I'm in much better spirits now than I was before the weekend. It's almost suspicious how it coincided with the reappearance of the sun after days of cloudiness. Yet another aspect of the weather that affects me, it seems.
I can reliably measure low temperature (eczema), lack of humidity (dry skin) and lack of solar radiation (oversleeping and melancholy).
I'm not a human. I'm a weather station.
@thor
Have you tried supplementing vitamin D?
@skypage I've been supplementing with vitamin D for a few months now. Before my surgery in February, they took blood tests and prescribed medications. I've taken it even before that, but nothing quite invigorates me so much as sunshine and warm weather. Given the choice, I'd spend my winters somewhere else than Norway. Of course, this would imply spending over half the year abroad, since the winters are so long here.
@thor
Even where I am in California, about the only time of day it's possible to synthesize our own vitamin D is around midday. I can only imagine how much less opportunity there is at your latitude. I wonder if in addition there's an entirely psychological component to sun exposure that benefits people that hasn't been quantified.