Serotonin is associated with boosting your mood and helping you feel calm and focused. Without sun exposure, your serotonin levels dip, which can be associated with a higher risk of major depression and generally feeling down in the dumps.
So, before you start journaling about your feelings, and putting on that old Leonard Cohen album, try getting out in the sun and see how that makes you feel. Vitamin D is another health benefit given to us by our oldest pal in the sky. Vitamin D plays a big role in bone health and low Vitamin D levels have been linked to rickets in children and bone diseases like osteoporosis.
So how much sun do you need to get enough Vitamin D? It only takes minutes of sunlight exposure on your arms, hands and face to get your daily value. The darker your complexion, the more time in the sun. Forget choking down a chalky vitamin every morning, just get outside for a bit and let the sun do its thing. Another benefit of the sun is that it can actually treat skin conditions.
Doctors have recommended UV radiation exposure to treat things like psoriasis, acne, jaundice, and eczema. So before you run out and start lathering your face with creams and wipes, give the sun a chance to play doctor. Until I need to know a certain fact about the character, all the possibilities stay open out there in that universe of possibilities.
If I set something in concrete prematurely, it could be a stumbling block later, so I try to keep an open mind about details until they become necessary to the story.
If I explore a character too early, that can lock me into a situation that might be difficult to work with later. Vampires and pregnancy: when did that idea occur to you? How does that work?
Bella reads about several real vampire legends—the Danag, Estrie, Upier, etc. In the novel, I only mentioned a few of the many legends I read through. The unique feature about that legend was that the incubus could father children. Hmmm , I said, and I filed that kernel of an idea away for later. When I decided to write the first sequel to Twilight Forever Dawn , I knew it was going to revolve around a hybrid baby from the outset. Everything I wrote was pointed in that direction.
I focused my answers on the female half of the equation—female vampires cannot have children because their bodies no longer change in any aspect. There were many statements on this subject purported to have come from me, but I never made those comments because, obviously, I knew where this was going.
None of this story is possible. Within the context of the fantasy, however, this is how it works:. Vampires are physically similar enough to their human origins to pass as humans under some circumstances like cloudy days. There are many basic differences. They appear to have skin like ours, albeit very fair skin. The skin serves the same general purpose of protecting the body. However, the cells that make up their skin are not pliant like our cells, they are hard and reflective like crystal.
A fluid similar to the venom in their mouths works as a lubricant between the cells, which makes movement possible note: this fluid is very flammable. A fluid similar to the same venom lubricates their eyes so that their eyes can move easily in their sockets. The lubricant-venom in the eyes and skin is not able to infect a human the way saliva-venom can.
Though there is no venom replacement that works precisely like blood, many of the functions of blood are carried on in some form. Also, the nervous system runs in a slightly different but heightened way. Some involuntary reactions, like breathing, continue in that specific example because vampires use the scents in the air much more than we do, rather than out of a need for oxygen. The normal reactions of arousal are still present in vampires, made possible by venom-related fluids that cause tissues to react similarly as they do to an influx of blood.
Like with vampire skin—which looks similar to human skin and has the same basic function—fluids closely related to seminal fluids still exist in male vampires, which carry genetic information and are capable of bonding with a human ovum. She overcame the major obstacles in her path and fought her way to the place she wanted to be.
Stories need conflict, and the conflicts that are Bella-centric are resolved. It makes me sad, of course, but I was expecting it. The negative was more than I was braced for, but that was because the book sold a lot more copies than I expected.
It was bigger than I thought it would be on both the positive and the negative sides. Because no book is a good book for everyone. Conversely, there are books that I adore that no one else seems to care about. A very common trope in vampire fiction is that vampires can't walk in the sun, and will die if they try to.
Wikipedia's Vampire folklore by region article doesn't offer an answer, and neither does the source of much vampiric lore, Bram Stocker's Dracula. Sunlight limits the Count's powers , but it doesn't kill the creature. We should perhaps first note that vampires are hardly the only creatures that can not stand sunlight; it is a common attribute among mystical creatures that they only appear at night, and that some of them die in sunlight we can take as examples Grendel of Beowulf , and the Chinese jiangshi , a creature that originally was a reanimated corpse that died when exposed to sunlight, but has acquired more attributes of Western vampires in modern lore.
This general association with the night seems to have been a feature of the early folklore vampires, one of the few aspects that survives into the modern vampire in folklore, the vampire is a dirty, wild, bloated thing, governed by primal urges; they seem more akin to zombies than Count Dracula. It also featured in the vampire works that saw a huge boom in the early 19th century, such as Byron's The Giaour , in which the titular creature is doomed to walk the earth at night and drain the blood of everyone in his family.
This also illustrated why, even if the step from "only appears at night" to "dies if exposed to sun" is not a long one, it took a while to take it: early vampires tended to be cursed to walk the earth in tragic isolation. For someone cursed like that, having such an easy way to kill themselves was obviously not a useful trait.
In stories where vampires were antagonists more or less monstrous , having them be killed off by something as ordinary as sunlight would easily be seen as anti-climatic; far better to have a showdown with fire or wooden poles. If you're looking for a Doylist answer, as it were, vampirism is linked to the actual disease porphyria.
Someone with chronic porphyria develops blisters after being out in the sun for a short amount of time. A number of the symptoms of chronic porphyria can be linked to the classic appearance of vampires.
As other users have said, the characteristic of being hostile to the sunlight is not unique to vampires, it is common in many creatures in folklore from around the world.
One notable example is in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure , in which soldiers were equipped with large UV lights to destroy vampires. Vampedia Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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