did you bothered to find the study based on which this was modeled ? If you do you would find that this effect lasts for a few seconds . On diwali night it might last for a few hours at max . They do not cause the smog . <| sep |> Nah , I just realised it was just me . My post got downvoted by everybody , so the point wasn ' t well taken , I guess . <| sep |> Main character ' s name is Dream . Dreams are pretty big in the Sandman series . <| sep |> Women are the most important thing that a preindustrialized society has . The size of a people ' s next generation is almost entirely decided by the number of women in a group . If you have 50 , 000 men and 50 , 000 women , you can lose 20 , 000 men in battle and your next generation can still be 50 , 000 people . Evolutionarly , men are just less useful to society than women are . Population size is a really big deal when the only thing keeping your tribe in existence is not losing battles .