Light Deprivation

About light deprivation and The Light Boxes:

If you hate and dread the short, dark days of winter--if winter's annual gloom saps you of your usual vitality--if you feel light deprived--our products can probably help. They are also useful for helping travelers to adapt quickly to different time zones and for adjusting shift-workers' internal schedules to their demanding work schedules.

The life on our planet is dependent on the sun. Sunlight is our natural cue for wakefulness and sleepiness. Unfortunately, our modern lives don't always allow us to live in perfect harmony with the rising and setting of the sun.

Most of us spend almost all of our time indoors. Our careers and other responsibilities often require us to wake before dawn, stay awake long after night has fallen, and spend much of the intervening time in a constant state of stress. When we do get to relax, it is often in the evenings or only on weekends. The result of all of this is that we spend very little of our time outside, enjoying fresh air and sunny weather.

Light deprivation can occur at any time of year, but it is most common during the winter. With fewer hours of daylight, many people go to work in darkness and return home in darkness, rarely ever being exposed to natural daylight.

Some people can tolerate this lifestyle with ease. However, many people find that life lived under artificial lighting is far from ideal. The typical light level in an office setting is between 250 and 1,000 lux. By comparison, the light that reaches your eyes when you look up at the sky might be several tens of thousands lux. (Never stare directly at the sun!)

Visionweaver sells the highest quality light boxes on the market, designed to increase the amount of light in your life. Our light boxes are used by thousands of individuals and in hundreds of clinical settings worldwide, including the National Institutes of Health.

We offer a seven-year warranty on our light boxes. That's the longest warranty in the industry, from the company that started the industry. ( New!! Buy a Light Box now and you can make the industry's longest warranty even longer! The warranty will be extended to TEN years if you replace the bulbs at least every three years!)

We are committed to helping people improve their lighting environment. That's why we're here. Helping people is our goal. We believe we can best achieve that goal by providing superior products at a fair price and by delivering unrivalled customer service.

Unlike many of our competitors, we sell a broad range of products, from bright light delivery systems to dawn simulation products to general household and office lighting.