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Sounds like you're thinking of a heliostat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliostat

There's a Dutch company selling such things to get more sunlight in your house:

https://www.heliostaat.nl/

I'm not as foolish as I was trying to sound.

> Practical Solar’s[0] web site states that residential customers also use their heliostats for direct space heating, drying mold, melting ice dams on roofs, and melting snow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Solar

In Scandinavia the sun is a rare and brief sighting during the winter. The appearance of the sun during winter is a national event and for a very few brief minutes there is hope that the darkness will one day end.

Even thinking about the possibility that one day the sun might be seen makes me emotional.

Not sure if this was meant as a joke, but it sounded like a fire hazard.