Current Insights into Optimal Lighting for Promoting Sleep and Circadian Health: Brighter Days and the Importance of Sunlight in the Built Environment

Abstract

Fabian-Xosé Fernandez Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USACorrespondence: Fabian-Xosé FernandezDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az, USAEmail [email protected]: This perspective considers the possibility that daytime’s intrusion into night made possible by electric lighting may not be as pernicious to sleep and circadian health as the encroachment of nighttime into day wrought by 20th century architectural practices that have left many people estranged from sunlight.Keywords: human-centric lighting, sleep, circadian entrainment, photohistory, sunlight, daylight

Keywords

• human-centric lighting
• sleep
• circadian entrainment
• photohistory
• sunlight
• daylight