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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 1606160" data-attributes="member: 2550">Speaking of Far Realms (and keeping in mind it's 1:53 in the morning, so I am in the perfect mindset for this), let me explain why it breaks your brain:It doesn't break your brain.  It fixes it.Comprehending the Far Realms completely is a total paradigm shift from what humanity is normally used to.  It requires the ability to deal with the fact that that 'the present' actually extends a good four or five seconds in to the past and future simultaneously, and that there are in fact six directions that humans normally don't work with.  As you enter this broader metaspace that all creation rests in, your brain is torn between two paradigms - the limited paradigm of your home reality, and the limitless paradigm of the All.If you fail the will save, your mind does not successfully cling to its delusions about the nature of reality and instead is forced to accept what Is - that reality is boundless, governed by rules that you never before imagined.  the All grants this knowledge to you.People don't take this knowledge well.  Generally, they kind of freak out - though their world retains value in their minds, they are forced to accept that their usual definitions of 'meaning' are really quite subjective.  Even when they adapt, they react to things as Far Realms logic - REAL world logic - dictates, as opposed to reacting to things within the limited paradigm of their home reality.  As a result, they appear not only sort of mad, not just KIND of mad, but so utterly disjoint with reality as to be irretrievably damaged.  In fact, they are utterly IN SYNC with reality, and if left to their own devices in the Far Realm, would be quite capable of reacting to its events in a logical manner - though they still might get eaten by something better at it than they are and bigger than them.</blockquote>

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