It has been mentioned in lecture that Florescent light is unpleasant because it does not have an identifiable single source. The classrooms in Humanities Hall are all lit by florescent light have convinced me that florescent light is quite unpleasant. What was interesting was how much more bearable that light is at lower intensity. During a lecture in Humanities Hall last week one of my professors dimmed the lights to about half power. The room instantly became much more pleasant but why? the ambiguous source of light remains constant only the intensity has increased shouldn't this level of light be more obtrusive than pleasant?
The intensity dimmed at least removes some of the garishness of the light - it is probably more of a relative thing - had you walked into in its dimmer light, you may have been just as bothered - regardless the dimmer light was easier on the eyes
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