Dream hoping sciences? · 9:06am Mar 22nd, 2022
Post loop-> back to story
“Hmm.” Star Swirl set aside his pen and looked at the spell as Astral had written it. He nickered, flicked his tail, and said, “Is this the best you can do? It’s rather… fuzzy.”
Well, duh... oneiroturgy?
She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, then said levelly, “Look. Mr. Bearded. Dream magic isn’t a hard science, with equations and laws and whatever. This isn’t even a soft science, with categories or… I don’t know. This is an art. And I don’t mean ‘art’ in some snooty self-important way. I mean ‘art’ like there’s no instruction manual. There’s no one way to paint a sunset, right? Hay, there’s no one way to make paint. It’s different for everyone and you need to learn your way for yourself. If you keep looking for a step-by-step, hard and fast process, I can’t help you with this. It doesn’t work like that.”
Yeah, this is where I started trying to figure it out for myself... old habits, and a train of thought I'd have never tried without prompt!
“When the magic is behaving, that’s certainly true,” said Star Swirl. All traces of grumpiness were gone from his voice. “And it makes sense, does it not? Each dream, no matter how temporary, is a whole world to itself, in a manner of speaking. Yes, thinking of dreams as separate universes is, at the very least, a good starting point.”
...and here, I realized that your line of logic was remarkably close to my own. Put a stop to my thoughts until I heard the professor out as it may be...
“Did you know,” Starlight said, apropos of nothing, “that moving the mirror itself with magic is actually pretty tricky?”
Duh? Your not moving just one... and not through the 3-dimentional space you think you might be.
“Well, we’ve got the mirror and a writeup of how it works.” Starlight held up a book that looked heavier than a cinder block. “I guess we just start reading this?”
Tuesday...
“In pure paradigm space,” Astral said, so promptly she even surprised herself. “Or whatever it’s called. Dreams don’t have a thing to do with physicality, just ideas.”
...and this is the major issue. Of course, a little magic on top of the science resolves everything.
Okay, so the collective unconscious isn't really a pocket dimension so much as it is a negative dimension resulting from (and thus created from) the bonds and links between minds superliminally (at a much deeper point than the subconscious). As such, dream magic begins with setting an emulation of an interface with fluid interfacing abilities. This lets you control your own dreams (if made more rigid, teaching becomes harder, but for the self taught portion, it increases efficiency while limiting further evolution). By extending the fluidity of the interface (which permits conscious observation) and then building a bridge (portal/etc.), separate minds can be linked in the same way as separate dimensions might be for travel. The interface must be fluid in its rules as each mind works with its own unique laws/physics and failure to accommodate will break the lucid part of the dream, defeating the purpose really. Perception is important, and no two individuals thing or dream the same way. Even if you do remain lucid with a bad/incompatible interface, you'd end up trapped in darkness. Also of note, the more minds your linking to at once, the more adaptable the interface has to be.
I do apologize if some of my terminology is difficult, but expressing this thought is hard as is.
