Naming a power system!!

[tecnowraith]

I need help! I am trying to create a story where people have the ability to warp or bend reality and I a need name for this power. It is similar the Matrix or Dark City. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

 

[der_kluge]

solipsism

1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

 

[Steverooo]

I need help! I am trying to create a story where people have the ability to warp or bend reality and I a need name for this power. It is similar the Matrix or Dark City. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Didn't Dark City call it "Shaping"?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I believe I read something like this (maybe not the exact word) once in a Science Fiction book, but I can`t remember which book - (or maybe it came from Dark City (german version)?).
"to weiten" (spoken like wide, just with a t instead of a d.).
"He is an experienced weitener. Weitening is difficult to master for most, but he was able to weiten bullets to dodge them in 2nd grade."

"to moden" (from modify, or mode)

Other ideas (created from german words, mostly with a meaning similar to change, bend, or warp) :
"to biegen" (spoken: beegen, with a hard g, like in ground). )
"to aender" (from: ändern; change)
"to zer" (from: zerren) or "to zerren"

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Altalazar]

Shooting Star Trek: The Next Generation often required the actors to "act" toward a blank, green screen which would later have various effects added in. Brent Spiner, who played Data, coined a phrase (or inspired it) that they all eventually ended up using to describe this particular method of acting:

"Spining" pronounced "Spine-Ing" after Brent Spiner.

 

[Moxie]

In Dark City it is called "tuning."

I like the term "weaving" or "spinning" if bringing something into existence, "bending" if altering it.

 

[tecnowraith]

Didn't Dark City call it "Shaping"?

Either it was Tunig or Quening or something like that.

 

[tecnowraith]

Wow! This was quick.. Some good ones to. I do not mind using words from different laungages so german, latin, spanish even french, is already for me. Just looking a name that has not been used before.

Thanks for the reply though guys... Keep them coming.

 

[Len]

In Le Guin's "Lathe of Heaven" the main character's dreams can alter reality, and it's called "effective dreaming".

 

[Marius Delphus]

shifting
molding
painting
sculpting
rendering
reweaving
exoshaping
transducing
refabricating
world-bending
reality-warping
embroidering the fabric
transcending the mundane