It happens to me at night because not only does it have to be quite dark, I audio need to be dork dark adapted. Your pupil is part of your dark adaption and widens in a mater of seconds. However, your receptors also get doped with rhodopsin, which takes up to 20 minutes to full replenish (blue/uv light bleachers rhodopsin). It’s like being able to lower the F-stop on a camera like normal, but taking 20 minutes to raise the ISO
It varies. If you have this all the time, I’d suspect your sleep duration is not aligned with your sleep cycles. I’ll be more confused if I had dreamy sleep, I’ll be more confused if I wake from REM or deep, and I’ll be very confused if I awake from a dreamy sleep during REM or deep. I don’t think I forget I’m human, but it can take a second to adjust to not having a dream reality. I’m definitely, often enough, entirely confused as to where I am for a moment.
However, this effect is lessened when I awake from light sleep. It feels more natural. There’s a lingering sleepy feeling, but it somehow feels like I’m well rested, even if it’s a short sleep. Sleep cycles are typically 90 minutes (light-rem-deep-rem-light). 6 hours isn’t great, but waking is acceptable. 7.5 is good enough for me. 9 is too much commitment to test.
Ironically, when I drink until bedtime, I can sometimes wake instantly if the timing is right. However, it’s like a low power mode. I’m alert, but lazy. Like I just blinked away my entire sleep. Alcohol tends to prevent REM and disrupt deep sleep.
I like T/W/F more than T/Th/F but I still rather Thursday over Wendedsday
So you changed your argument? You originally said the seats don’t cost more, but now you’re saying everyone is a moron for not choosing the package that flatten seat cost? Even though you checked every flight from both airlines in every country they operate to ensure that, by undeniable fact, seats in a particular row are a flat cost?
You asked where, we showed you where. Imagine arguing that a la carte chocolate mousse doesn’t cost more than vanilla ice cream because you could have chosen all-you-can-eat at the start
That’s why I gave you row 55 pricing. It’s 2nd from the back, the rearmost row with all 9 seats available at the time of looking. I don’t know why you’re so confident there’s no window upcharge when you can clearly verify for yourself that there is, in fact, a way to get it to show you different pricing. Somehow, you’re convinced picking true basic class is not valid because it’s so poor.
That’s a funny edit you added to the parent comment. In your very first comment, you asked “We’re [sic] are people paying extra for a window seat?” and then two different people showed you. Amazing.
So your proof that “this lawsuit is bullshit” is that… If you pick a higher class at the start, it hides the window upcharge as a flat fee? I mean yeah, if I click Premium economy at the start, I get the near-wing seats for free, and I can even grab a rear row steerage seat for free, no discount applied.
You are wrong that there’s NO upcharge for different seats in a row. That’s it.
Confidently incorrect.
Lol I literally just checked for you. Not only is the middle seat cheaper, but the aisle seat is more than the window seat. Picked a large cross-USA trip to make sure it’d have triple seats.
JFK-LAX
Jan 18, 2026
Basic as can be to make sure no upcharges were included
Picked whatever flight was first
787-9, dual aisles with 3 triple seats across.
Aisles are the same across a row, middles are the same as well, regardless of middle triple or side triple
Row 45 (preferred eco) Window is +$70, aisle is +$54, aisle is +$86
Row 55 (eco) window is +$30, middle is +$23, aisle is +$36
Meanwhile, you’re being unnecessarily condescending about wanting a window seat. It’s preference. Good for you and your jetset life. I like window seats, that’s all.
I too have a photo like that. ER-175J (OO) if I remember correctly.
I rode a 787 intercontinentally for the first time earlier this year and was very disappointed by the forced tint. I was really excited to see, I believe, the arctic ice cap. Nothing. Like, I get it’s a long flight and apparently most people just take drugs and sleep, but damn. I would have shielded it with my jacket anyway.
But even still, know how I deal with wanting to nod off when a 4am flight hits day break? A $6 sleep mask. I’m not affected by windows, reading lamps, the crew flicking the lights for fun, that one person typing in Word at full brightness on a red eye flight, or people using flashlights to search their bag.
[Editing for everyone else rolling by: I just checked, middle was cheapest, window was mid price, aisle cost the most. Original comment continues:]
90% sure the middle seats are cheaper when I book United directly. I fly 6 trips a year and am a window addict. I don’t know, doesn’t matter how often I fly, I stare out the window. It’s fascinating every single time. I also don’t have to get up much, so I enjoy not being bothered for everyone else’s bathroom trip. My SO will pick the middle seat, which is why I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it be cheaper.
I have also been burned with a wall seat. I got it on some Embraer (175?) where it was 2 seats each side, I think row 10 on one side and 12 on the other were walls.
I will acknowledge the aisle seat may be better on this new-to-me annual 15 hour flight where the 787 windows were tinted the whole time anyway. Sub-8 hour flights are fine, but the slow creeping of claustrophobia is real on that flight.
They went on strike in the Reagan era and then got fired and replaced.
I say “delve” often in technical breakdowns when writing. I never say it out loud because my hands will tell you we’re digging down into a topic. I use em dashes too, when digressing into an important fact that needs to be mentioned but not expanded upon. It comes from textbooks, not plagiarised LLM gable. Call me assumptive, but I’d expect ley has a higher rate of similar-minded people than other platforms - people that have properly studied textbooks at some point.
You can probably tell I’m human because I usuallyiss a typo somewhere in my post where I hit backspace instead of “M” at the lead of a word, causing two words to questionably mash together. Autocorrect can’t help with those. But that’s what an LLM would say if it knew it’s secrecy was in jeopardy
I think you might be getting false positives on LLM ID, but you’re justified in being skeptical. The Slop is everywhere, no reason to think we’re hidden
Mussolini is who first got described to me as fascist as well. 10 years old, 5th grade. Also similarly, it really took my own effort to separate multiple, shall I say, un-American government descriptors because they were all pumped together as evil. Fascism, dictatorship, communism, and a bit of socialism due to the Nazi’s true party name.
Surprisingly, nationalism just never fell into the mix in school. That’s just patriotism for other countries, right? Right?
Don’t kink-shame Nipples Cuomo
At least it’s short term. “Have a good rest of your day. I don’t give a shit about your tomorrow though”
Downvoting your comment because it’s hard to see my screen outside in the sun
That’s 3 reasons, none of which are any more concrete than the other.
As with all lemmy, the volume is low, but we do have c/artshare here with some frequent callers. Here on World, I think
Are they commonly out there with elad and tungsten? Lead is cheap and super heavy so it makes sense for a sales perspective, but I guess I’d naively believe they’d be a toxic tangle companies wouldn’t want to be part of given how stele is good enough. Tungsten, on the other hand, is certainly heavy, but I’d guess the value of the material and the difficulty of machining it would preclude it from a sales sense.