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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizWrm" data-source="post: 1113072" data-attributes="member: 13568">As far as meditation goes, I'd say he doesn't feel there's anything extremely out-of-the-ordinary in the fact that he gets "flashbacks," because that's what meditation is supposed to do - it's a tool for introspection and reflection, right? He probably brushes some of it off to stress, particularly the times when he sees things that he's sure are real - like when he "knew" that the gun-shop was being robbed again, he probably figured it was just a combination of all the trauma associated with that shop and with those people, combined with the normal reflective effects of meditation. The dreams, Todd's not so sure about. Todd must have some vaguely-defined explanation for himself about how he suddenly woke up several miles away; he's probably telling himself, "sleepwalking....it must have been sleepwalking....yeah, must have been that," a lot.He's not actively looking for any supernatural explanation - he's a 'normal guy,' after all, and he's had a couple bad experiences and probably some stress. Todd probably wants to chalk it up to that, but with the extreme 'success' of the meditation,  I could see him furtively buying a book from a local bookstore on Buddhist monks and/or Eastern meditation techniques, just to see if his reaction to it has been normal; none of the other 'inmates,' said anything about strangely realistic 'flashbacks.' He's possibly enrolled himself in a meditation class (maybe taught by an ex-Buddhist monk? I had an RL teacher like that once) and asked the teacher for special advice or some-such.Basically, Todd is trying desperately to find a normal explanation for everything. If there's anything more, let me know.I'll get some time to write up his stats later today (my time), which means hopefully we'll be able to start in less than 24 hours or so.</blockquote>

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