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Re: So, what was your conclusion?
Posted By: Forrest of B.orgDate: 12/4/06 9:07 p.m.

In Response To: Re: So, what was your conclusion? (Frungi)

: I suppose the “dreams”, incomprehensible as they may be, could be our brain’s
: interpretation of our much more incomprehensible jaunt outside reality. I
: imagine that stuff would make your brain explode if you saw it as it was,
: so the brain reinterprets it in terms you can understand (i.e. random
: hallways, monsters trying to kill you, and weird terminals). It never made
: sense to me that you can be killed in these dreams, but I’m sure a
: mis-step outside reality (i.e. wandering into enemy fire) would easily end
: you.

This is how I interpreted it in Eternal, too.



"You are destiny." I saw these words in a vision, or they were spoken to me in a dream. I've always been a daydreamer. Always reflecting on the past, or musing on things that may never be. But lately these visions have been so much more vivid. Whole nightmares of doomed worlds, and alien gods and demons... flashing behind my eyes in an instant like another life I might have lived.

(Marcus, to himself)

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I have felt it already, lost in the darkness, across time. Do you dream then too? Is it only us?

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I suspect that you have seen it too, though I doubt that you see it the same as I do. Your dreams, that you have told me about - do you have them still? Have you seen what I speak of in them? The end - the hollow world, the land in the sky, all of it floating in the void?

(Hathor, to Marcus)

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wHaT iS iT tHaT dReAmS iN a DaRk CoRnEr Of My WoRlD?

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i SeE yOu ThErE iN a ReAlM oF yOuR oWn DrEaMiNg

(a loose W'rkncacnter, to Marcus)

Man, I thought I had better quotes illustrating this... but yeah. Basically, I interpret dreams to be what individuals of insufficiently powerful mental capacities see when they are Outside (i.e. having stepped beyond the bounds of spacetime into the timeless, nonspatial informational realm which defines spacetime as we know it). Individuals of slightly greater mental power see all possibly realities sort of juxtaposed on top of each other and have assorted types of "WTF" responses (either going crazy wild or crazy in denial, making them either W'rkncacnter or Jjaro).

But us mere humans have what are, to us, an incomprehensible mish-mash of every possible perception at once, and our subconscious minds conveniently ignore that nonsense, so we effectively wind up with no "true" perception at all for the duration of the experience, floating in a world of our own imagining, made real as only those possible perceptions which agree with our own imagination are let through to us - though the dream can be influenced by other intelligences that exist Outside and can comprehend and influence it a little more easily than we can. In this way the Jjaro (or other forces) can speak to us in our dreams, at least in those dreams we find ourselves in

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           So, what was your conclusion? *NM*Frungi 11/30/06 3:57 p.m.
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                                                                                                                                   Re: so where do you get hyper-time?Forrest of B.org 12/18/06 8:20 a.m.
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                                                                                                                                               Re: whoops... no... that is not what I meant.Forrest of B.org 12/18/06 1:58 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                     right, yeah, that is the identity problemMrHen 12/18/06 4:41 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                           Re: right, yeah, that is the identity problemForrest of B.org 12/18/06 9:55 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                 ohhh...MrHen 12/19/06 5:44 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: ohhh...Forrest of B.org 12/19/06 9:20 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                             back to the math ;)MrHen 12/19/06 11:07 a.m.
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                                                                                                                                                                                         wait, so my model is too... real? ;)MrHen 12/22/06 1:57 p.m.
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                                                                                                     Re: hehe, Infinitytreellama 12/15/06 4:12 p.m.
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                                                                                                                       So... do I have this right?MrHen 12/16/06 6:35 a.m.
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                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?McNutcase 12/15/06 11:09 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/15/06 1:34 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/15/06 1:39 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?ukimalefu 12/15/06 6:29 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?McNutcase 12/15/06 10:23 p.m.
                                                                       awesome, thanks! *NM*MrHen 12/16/06 6:49 a.m.
                                                           Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/16/06 5:51 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?kyjel 12/16/06 7:08 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/18/06 8:36 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Frungi 12/18/06 9:48 p.m.
                                                                                   Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/22/06 10:00 a.m.
                                                                                         Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/22/06 10:19 a.m.
                                                                                         what he saidMrHen 12/22/06 12:38 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/18/06 10:23 p.m.
                                                                 *sigh*MrHen 12/17/06 5:08 a.m.
                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?Frungi 12/11/06 3:35 p.m.
                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/12/06 12:23 p.m.
                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/13/06 7:56 a.m.
                                   Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/13/06 8:32 a.m.
                                         another example (albeit overused)MrHen 12/13/06 8:57 a.m.
     Re: The Garden of Forking Paths *LINK*irons 2/23/18 1:11 a.m.
           LOKE *NM*W'rkncacnter 2/23/18 4:06 p.m.
                 Re: LOKE *NM* *LINK*irons 2/23/18 4:14 p.m.
                       LOKE *NM* *NM* *NM* *NM* *NM* *LINK*W'rkncacnter 2/23/18 11:09 p.m.
                             Re: LOKE *NM* *LINK*irons 2/24/18 3:31 a.m.

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