Hello. C J here. This is my third post for today about the real life magic, spirituality and religion that inspired me to make the Astral setting. The third key point that I learned while researching these three subjects was that everyone agrees dreams are important. Dreams convey messages, grant insight into the future and are often shared with others, but only if they check with one another after they wake up.
One subject kept coming up over and over though. Lucid dreaming. This is the ability to be fully awake in a dream, change its subject matter and remain in it for as long as you want. Dreams often feel longer than the amount of time we spend asleep. Wherever it is that we go, where most animals do as well, when we sleep time works differently there.
I’ve hunted down whatever scraps and pieces of knowledge there are about this discipline and it claims that it is easy to learn. It isn’t. The Astral setting is supposed to feel dream like and lucid dreaming exists there as well. It will come up heavily in some of the novels in Arc Five or Arc Six and then continue on from that. Then how do you learn? I’m still working on that one.
Lucid dreaming exists though. It’s in some of my science training that it’s been studied so thoroughly that no one is doing more studies on it. It exists. That’s pretty much all we know. I’ve watched Discovery Channel specials about it before. Then why isn’t it easier to do? No idea. I’m hoping that the card game Regency and the stories Regency shares with the novels will help to figure that out. If you can’t teach it through a textbook then teach it through a novel. That’s what I know so far.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. Walking down the streets of Haven is not always as safe as the city would like people to think. Yes, they have curbed the banditry that plagues the Southern half of the Coastal Road. The Desert Princes whose cities dot the Southern coast of the Southern Continent if anything make the problem worse for themselves with their constant rivalries and politics. So no, a traveller in Haven or in the River Lands is unlikely to meet a bandit or other criminal sort. But then there’s the walking dead to consider. Many of the basements, catacombs and landmarks of Haven have old foundations from before the city had its current name. In ages long past it was one of two competing capitols for the Desert Empire, both of which unified under the first Sand King of the Gold Dynasty, the God-Lion. It was never his place of residence and both the other capitol and the rest of the Desert Empire are long since buried under the dunes. Well, people like to assume they’re buried. People wo...
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