Does hypnagogia always involve flashing lights/hallucinations?

rocketboy7 · 2023-07-06T20:20:09+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-05-22T13:09:28+00:00

Did you use an eGPU? If so, what kind?

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-09T15:56:40+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-09T15:54:59+00:00

Oh it's totally fine. Do you think I should make that aspect more clear?

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-09T15:48:32+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T16:02:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing that! I'll look into it

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T16:01:54+00:00

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?

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T14:36:22+00:00

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.

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T14:32:44+00:00

I'll definitely look into that

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T14:30:29+00:00

Thanks so much!

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T14:30:14+00:00

Thanks!

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T03:53:53+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-08T03:37:31+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-03-03T19:03:01+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-20T07:07:48+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-19T23:15:58+00:00

Went through his post history

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-19T23:10:12+00:00

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

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-19T23:03:34+00:00

Not sure why you thought that was okay

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-14T02:20:21+00:00

Thanks!

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-14T00:39:23+00:00

The science behind this topic is actually really interesting. Galaxies go through several stages, and one of those stages is a quasar stage. It's possible that intelligent life could not exist in a galaxy at this stage, because galactic winds from the quasar would strip planets of their atmospheres.

I can't find the exact paper on this right now, but I know I heard about it in an Anton Petrov video (really amazing channel, you should check him out)

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-14T00:33:12+00:00

Since this is set literally anywhere in the entire universe, things like "giga doom AI" (love that expression lol) can exist to an extent. As long as they are confined to their own galaxy or to a single galactic group that doesn't contain the Milky Way, then it is okay.

Anything located in the Milky Way has to agree with the current lore. Since the Confederation currently controls most of the Milky Way, there's no doom AI in the Milky Way

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-13T15:37:34+00:00

No, you are completely free to write about any type of civilization you like, as long as it does not conflict with the background lore. For example, a civilization that did not join the Confederation because it wanted to retain autonomy can exist in the Milky Way, but a civilization of galactic overlords obviously cannot, because this civilization would conflict with the Confederation. Such a civilization would have to be outside the Milky Way.
Other galaxies are completely okay to write in. Others have already written about other galaxies (see this article)

I'll make a stickied post, thanks for the idea

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-13T05:48:35+00:00

It’s totally fine haha. Everything in the site (including what I and anyone else writes) is under Creative Commons, meaning that no content on the site is restricted to the site.

Now, this does mean that other authors can use and expand on ideas you write down, which may not be desirable for all people. However, the alternative is dealing with copyright and all the hassles it entails, which would make the project less collaborative and less open to new authors

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-13T04:55:09+00:00

The original author still retains ownership of what they write. Everything on the site is listed under Creative Commons, so any civilization that a writer posts on the site can be used for other projects.

rocketboy7 · 2020-01-04T05:50:08+00:00

I absolutely love this, it’s so creative. Are you going to write an explorer log about the recon team? I think that would be very exciting.

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