Category: accessible Devices
Who uses lights everywhare they go. I don't use them my self except for maybe a lamp in the living room. But When I have guests over, I most certainly use them. Ok the floor is opened.
I never turn on lights unless there's a sighted person with me or who needs it, and when I'm in the restroom. Otherwise, I don't bother with them personally.
I got to admit I never touch the light switch. Just don't think about it.
If a light is turned on, a sighted person who needs it turns it on.
If a light is turned off, that same sighted person probably turns it off next time they visit. <lol>
I never think about lights.
Bob
lol, well, I used to hear stories from friends who know some of my neighbors. that they thought I was never home. because it was allways so dark over at my house. Now, boo boo uses the lights and I am usually right behind her to turn them off. Just think how much energy we could save if we could teach sightlings to do everything in the dark.
I never use lights unless someone sighted is over, and even then I sometimes get asked "uhm can you turn on a light?" I have no vision whatsoever, or any memory of it, so light to me is just another word, and something I don't really think about.
On the flipside I've had a couple times when someone sighted was over and just turned on the light, and I didn't notice for a day or 2 until I happened to touch the switch and realize it was in the on position.
See I use to see a little bit out of one eye and then I lost my vision. But your right, we could save electricity.
I have a frend who thinks because we live in a sighted world, we should use lights and I think that is stupid but that's just me.
i don't use the lights, but my brother always says, turn the light on. It usually tells someone another oerson's in the room. If you're by yourself, I could see why it's pointless, but yes, do turn the lights on if a sighted person just happens to be visiting you.
No lights for me. No need to run up my electric bill.
I have a little bit of vision so I mostly use the lights at night and i turn them off when I'm not using them.
I live at home, and we use lights. It's no big deal to me whether the lights are on or not.When I move out, no lights, what so ever. Just a lot of money going down the drain.
Mostly, I leave them off, but ooccasionally, I put a light on for a short while, so my place won't appear to be vacant. I like lamps, I have one with a stained glass shade, and sometimes like to turn them on, because I like the way I imagine it makes the room look.--I used to have some sight, so remember...
But by no means do I do this every day! I too forget to turn off a light, especially if I didn't turn it on, and it's very annoying to find it still on, days later!
When I first lost the last of my sight at 14, my dad used to get upset that I was in my room in the dark. It made me sad that it should distress him so much.
I don't use lights unless there are sighted people around, but I try to be sensitive to the fact that they like them. Like if I know I'm having sighted guests over, I'll turn on lights before they get here, and turn them off when the sighted people leave. There are times I forget to do this, and get asked if I can turn on a light, or that I've left lights on for quite awhile cuz I forget to turn them back off.
I learned a valuable lesson about lights while living in my dorm in college. Often times, I'd be in my room with my door closed, doing homework, whatever. But because I didn't turn on a light, sighted friends just assumed I wasn't there, and I wouldn't get asked to go along when friends went out places. So I learned to keep my lights on when I was in my room, because then I was likely to be asked, even if my door was closed at the time.
We don't need lights, but I guess it goes back to the fact that we live in a sighted world, and most people do need them.
I have light perception, so I definitely use them.
I really don't see why someone who can't see would want lights. It takes some off the electric bill.
Well they kind of need them to see.
I have some vision so I turn on the lights at night even if I'm not using them.
I can see, I can see better with the light on, but I prefer to be in the dark, just because it is more comfortable, but that's just me. my dad gets annoyed when he used to walk into my room and see that I didn't have the lights on and I told him that, I can't see that well so why use them, he said that everyone else is sighted and they need them. so, I use them when I have to but I prefer not to.
Plus, when you're living on your own, wouldn't turning on lights at night let people outside be aware that someone does indeed live in your house, and you're less likely to get robbed at gunpoint or something horrific like that?
well I guess since I always could see light, i still have to have at least one light on well, until i go to bed of course, and if its light outside, of course then i dont, but if it came to doing everything in the dark I could, i think thats eventually whats going to happen anyway because now I have to wear glasses to filter most of the sun becaused of the damn glare(but the supposed good independant living program i was a for a while, had everyone do things with shades..yes, even swim, that place is a whole other soapbox though that i don't want to start here, it'd be for the rant board lol
I can see light and dark--I just have light perception--and I tend to turn lights on in main rooms, the bathroom, etc. But in my room, I don't use a lam and my light switch doesn't work haha.
I have light perception too, and I only turn on the light in the bathroom. My dad yells at me too when I don't turn the lights on in my room. I don't know why it's such a big deal really.
I have vision, so I do turn on the lights when I remember to. Their r times when I'll be in my room, and when I walk in its light out, I'll sit at my computer, and when I look up again, its completely dark out, and I have completely forgotten to turn them on.
I use lights if I have to look at something in print and it's too dim in the room or dark to read it. I'll also use lights in the restroom or to get around unfamiliar places, but otherwise I don't like them. I'm photophobic in one eye, especially when the eye doctors shine the bright lights on me, plus bright lights on surfaces cause reflection and glare that can be really annoying at times. I just got this new laptop and just about every part of hte surface has a glossy, glare-inducing finish on it, grmbl! Thus, if no one's in the room, I'll dim down the lights but not have them off completely. I like dimmer switch options.
Everyone raised good points. While we may save on electric bills by eliminating lights, I think we give the impression of nobody being home, and/or not wanting to be disturbed. Personally, I turn lights on in the evening out of consideration for my wife in adition to the safety issues that were raised. Sometimes, a lamp helps me with my orientation. I have one eye that was butchered up in surgery, and I have like a two degree field of vision. I have to look for a light source, but there are those occasional times when I need a light source to help me orient myself if I'm say in the center of a large room, and nothing is in reach of my cane or just reaching out.
Lou
I don't mind it either way. I don't give it much thought. Since I am so concentrated in doing what needs to be done, I don't think about the light. So, I rush in to places ready to complete something and don't think about the light, thus forgetting about it and not turning it on. I don't dislike or find it unnecessary, it just doesn't darn matter. If it really offend someone that much, I'll just turn it on. I mean, whatever, I am okay with either.
I have a bit of light perception though, so I know what light is.