, including this excerpted list:
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Headaches and eyestrain
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Neurological problems including photosensitive epilepsy
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Reductions in visual performance
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Distraction
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Disruptive behaviors in individuals with autism
>- Disruptive behaviors in individuals with autism
>- Disruptive behaviors in individuals with autism
This paper introduces power electronic designers for LED lighting to health concerns relating to flicker, demonstrates that existing technologies in LED lighting sometimes provide flicker at frequencies that may induce biological human response, and discusses a few methods to consider when trying to mitigate unintentional biological effects of LED lighting.
The physiological pathway is that all humans are sensitive to flickering light - the range of sensitivity in both frequency and intensity varies by individual. At normal mains frequencies (50 or 60Hz) the vast majority of the population is insensitive but some people are.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27446/are-people-physically-sensitive-to-light-from-leds-over-other-sources
A huge mega thread regarding this topic
https://ledstrain.org/d/81-non-pwm-sufferer-narrowed-down-to-blue-light-sensitivity-or-overuse