Fluorescent lamps are also very unpleasant, for the same reason, as are “neon” signs if you look at them up close.
Sodium lamps are much less objectionable because their spectral spikes are at much longer wavelength.
Sodium lamps are much less objectionable because their spectral spikes are at much longer wavelength.
The only sodium lamps I'm familiar with are high pressure sodium, which emit a garrish orange hue.