Love it so far - used it less than 1 hour and love it.
I just got my Verilux happy lite today - Bought mine online direct from the Verilux company (big sale/better deal) (Sorry Amazon).<br /><br />Anyway -  I always wanted to try one of these - but they were always in the $200.00 and up range - too pricey for a little sunshine.  Anyway - each winter I seem to grow slower, and more lethargic, more passe', lower and lower energy.  So I got to looking at these again and bought it when I found the deal.<br /><br />Anyway - as a first time user of happy lite/SAD/sunshine lights - here's my take.  In the evenings I get very, very sluggish and dragging around.  I took it out of the box, assembled it, and tried placement where I wanted over my computer.  Although it was 9:30, I flipped the switch on and thought I would try it for 15 minutes - but no more.  (Take 1 hour to get 10,000 LUX and in 30 minutes you get 5,000 LUX).  Anyway, the little 15 minutes I used it I definitely could tell a pick me up.  I felt a little more energy and clearheadedness.  Really I did.  I popped up and cleaned up a little in the kitchen and set myself of to knock out some paperwork.  After a while I started to settled back in to a late evening sleepy mode.  So - I say it works based on the brief exposure I had tonight.  I can't wait until tommorrow morning to try it out for the full time.  I look forward to having 'full energy' again during the remains of these somber wintry months, so I can get things done and not be walking around like a zombie.<br /><br />RE: the cheapness of the product stated in earlier comments.  Not a problem.  It's not THAT cheaply made.  It's a solid plastic cover on the outside and metal on the inside.  The outer plastic cover (called a diffuser) lines up in the ridges ok, but one side seems to not exactly lay flat in the ridge.  No biggy. I can live with it.  I'm not touching it all the time and after all, I'm using it for the 'light' it produces.<br /><br />It was MUCH bigger than the picture makes it appear.  It is as tall as a shoe box standing on it's side.  A little taller actually.  I'd best describe it as the size of a half a bread box standing on it's side (the old plastic ones that nobody has used in the past 50 years).  Or expect it to be about 1/3 of the width your computer hard drive box (assuming you have a standard one).<br /><br />Anyway, I figure in the morning this will have the same effect as a good cup of coffee.<br />I look forward to having energy and being highly active all day and getting lots done!!<br />It is sure to help me reclaim my days and hours.<br /><br />Yaaaaaaaaaay.  I'm so glad I finally tried this!<br />I say if you have *any* slow, sleepy, fatigued, groggy, slumbering, lethargic symptoms at all during the day in the cold months - this is well worth the money!!!<br /><br />t.
Rating: 5 stars