For me for much of my life I had this vision of books I want to write about. I assumed it's all fiction. But I found it frustrating having to try and think of a storyline, and try to make it interesting and try to market it. I didn't care, all I want to do is write it. And I wasn't interested in creative ideas to make it more compelling. I just want to write it exactly as it is in my mind. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like something I want to record accurately based on memory rather than something I'm just trying to make for the sake of intrigue.
I never published a damn thing. At least not formally. I wrote a million things online but I've had no order to it. Still, while having no order, I seem to remember the same details over and over when I repeat the information years later.
So I remember this species that were reptiloid but not with slits in their eyes, regular human-like pupils. Their body shape was pear-like / penguin-like. Mainly endothermic. The only reptiloid aspect was the skin is a bit more scaley than human and are largely shades of green with spots and gradients of hughes of all sorts. A multitude of crystals sprout from the top of the head the same way that bone does. It's a naturally forming light-emitting diode. They're small. As they grow they can modulate the light very finely so that it can give off all kinds of variances. They can act as emitters and receivers, with a retina at the base. They had machinery that can be placed to make digital algorithms to interact with the light. It's like learning to type with your fingers. This of course pales in comparison to remote viewing but seemed to have a function on a digital platform. So much of this was likely enginered not just evolved.
Their pear-like bodies were built so they could sleep kind of sitting. Like that principal of a pin that always stays up because of the bottom-heavy weight.
A lot of the biology is very specific. Sexual reproduction, digestion and elimination, symbiosis with plants that they likely engineered that way. Lots of specific things about their politics and culture. But there's lots of holes in my knowledge. So I fill in gaps and then get stuck and go "that part I have no idea." Funny enough, I don't try to think of some way to fill the gaps, I just wait until I think I have the right memory, if it ever comes up.