Thread: Shared Dreaming Debate

Thanks guys. Maybe it looks like we've just been talking at each other, and I suppose there's always an element of vain farce in such discussions. But I think I've learned a few things of importance to myself. Implications of things I already knew, but hadn't made the connections.

Originally Posted by Mylynes

I would agree with you that mass induced nightmares, especially ones that actually leave a major impact on its victims, would normally be impossible. The only way I see such things as being possible is through conscious manipulation of perceived flow of time. This would be essential both to attaining such abilities in the first place, and making the nightmares much more memorable. A regular mass induced nightmare could merely be shrugged off by most people. But with TD taken to the extremes, if all of those nightmares were to fill a single rem period with a near-eternity, then peoples minds could be completely warped, huge chunks of memory completely lost, could be driven utterly insane overnight. So instead of mass numbers of ppl simply waking up from a bad dream, they are warped, changed, and come back dangerously psychotic. The chaos that could follow after such an event would be much more intense than just having a bunch of people wake up from a bad dream.

People could go to a literal hell for eons, by the time they are released they could even potentially believe that they are demons themselves returning to earth on a mission to carry out the apocalypse or something.

Just something to think about. Row row row your boat.

That's a cool idea for a novel.