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've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...
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