Florent Becart
clarebeeI have a theory that dappled light is a kind of nervous-system-calmer - like white noise for the body.
blinkenjimI think so too! You know what I find beautiful and calming? Leaves lit by sunlight from the other side. You know, like you're sitting beneath a shady tree on a sunny day, and you look up and see all this sunlight filtered through chlorophyl? I love how it makes the leaves seem to glow.
@blinkenjim Totally - a special kind of light, heart-lifting stuff.
HeliographBeautiful. Thanks!
Asiny@clarebee I agree. It should be a part of every therapist's tool kit!
NotMaddie!@clarebee I can totally relate! The opposite: when you’re driving and dappled light is strobe like. That makes me really stressed.
@madrobin Oh that's true. Dappled light at a walking pace only :)
Myndex 🔵Driving through that kind of dappled light is a known seizure risk for people that are prone to photic seizures... (akin to flashing lights).
But a slow walk, it's high stim (intensity) but slow stim (temporally).... hmm
Now this has me wondering if there's some kind of #photicEntrainment ....
Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Inco@clarebee one of my faves, always felt relaxed walking here
@bangskij Lovely - yes, something just releases. That silvery bark too - magic.
smartwatermelon 
Paul 🏳️🌈@clarebee had a very similar thought when I was jogging under an ancient oak tree earlier. Such a calming effect.
Shawn King@clarebee @donmelton OMG I couldn’t agree more! It’s absolutely delightful.
Marty 🇨🇦@clarebee I believe your theory is sound! And lovely photo!
stoicmike@clarebee Perhaps because the leaves on the trees are always moving, making a continuous light show?
PhilFor a second there Mike I thought you were going to say
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
You know I'm tryin' to please to the calling
Of your heartstrings that play soft and low
Betsybeautiful, evocative photo. I agree with you 100% about dappled light.
I can never hear or see the word "dapple/d" without hearing these lines --
"I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon"
Kevin Leecaster@clarebee
If you get a chance to see a partial eclipse make sure to look at the shadows through leaves of a tree.
If you get a chance to see a partial eclipse make sure to look at the shadows through leaves of a tree.
Ian Robinson@GreenFire @clarebee @AwesomeAstronomy I wrote a song about that. https://canicula.com/wp/eclipse-lyric/
Brian May liked it. Sent me an email and everything 🥳
@GreenFire @clarebee @AwesomeAstronomy The guitarist from Queen. He also has a PhD in Astronomy. On a study of the radial velocities of the dust in the Solar System that’s causes the Zodiacal Light.
@ianRobinson @clarebee @AwesomeAstronomy
Oh yeah, I just heard him on a radio segment just this week or actually I think it was last week's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.
Oh yeah, I just heard him on a radio segment just this week or actually I think it was last week's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.
McDyer
marron@clarebee ♥️♥️♥️♥️!
OhsinKomorebi 木漏れ日 in Japanese is literally, "sunlight leaking through trees"
AugusTusk@clarebee Agreed! A nature-bath in dappled morning light calibrates my nervous system towards calm.
TrèsFluke HAS MOVED
bmoreinis=>journa.host@clarebee Gerard Manly Hopkins agrees: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and…
Dock Bunson@clarebee That must be why impressionism & Pointillism calm me.
My personal hypothesis is that's because that's closer to the perpetual motion & interference patterns of what reality actually looks like. Our brains can chill out trying to make it all static and HD.
My personal hypothesis is that's because that's closer to the perpetual motion & interference patterns of what reality actually looks like. Our brains can chill out trying to make it all static and HD.
sunshinen@clarebee dim lighting would be less detail the brain would need to process behind the seens, so less energy expended.
Karen Strickholm@clarebee Especially when there's water involved. 💦
LiemPong_pagong@clarebee chameleons hate this.
Jason Petersen (he)
Justinas Dūdėnaskomorebi
Tassilo@clarebee tbh: That’s the first time I’ve heard that term, I did not know there was a name for that — how cool! Now I can improve the Alt-Text.
Sebastian Hahn@clarebee Absolutely, I run every day, and each day I come across patches like these. And I LOVE them.
Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🪨🚴🌳@clarebee It could be. I've long hypothesized it's the colour green, so could be both :)
Hm… I’m skeptical@clarebee yes! Although I don’t have a place like that near me that doesn’t a road full of traffic nearby, I do occasionally play Zelda just to take nature hikes. It works 💯
Maarten Pelgrim@clarebee I love the idea! You're probably right!
Ronan
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥@clarebee Absolutely! And this picture helps me today 💚
Mark Maguire@clarebee 100% - all the advantages of bright sunlight and lovely cool shade. Totally recuperative environment for me.
vedhed21@clarebee Good theory. I shall seek out such light today to test it.
LeeAgree
@clarebee "we examine the aesthetic and perceptual experience of fractal ‘global-forest’ designs already installed in humanmade spaces and demonstrate how fractal pattern components are associated with positive psychological experiences that can be utilized to promote occupant wellbeing. " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416160/
Aesthetics and Psychological Effects of Fractal Based Design
Highly prevalent in nature, fractal patterns possess self-similar components that repeat at varying size scales. The perceptual experience of human-made environments can be impacted with inclusion of these natural patterns. Previous work has demonstrated ...
Yaoi Box Balloon@clarebee Definitely the opposite for me... when I suffered extreme anxiety, broad daylight made me feel raw and exposed. In my mind, the worst things cpuld happen then.
Shade and night were the best escape.
What a lovely theory. Thank you for teaching me the word ‘dappled’. Now I can describe something that I’ve always been hyper aware of.
🙏🙏
Prabhat Misra@clarebee Beautiful 🎉
Scott Cote@clarebee it is what soothes me while I’m on my long runs
Gerard VilaPied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and…
unlucio 🌍 
@clarebee I think you mean hypothesis
AmazingAmazone@clarebee in Dutch, the term is 'fluisterschaduw': whispershade.
I love this thread as I do dappled light. #dappledlight
I love this thread as I do dappled light. #dappledlight
yawnbox@clarebee reminds me of related research talked about by Nutrition Facts:
"Boosting Anticancer Natural Killer Cell Function with Forrest Bathing"
Friday Favorites: Boosting Anticancer Natural Killer Cell Function with Forest Bathing
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
JeanEvergreen@clarebee I agree, and also the ambient noise of leaves rustling overhead in very light breezes.