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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4438386" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>I liked the article. I especially love the tentacled moon with eyes. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why? Just because it might be fun counter-nit-picking your post? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Doesn't the dead star appear to be a black whole? You might "see" him when he is sucking in gas from nearby stars. (Of course, I am not sure if any pseudo-medieval astrologist would call a quasar a dead star...)</p><p>Or the star died "recently" - someone wrote down how a star glowed very brightly for some time, until he suddenly disappeared. (Star went nova and then turned neutron star or black whole - effectively invisible now)</p><p></p><p>And the stars might still be blinking at you - and that's the creepy thing - how did they know that they should blink at you _now_, when the light travels decades or even millenia? Maybe Astralogists are correct when they believe the stars allow them to see the future...</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>One idea I recently had connects the Far Realm and Psionics at once. I thought about how the Feywild and Shadowfell are basically physical reflections of the real world. But what about the "mental reflection" - maybe call it the mindscape or the dreamscape. </p><p></p><p>A world that doesn't really make sense (because what dream does?) entirely, but is shaped by our minds (or does it shape our minds?). The source of psionic powers. It is the world where indeed, if we look up to the moon, the moon looks back from one of his many eyes. Where the geometry is warped (and not just to 5 x 5 square fireballs <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ), so we leave our house and are suddenly in the middle of our school or office (possibly naked), or teeth are suddenly falling out (and we know _this_ time, it's not just a stupid nightmare!)</p><p>And the dark truth about this world? The "Dreamscape" are the Far Realms. Mind Flayers? Aboleths? They existed because someone thought of them (or do we think of them because they always existed there?)</p><p></p><p>And the spots in the material world that are presumed to allow us entering the Far Realms, they are a little like that office in "Being John Malkovich" (where you could go through a tunnel to enter the mind and take control of John Malkovich!). </p><p></p><p>And if you can enter a physical place to get through a purely mental place, what does this tell us? </p><p>Maybe there is an even more troublesome truth - the real world is just as unreal as the Far Realms or the DreamScape. Or again, the other way around - the things of our dreams and nightmare are just as real as the material world!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4438386, member: 710"] I liked the article. I especially love the tentacled moon with eyes. ;) Why? Just because it might be fun counter-nit-picking your post? ;) Doesn't the dead star appear to be a black whole? You might "see" him when he is sucking in gas from nearby stars. (Of course, I am not sure if any pseudo-medieval astrologist would call a quasar a dead star...) Or the star died "recently" - someone wrote down how a star glowed very brightly for some time, until he suddenly disappeared. (Star went nova and then turned neutron star or black whole - effectively invisible now) And the stars might still be blinking at you - and that's the creepy thing - how did they know that they should blink at you _now_, when the light travels decades or even millenia? Maybe Astralogists are correct when they believe the stars allow them to see the future... --- One idea I recently had connects the Far Realm and Psionics at once. I thought about how the Feywild and Shadowfell are basically physical reflections of the real world. But what about the "mental reflection" - maybe call it the mindscape or the dreamscape. A world that doesn't really make sense (because what dream does?) entirely, but is shaped by our minds (or does it shape our minds?). The source of psionic powers. It is the world where indeed, if we look up to the moon, the moon looks back from one of his many eyes. Where the geometry is warped (and not just to 5 x 5 square fireballs ;) ), so we leave our house and are suddenly in the middle of our school or office (possibly naked), or teeth are suddenly falling out (and we know _this_ time, it's not just a stupid nightmare!) And the dark truth about this world? The "Dreamscape" are the Far Realms. Mind Flayers? Aboleths? They existed because someone thought of them (or do we think of them because they always existed there?) And the spots in the material world that are presumed to allow us entering the Far Realms, they are a little like that office in "Being John Malkovich" (where you could go through a tunnel to enter the mind and take control of John Malkovich!). And if you can enter a physical place to get through a purely mental place, what does this tell us? Maybe there is an even more troublesome truth - the real world is just as unreal as the Far Realms or the DreamScape. Or again, the other way around - the things of our dreams and nightmare are just as real as the material world! [/QUOTE]
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