I tend to get hit pretty hard with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and I have read a lot of articles the past few years on light therapy so I dropped $300 on one of the new LED high intensity no heat lights. You sit with it about 12 to 24 inches from your eyes for about 60 minutes per day while you read, work out, watch TV, or work on the computer and it helps balance your internal clock. So far, so good!

I started using it 3 weeks ago. I find I have doubled my deep sleep from 1 hour per night to 2 and my concentration time has not fallen as it usually does in the fall. However, I have started to dream. Or at least remember my dreams.

Last night I dreamed that Gallagher had married Carrot Top and CT was pumping out creepy little demons ala The Brood except the little freaks had flaming red hair and stabbed people in the ass with pencils before bashing in their heads with oversized wooden mallets. I was on the phone with dubya as he was shit faced and had called me for advice when the blond lady from the American edition of The Antiques Roadshow walked in, sat on my lap and took the phone from me and hung it up. The end.

So all in all the light therapy seems a success except if this is what dreaming is like I am not impressed.

arse_hat, as a data point, when I went from being a constant, super-committed pot smoker to basically never smoking dope at all, I started remembering my dreams and they got really strange. This evened out over a while, changes in brain chemistry and all that...