I find being outside in the garden intense

[vamper]

My husband says I'm a vampire... I prefer to be indoors with the curtains closed. I do enjoy the garden a little bit, but if it's too hot, I can't be out there for long.

Even under the parasol. If there's a breeze it's OK. But I do find it quite bright and exhausting to be out there for too long.

I'm happy to be in the sun when I'm on holiday by the pool or at the beach, as you can go and cool off properly. I prefer the pool as it's not as exhausting as the beach. But I mix it up and go to the beach for a bit sometimes. The whole day at the beach is a lot, but a couple of hours is fine.

I could never just go to a park and sit in the blazing sun for example. I used to be able to when I was younger. Am I just getting old ?

I prefer spring and summer. It's definitely my season of choice. But I do struggle with the brightness and heat if I'm sitting out for too long and prefer to be inside for most of the time. Right now the curtains are drawn because I'm keeping the heat out, but I quite like that it's a bit darker in here than usual. Bright light is just too much for my eyes sometimes

Am I a vampire ? Or just heading towards middle age. I'm not 40 yet.

I am like this too.
I suffer with chronic migraine so find the brightness all too much.
I wear sunglasses when it's light cloud even. Have the blinds partly or fully closed depending on what I can tolerate.

I love being out by the coast but still need breaks from all the brightness.

I'm no good in heat either. I hate being cold but also no good in 20s up these days. Low 20s is lovely but only if I'm not trying to do anything! Even walking going shop to shop leaves me sweaty and horrible.

I hate the pressure to be "out making the most of the weather".

I'm like you too! I do love a sunshine holiday, but can't abide the thought of traipsing around in sun so wouldn't want a city break in Greece or such, pool holiday though yes!
I usually have sunglasses handy and I'm my lounge, as
Much as I love light in the house and have loads of windows and doors, I do like to be able to shut bright light out so have blinds and light curtains in the lounge etc.
I've always been like this so don't think it's anything other than perhaps a trait (I have ND children and wonder if there's some sort of link genetically) and I get overwhelmed by brighter light.

I like sunlight as long as it's not too intensely on me, so I like a bright house, but can't stand it if it's very bright right on me (I actually feel that way about all very intense light directly in my eyes). We have a house at the beach and tend to go early in the morning and then again late in the day - never in the middle of the day.

I sat next to a neurologist at a dinner party once and he said there tends to be a correlation between people who dislike very bright light and people who get migraines, car sickness and pregnancy sickness. I don't get migraines, but do get the other two.

@Damnspot

I actually think it's unlucky and depressing to not be able to have more empathy for people whose experience is different to yours. I'm very rarely cold, but have friends who are freezing at the first hint of a breeze, so I just figure we're all different and try to make things as comfortable for them as possible when they're at my house, not how unlucky and depressing it would be to be constantly cold.

You said you lived in a warmer and sunnier country - it’s safe to say that you live nearer the equator. I notice you haven’t said that you don’t live nearer the equator - I’m fairly confident that you do, and you are just trying to deflect.

Does the country you live in have a lower proportion of people with very pale skin and eyes than the uk? Because you do understand that is why people struggle with bright light in the UK, don’t you? Because many of us are very pale.

The whole post is about brightness. What do you mean by “sunniness” heat? Or brightness?

And surely you do understand that the fact that bright/sunny days are less frequent makes them harder to deal with? No?

Im not the one unable to read hun 😎