To NOT like the evenings stretching...

[IWantNiceNeighbours]

I absolutely adore the dark nights and love it when the clocks go back in October, love driving home from work in the dark. Love lying in bed all cozy at 7pm looking up at the big, bright moon. Love being at home in the warm or going for a night walk and looking at everyone's Halloween decorations.

I don't like the lighter evenings! I find it harder to sleep, feel like I should be doing more or that everyone is doing something sociable and interesting. All the twats come out getting drunk in their gardens or blasting their shit music out and motorbikes revving about everywhere.

Fuck the light evenings... leave me in the winter!

I hate ceiling lights and have removed most of them. They cast a horrid light on everything whereas table lights create a softer, gentler atmosphere.

Nope, I love the lighter evenings. The first realisation every year that it's getting lighter (on a club run last Thursday) literally makes me startle and laugh with joy. I spend most evenings carting kids around to clubs with toddler in tow, the darkness is so oppressive.

I assume you don't have dependent children? Do you have a partner? I can't imagine a life where I'm in bed at 7pm!

I also have SAD, just in reverse to you, which is one of the reasons I love winter.

I don't understand why people take it so personally sometimes though. I like Scotland's temperate climate, it absolutely suits me. I know what I'm getting with it. Summer in small doses!

A hot chocolate is for life, not just for Christmas

I was gonna pack mine away in spring but I reckon I'll keep it out and live like a seasonal renegade 🥰 ☕

I’m so looking forward to lighter nights and sunny mornings. I hate from November to January with little sunlight, rubbish weather and the darkness descending at 4pm. I much prefer summer dresses, getting my washing out on the line, having the doors and windows open all day and feeling the sun on my face.

I LOVE being able to walk home after work when it’s dusty instead of pitch black.

I also like to see the sunrise on my morning commute.
my favourite time is probably between now until about May (as long as the air is still crisp in the morning😍) and then again early to mid autumn.

Pitch black at 5 pm is lovely when I don’t have to be functioning at 5 pm…. But I unfortunately do, usually!

I changed my living room light from one with one bulb to a fitting with 3 for extra lighting 😂

I do have a lamp on my bedside table but that's only so I can turn it off from bed. I would prefer to read under the big light (or as I consider it the proper light). That's the only lamp I own though.

I like autumn and winter usually but we've had so many grey and wet days I feel like all I have done is go to work and be locked away.
Normally I'd go to the Lakes at the weekend but we've had so much strong and gusting wind i'ts often not been safe on the mountains. When it has been ok, ive been working. ( sods law obviously!)
Most evenings,its been raining so Ive not had an hour or so on my bike or it'd been biting cold that there's no joy in it.

Im definitely ready for light nights and some sun on my bones!

Quite!

You do you! Knitting and choir would be “depressing” for me!

YABU. It’s unhealthy

Well yes - I was expressing an opinion, as have you. Obviously we should all do what we prefer!

I also have reverse SAD I think as when depressed it has usually been in the summer and I am at my most content in the winter.I know someone with bi polar disorder and this is the case for them, a clear pattern of being high in the winter and low in the summer so it is a definite thing for them.

I've been on holidays in countries where the daytime of roughly 6am to 6:30pm is the main thing that stops me dreaming of living there.

i live in Scotland and can just about forgive darkness at 3:30pm with the promise of still being light enough to go for a walk or run at 9-10pm.

sounds like you’re the one that would be better off relocating.

I'm a big light person. I am very short sighted and don't see well in low light.

I feel the same about gloomy light and also have a bendy neck-light for knitting and crochet.

These kinds of threads make me wonder if the apparent need for constant cosiness, gentle lighting, velvetised hot chocolate, cocooning ourselves away from the outside world, changing out of any non-cosy clothes as soon as we get home etc is really a recent obsession or is it just that we talk about it more or that it's become an aesthetic / trend rather than just something people privately like. Is it a reaction to the fact that the world seems particularly precarious and hostile at the moment? Though that's not really a new thing.

I'm the same, blind as a bat, but I can't stand overhead lights anywhere.

I think it's just as simple as people having have preferences. It's no more outlandish to like bracing cold or darker environments than it is to like the feel of the sun or wearing less clothes. Some people just don't like being warm or worse, actively hot. I've always preferred autumn and winter, ever since I was a child.

I do find that in my experience it seems to correspond a lot to when people were born - that might be a coincidence but genuinely, I and all my colleagues who were born after September prefer autumn/winter. My daughter and her dad were born at the height of summer and love the sun. My sister was was born in March and loves springtime and walking with her dogs at that time of year.

I was born at midsummer and am a summer hater so definitely not following that trend.

Yes, people have preferences, but I don't think online chat and social media were so full of cosiness and shutting out the world 10 years ago.

I hate the dark nights from 4pm. Its so depressing. Give me light till 10pm any day.
I like to go for an evening walk in the summer, everyone is out and about , kiddies on their scooters, people looking happy

I used to just hate winter but now I hate winter and summer 🤣 winter is too dark and cold, summer is too bright and hot. Rather than hating the whole year except for winter try to accept spring and autumn too! There's no one having bbqs and playing in paddling pools in those seasons, you just need better blinds to ignore the daylight, BlocBlinds are great for that, add some white noise and you won't notice and noise around you 😊

I get it OP! Getting into bed in a pitch black room every night to read my kindle is bliss.

It’s not the same in the summer. The guilt of feeling like you have to be productive when it’s light!

I like it getting dark soon after 6pm, not 4pm. Late light evenings are exhausting, I don’t wind down so well.

I disagree. I was born in November and loathe winter and short, gloomy days. I see this trotted out a lot and think it is just simply personal preference.

Yes, people have preferences, but I don't think online chat and social media were so full of cosiness and shutting out the world 10 years ago.

I agree @1000StrawberryLollies . I see it more than ever these days. I wonder if those who like to shut out the world have a problem with the outside world in general - extreme introverts, people with mental health issues, other issues?

I tend to hibernate more in winter because the dark, wet weather is so extremely demotivating to me.

I also don't get the guilt about not being productive when it is light, and have blackout curtains in the bedroom.