Hey Lauren,

Just checked out your Instagram and I loooove Mary Poppins. I’ve been waiting for the new one to come out since like pre-production and so excited it’s coming out next week! I like your work and will check out more stuff after this reply 🙂 (I’m not on Instagram so I’m sorry about not adding you another follower ;))

Well so coming back to the topic, I even found a weird study, when googling back then, on using brighter lightbulbs and equipping the whole flat with them (found back the link! https://arbital.com/p/lumenators/), but I just couldn’t be bothered to do all that fuss hah. But anyway my light therapy lamp with extended duration works fine for me so no need for that either anyway. And yes of course you can be on your computer and keep the lamp on aside your monitor, that’s the only way I do it! My psychiatrist told me that it’s even a better idea to work on the laptop or read something whilst the light therapy because that means you’re looking down (unless your monitor is huge of course), which means the light comes from above and hits the part in your eyes where the sunlight hits (I’m no doctor and can’t remember all the body part names!). That’s why the height of the lamp is also important: higher or at least the eye height. And also you should keep it in a quite close distance.

Maybe avoid using it late afternoon or night because it’s supposed to disturb your sleep? But I’ve never tried it myself so I don’t know! That’s just what they say. Did you sleep alright after using it at night time?

Yeah I’ve noticed Australia has quite a lot of standup comedy festivals (like the one in Melbourne?). I watch loads on YouTube! :p Hope you’ll go there next year then! 🙂