The lights remind you or an aurora borealis lights show. I love how you can change the colors to my son’s favorite; blue and green. We turn the timer on it so it will shut off after 2 hours. One thing I hate is when you turn it on it says “bluetooth mode” everytime. We have never needed to use the bluetooth feature and probably never will. I also wish the light on it would dim more. It can be very bright when you first turn it on. My son doesn’t care about any of those things so maybe it is just the parent particulars I have. I do love that it has a remote to change the settings. A few times we have lost the remote which is super annoying since you can’t change much without it.