StringJunky

They were probably barefooted and the ground was wet inside the shelter, allowing the current to travel inside through the bare, damp/wet earth in the shelter. It is electric.

There has been at least one physical scientist on here that was devout but he compartmentalised them separately. Science tells you how things behave, not how to live your life, which is what religion essentially does. Looked at this way, there is no dissonance.

They are two separate theories. Both the Moon and Earth attract each other. Relativity and Newton's are the only theories that are empirically supported. Scientists are working on a theory of quantised gravity (gravitons) where virtual particles are exchanged but it has not yet come to fruition.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-many-plants-would-i-need-airtight-room-be-able-breathe

It can be, if chosen wisely. In it's default white state at the wrong time of day it's worse.

...must learn to remodel my online personality.... Most sockpuppeteers have an agenda based around a pet idea that they can't let go of and that's why they keep coming back.

Science has not yet worked out the blueprint for creating life from scratch. They don't even know how life got started in the first place on Earth. You can allay that fear because no one is synthesising any form of life, let alone HIV. I think you need Arete or CharonY (biology experts) to give you the lowdown on peptide manufacture.

Good. I suppose, what I'm wanting to get across from this experience, and a recent one, is that shared catharsis can help you heal painful experiences, or even memories, even though there is no solution. Talking is good.

The hardest thing to live with is the uncertainty. If you gamble to leave it until later and die early the distress will be much more for those left behind. Am I understanding you correctly?

The endpoint is the same, but the catharsis and final goodbye can be longer in one; one has more time to get their head around it and have the the opportunity to say what one needs to say. If time is too short you may not have the time for privacy with the loved ones individually, or they may not have time for you because everyone will likely be around crowding each other out to give attention to you.

Ultimately, for me, family life is about sailing the ship together and sharing the experiences; commensurate with the age of ones children, of course. I think mutual catharsis, although the initial revelation is so emotive and potentially stressful, can begin immediately with everyone concerned, as you say. The children may not quite grasp at the time the full picture but I think later, as adults, they will appreciate the memories of shared catharsis instead feeling bereft of the truth. As an adult, I missed this opportunity; I'm sure many bereaved children, beyond a certain age, will feel the same way later if denied. Yes, that's fine, but very hard if you've only got days to live when told it's terminal.

My dreams, that I remember, seem to be an allegory to how I've been feeling recently, especially if I'm stuck on something that's important to me. I've also noticed upon waking, but not fully, that some character I know, is explaining things to me in an internal monologue that is very sensible and coherent; it is very real until I fully awaken. I like those periods because it seems to be my brain reconciling the things that are bothering me; lucid dreaming of an almost auditory nature. As I understand it, sensory data streams hit the brain in a pretty asynchronous fashion and the brain orders and edits it all into a contiguous experience that we understand consciously . Perhaps, the garbled dreams are real-time manifestations of these raw data streams?

It was moi. I'm really pleased that your experience concurs with mine. This is definitely not a spurious phenomenon and the solution seems to work in the light of our experience. <pun alert> https://justgetflux.com/

Yes, light at night can adversely affect melatonin production, which governs circadian rhythms. Blue light is especially rich in white LED lighting so the effect is worse, particularly as you are often directly staring at them in the form of TV, mobile phone and computer screens. Add the emergence of white LED room lighting, you've got a perfect recipe for insomnia and its consequences. The solution is to automatically govern the colour output spectrum to match the time of day i.e. bluest at mid-day, through orange to reddest in the evening. LED lighting has the potential to be the most energy efficient and circadian-rhythm-friendly option, if planned appropriately and the right options chosen for the situation. I know that you can get software to automatically manage colour output in computers and hand held devices; it may already be a native option in some brands like the latest Apple devices, I think.

That was originally the first thing I learned,o r surmised somehow, that this was one of the purposes of dreaming; virtual role playing. I think I picked this up when I was doing a lot of lucid dreaming as teenager. No prizes for what my favourite dreaming scenarios were.

I agree, I imagine most of this occurring at night. I think dreaming brain serves several functions just like the wakeful brain does.

I think, fever dreams are caused by the body or brain being too hot and it can respond to this environmentally caused stress by eliciting the appropriate dreams to make you move or shake off any covers in an attempt to cool down i.e it's one of the brain's ways of regulating it's nocturnal environment The narratives or order of these dreams - the intrinsic meaning - don't matter as long as they are disturbing enough to wake you up. it's the physical end result that matters; temperature regulation in this case.

The proponents of nuclear are not dark forces.

There's too much tap dancing around the problems.

The scientist is answering the question as best they can. They most likely don't know that information; should there be an analysis first of the vitals of the questioner before answering?