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[Video] - Middle of the night...

[ Sorry, everyone for this early wake up call, but Sheena's just had another nightmare, and is reacting without thinking.

And hitting the "video" button without realizing, revealing her shaken and disheveled state. ]

Okay. Just what the hell is going on with these dreams?!

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That's putting it mildly.

[ Sheena doubts she'll be able to go back to sleep. She can still feel the pain of Al'amar being taken by a Venus People Trap plant. ]

If you don't mind me asking: how bad was yours?

More disturbing than bad...I'm going to do some research in the Library. See if I can find anything on it.

So, nothing painful? Nothing that feels "real"--like it's your own memory?

[ She can still feel that pain, and probably will for a while. ]

The Library? Okay. I might go there later, but if you don't see me, my dreams are about someone named Al'amar, and this one involved a plant that bled when cut.

[ Bad and disturbing. Isn't Sheena lucky? ]

It's not the first time I've lived someone else's memories.

[And some had definitely been worse than what she had experienced. The pain and trauma quickly faded when she realized it wasn't her own and didn't have the person nearby to keep it going. Valdis was a bit more concerned about the Death Plane and its involvement.]

A plant that bled?

It isn't? It's a first for me, and I really don't like it. I thought seeing someone's personal memories was bad enough, but this goes beyond that.

[ Sheena, however, can't be like that. As someone in another place long ago said, she wears her emotions where all can see. So, if someone is suffering, she feels it. And in this case, she's feeling it precisely--and remembering. ]

Yeah, it was all vines, and Al'amar cut it, thinking it would be a normal plant. It was hot, so she was probably looking for water, but instead...it bled. Like a person.

Then it grabbed her and started dragging her towards it.

[That did sound disturbing]

I'm sorry you had to experience that...wherever they are, I hope we can find them.

[ But probably not as disturbing as what Sheena's going to ask. ]

Is it possible that these aren't memories? But we're seeing things as they happen?

I'm not capable of dreaming...and the shared nature of these visions make me think this is as it is happening.

[ Not capable of dreaming? Now that's something Sheena hadn't expected. ]

It's not the shared nature of the dreams that made me think that--but the fact that we could feel what was happening.
The pain, the fear--all of it.

I'm just concerned about what if the dreams go further and no more pain is felt.

[ If the person dies, do they die? ]

As I said, this isn't the first time I've lived memories like that. It's painful, it's easy to get lost, but I've never died or anything.

[Not that she'd ever experimented enough to find out if the memory of death would actually kill her.]

This kind of connection...it's possible to initiate, but I've never done it from a distance, the Dreaming is a on a whole other level.

Did you do it back in Keeliai?

And can you really say this is the same as a person's memories, since we both feel they're their actual experiences?

[ Do try that experiment please. ]

So, do you think they're contacting the Dreaming somehow, and the Dreaming is cutting them off? Or the other way around?

I did it a few times in Keeliai, sometimes to converse with the essence directly, once or twice to see memories. It's a complex connection, not without risk...I don't think attempting it at a distance would be wise.

[The last thing she needed was to lose her consciousness somewhere it couldn't be found.]

I wish I knew the answer to that, Sheena. The planes are complex and messing with them is dangerous.

[Part of the reason she avoided the tower.]

[ She can't see it, but Sheena is running a hand over her face before looking out a window for several long moments. ]

Is it complex for us because we're not of this world? I mean, the Dreaming brought us here, so it would stand to reason that those born here would have an easier time making those connections.

[ And following almost immediately. ]

And probably the only way to find out is to "mess with the planes" and find out. So there goes that idea.

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[It was entirely possible that the population knew the Dreaming better than they did, even if their connection wasn't the same, it didn't mean they didn't have one.]

There are three planes on my world. Life, Death, and Soul. There are three planes here. Life, Death and Dreaming, but I can still access the Soul plane. I imagine it isn't unlike how you can summon those spirits here, Konryu seems to be a convergence of worlds.

[If that were true, perhaps the Death plane hadn't been involved at all...but she still wasn't convinced.]

If you are curious about the plane, those in the Aisling Tower seem more inclined to play with such things.

[ Then again, it's also entirely possible that they had no clue about it, or as the case on her world, only a small percentage knew the truth about something so vital. The rest just taking it for granted. ]

So is Dreaming the same thing as Soul? They both come from your innermost being.

[ An unseen nod. ]

It's probably because I came from a different place where my powers had been cut off that I noticed the connection to my Summons almost immediately when they returned. Which--like the Dreaming and the Soul--are a part of our innermost selves.

Maybe I should go to the Tower and ask them about this.

[ Though "playing" is out of the question. There may be problems she can't fix. ]

On my world, dreams originate in the soul, so perhaps they have similarities, but the Soul plane is more passive than what I've observed the Dreaming to be like.

[And with so many different worlds, it was impossible to judge how it would appear to to others]

The Tower is a place to start at least.

Yeah, it does like to take action every now and then, doesn't it?

[ Hard to tell in text, but that's something Sheena isn't really too happy about. Which brings her to her next question. ]

Yeah, I guess it is. But you said they like "playing" with it. They're not going to have me go into it, are they?

Technically they 'experiment', and no, I don't think they are that stupid.

How do they experiment with it? [ She shakes her head. ] Sorry for all the questions. This is something I think I should be prepared for.

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