Originally Posted by
Bad Wolf
For everyone who doesn't believe Namcosis' story, that's up to you. It's like he said, he has no way of proving it to you unless you initiate a shared dream with him and he uses it to instantly transmit all his memories of the even to you (I'm sure a shared dream would enable advanced forms of telepathy like that). But I'd just like to remind all of you not to flat out disbelieve the story, but just to remain skeptical until you can logically decide whether or not he's telling the truth. And by skeptical I don't mean think he must be lying, but rather to think that he might be telling the truth, and at the same time think he might be lying. After all, if people thought that the explorers who said the world was round were lying, then the world wouldn't be the way it is right now, would it? But they didn't call them liers, they sent out more explorers to confirm it and find out more about the far away lands, and eventually even began colonizing them. Now we are the explorers, and we therefore have to remain open to what we and others find out and experience. Namcosis is saying he stumbled upon something that possibly no one else has ever experience before, so now we have to just have trust that it's there try to reach that place ourselves. Who knows, some day people may be learning about us, and how we learned so many things about dreams and what they are capable of.
Well, I guess I'll leave it at that for now. I'd appreciate any comments on it.
Edit: Just out of curiosity, if you could create one of those distortions at will and control where it would send you and the length of time you'd be stuck there once and only once, where would you go? Would you go to a fantasy world created by your mind (I have at least one tucked away in there), or would you go to one created by someone else, such as one in a book or something? Or would travel back in time to witness some great historical event, or even a week forward in time to see next weeks lottery numbers? That last idea seems like a waste to me, but it'd definitely be accurate. I personally would either pick Middle Earth from The Lord of the Rings or one of my fantasy worlds, but that's just me.