Fleuroscent lights.

Interesting you mention this.

i've always been sensitive to fluorescent lights. Prior to having lyme.

I would hate going into the big box stores...would get a headache.

In fact, we had a fluorescent light bar in our laundry room...and I had my husband replace it.
It bothered me.

I've never discerned if they increased my brain fog or not, it's possible though, I am at my worst conversationally at those times. I just flat out can't tolerate them with my blue eyes, since acquiring Lyme. I've asked that they be dimmed when I'm in a Dr's. office. It's almost painful, makes my eye muscle control even less effective and I blink repeatedly.

Same problem with bright sunlight though too. I have to squint or wear shades.

Lol!

Simon - before I clicked on the link I knew which movie it was going to be.
I saw it many years ago.

Exactly - the buzzing and flickering - that's what the one in our laundry room was doing...I was doing laundry without the light on until my husband switched to incandescent lighting.

I have blue eyes, but have the advantage of having healed once, so I know that my issues are due to the infections.

The fluorescent lights in stores used to bring on more brain fog, and chemical sensitivities (to perfumes/aftershaves/other smells) would send me into an absolute panic attack every time for a while. The more I detoxed and healed, the less it would bother me. Now, I just don't like being in stores for very long because they exhaust me. I can go 'play' outside for hours, but leave me in a store for an hour, and I'm toast.

What I did when I was at my worst was to wear one of those big floppy hats, sunglasses and used an MP3 player every time I went into a store. It was an amazing help! I could suddenly shop for what I needed and get out of the store without having to 'race out' to only calm the panic attack because I couldn't find my way out of the store (even though I had passed by the exit several times, it just didn't register) - only to have to calm myself in the car and try again. We needed the groceries!!! I couldn't just go home and hubby was working 12 hour days, 7 days a week back then, so I couldn't ask him to go for me either!