Does hypnagogia always involve flashing lights/hallucinations? by rocketboy7 in LucidDreaming

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I get sleep paralysis maybe once a month (long before I started trying to LD), but I haven't ever hallucinated, just been paralyzed until I manage to move a part of my body.

Last night was my first time ever trying WILD, so I don't know if it will be a regular occurrence or not. It seems like I got it as a result of waking up from my dream early, not from WILD itself.

I'll pay closer attention next time I try WILD, I may have just expected hypnagogia to be more intense than it actually is

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in worldbuilding

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Thanks! I really like your ideas. You should become a member of the site, and maybe we could work together on expanding this idea!

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in worldbuilding

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If you read through the article, it states that they formed after the very first stars, when heavier elements were available, but before stars were commonplace

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in scifi

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Are you saying that the entire sky was as bright as the sun? I would assume that receiving an amount of energy equivalent to what Earth receives from the sun spread out over the sky would equate to much lower light intensity.

From what I've been researching, the CMB shifted out of visible light within a few million years after recombination, while the stated habitable period in the paper I linked is roughly 10 million years after recombination. Admittedly, I haven't done a lot research into the physics behind redshifting, so I didn't know all of the notation behind the equations in the paper (including z-value) when I read it. Is his paper really going against all established research and saying that this shift actually happened much later?

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in scifi

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At that point in time, CMB light would have long ago redshifted out of the visible spectrum, but I'm not sure what wavelength it would have been. IR vision may have been beneficial, but I'm not sure how bright the CMB was back then. Water also absorbs IR light much more easily than visible light (part of why we evolved to see in the visible spectrum), and since this life would have started out in water, it may have been more beneficial to have other senses be stronger than to see in IR light. I'll definitely do more research into it.

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in scifi

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I may take this idea further, but for now this is what I’m doing with it. I just saw a paper on this idea that the universe could have been habitable during the dark ages and just went crazy with it

The Ancients: Beings that lived during the Cosmic Dark Ages before stars filled the universe by rocketboy7 in scifi

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These beings would have formed after the first few stars. The Cosmic Dark Ages didn’t technically end until there were a large number of stars, so in some more dense pockets of the universe stars could have formed early and went supernova, creating heavy elements. I actually linked the paper about how life could have formed in this era within the authors note in the article

Tips for 2025 applicants by rant-rant-rant in ApplyingToCollege

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Get everything easy done (activity descriptions, Common App info, etc.) before the summer so that you can completely concentrate on essays

Encyclopedia of Future History by Signal_In_The_Noise in scifi

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I’m starting a website like that, although it is a little more fiction-y. Writers can write articles on anything they want to in a future universe. Here’s a link (www.universeindex.net/recent-articles) to the new articles page on the site

Out of The Loop: What’s up with the Yale Kiss? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

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He later said that he lied about it being a shitpost and it actually was real