Night Mode: phones, websites, (my blog)

When I was first introduced to the concept of Night Mode a few years ago, my phone had an experimental? Android system feature: a Night Mode toggle in the top toggle bar which would basically invert the values of everything on the screen, with some tweaking. It didn't do a pure inversion like you'd get from Photoshop, but tried to make things more legible and closer to their originals, so a white page background would turn to black, but dark reds like in the Dreamwidth logo became light reds.

This was really useful for reading at night, and when I switched to a OnePlus and found it it doesn't have that toggle, and I couldn't find one to download that would do anything similar, I was extremely disappointed. Ebook readers do it, and I've selected a dark site skin on AO3 to accomodate mostly visiting it at night even if it is just to download things (and the dark skin doesn't bother me on the desktop or during the day). ( Read more... )

ssris, sleep cycles, & (lucidish) dreams

A lot of SSRIs affect sleep and dreams. The one I'm taking now is known for increasing waking time and time in sleep stage 1, suppressing REM (? though this was a sleep laboratory and they only tested for a short period, whereas in RL you tend to get used to a new dose after 6 weeks or so), and sometimes producing that involuntary leg movement thing.

When I was easing up to the current dose, I had trouble falling asleep and was annoyed by waking up frequently at the slightest disturbance, which accords with studies. I no longer am aware of waking up frequently, but since then I have frequently had

• lucid dreams


• dreams where I can control things in the dream to some extent, not always remembering that I'm dreaming but frequently
  
  • a lot of the time I'm repeatedly struggling to remember that I'm dreaming, and repeatedly remembering but forgetting in between and consequently losing some of my ability to influence the dream
  
  
  • it's never effortless to control the dream, though. There's a lot of trying different things and seeing if they work.
  
  
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