I guess the grow bigger in the water thing because I can't imagine how hard it would be to fall asleep if I'm glowing.
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The second sounds like it has far more room for stupid bullshit, so that one
It's night half the time, and I'll be really visible if I'm glowing whether I want to be or not. So, definitely the second one. Prolonged water contact in a visible place is easier to avoid, if needed.
I plan to re-enact Gulliver pulling along the Lilliputian armada.
Wear opaque clothes
Ah shit, why didn't I think of that?
You would have to cover everything including your face, though, and that can get you funny looks in a different way.
Ski mask and sun glasses ;) since you need it sitting dark night, it didn't matter much, how it looks. Reminds me in the movie "Hollow Man"
Take a shower and destroy your house. I'm going for glowing.
If it's toy dino-speed, you'll be significantly taller after a longer shower, but not giant, and nothing will break. If I actually do the thing from the Spongebob opening on contact with water, I'd reconsider.
But imagine that you get stuck in a water pipe or wedged somewhere in a rain storm. Glowing is annoying but not nearly as bad as potentially drowning because your car crashed into a lake and you can no longer escape through the window.
I feel like those situations are already life-threatening to some degree, so I'll take my chances.
I'd assume growth over the course of just exiting a car wouldn't be too significant.
is this 'glow in the dark' like i'm radioactive and constantly glow a little bit, or is this 'glow in the dark' like i absorb a little bit of light and slowly re-emit it, so if i wait long enough in darkness i'll stop glowing?
You constantly glow with a dim yellow-green light, just bright enough to read in
Is it only my skin or, like, the inside of my eyelids too?
Just the outside of your body
Wow, both those options suck. Nice dilemma, OP
I will bathe in the ocean and at long last fulfill my ambition of punching mother gia in the face.
Sex would be weird, but probably a good kind. Until it's painful.
You'd basically be a dog.
What
Fun fact, we already glow in the dark, just not in a way we can see.
Bigger when wet would be kinda neat, but if it's based off of toy dinosaurs then the glow doesn't last all night. So I can take the glow and use it for sick pranks and cosplays or whatever. Be like alien Mr Burns.
I can imagine glowing in the dark would be both a blessing and a curse depending on the circumstances. If you're lost in a cave that could be lifesaving. Trying to sleep in the dark though? That's gonna be tough haha. I think I'd still choose to glow in the dark though so I could fuel sweet rave parties
My wife says the same thing about sleeping with a light on, I just close my eyes and don't see anything i must have thick eyelids
Yea but you're eyes would glow...the way I see it, this question is, "would you become an insomniac or explode when drinking water"
I like glow in the dark stuff, but I also like to be sneaky, so...idk. Conflicted.
you guys are smoking some strong stuff lol
"But I'm straight"
"So is spaghetti... Until it gets wet."
"Okay but that's a bad analogy because I just turn ten stories tall when I get wet."
Would these powers be supernatural, or bound by the laws of physics? Like, does glowing require extra calories? And does my electrolyte balance go out of whack when I’m in water?
Magical. You are perfectly healthy in each case
Damn, if I choose option 1, I'm gonna have to apply for the CIA.
spoiler
cuz "glowie"
I love to swim and the water one sounds really inconvenient. I choose glow! You would never really be afraid of the dark- like your own personal night light. Maybe i could get a job doing those nighttime ghost tours.
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