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. I read a lot of cookbooks. This is done mostly for fun. I’m currently reading a short but really interesting book about traditional Chinese cooking. The book was written by an Indian author who has clearly researched Chinese food very well but some of the translations of recipes or concepts get a bit strange. I’m currently done the soups and starters section and am onto the section labelled ‘food that is saucy.’ Cool? Is it also savvy? There’s a surprisingly large amount of ketchup in the recipes. No I don’t think I want a recipe for hot and sour soup that is thickened ketchup water with vinegar and a bit of cabbage. No I also don’t want to take a slice of white wonderbread, roll it into a tube, stuff it with canned corn, deep fry it and then top it with sesame seeds. What in God’s name do they eat in China? And why is it specifically an image of white wonderbread? China? Are you okay? I managed to take out the vinegar, water and corn starch that makes up most of the h...
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