Reminder that it's no longer considered polite to lap up a small portion of your neighbor's essence while you are both suspended in the cryonic soup phase between time planes. In the past it would remind us all of our continued existence, but so many people began to lap more than their share that most people who have made adequate preparations have an automated, titrated autolap system. If you perceive someone with a pneumatic hum tuned to 48kHz, don't worry, they aren't at risk of premature evaporation into the intertemporal space and you don't need to slurp or lap at them
The moral judgment into a naughty and nice list of Christmas is just a cultural escape valve to strike a sense of fear in the week before the new year carcinization aurora. If you have not adequately shielded your ascension nucleus, the only part of your essence to be preserved between gumbifications, you have one week to make emergency preparations or seek shelter in the hexagonal antinode seams where it is least effective. Otherwise, the curtain formed by the rift between layers sweeps longitudinally around the earth, dessicating rather than releasing prepared husks, who then need to double-gumbify to catch up and release the agony of being trapped between layers