[D40]

[espigeon]

Hm, weird question, but: does the 'collective unconscious' sound familiar to anyone? When you were in your original reality did you ever dream about places and events you weren't there for? Especially about being in space and probably speaking in Russian or English, if you've got equivalent languages and people have actually been in space I mean.

How about shared dreams? Probably not super common, any of these, maybe once a month? Thanks.

...and, okay. If you could choose somewhere to go for the next stop, what would it be like? I'm unsurprisingly kinda into the idea of a talking bird world. With treehouses. Didn't I hear the Carnival went to one years ago? Anyone been there who can crush my dreams now and say it was terrible?

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[chronosynthesis]

That is about right. [At least, as closely equivocal as it can get for other people, who have vastly different development cycles. Tyrians sure are still trying to wrap their heads around the Sylvari sometimes.]

Do you know what it is they are trying to take from your world? [A precious resource? But it seems odd for so many to pursue it in that case.]

[espigeon]

Well, that saves time, I'm sure! Champions... uh... hm. Senior champions can end up as sort of mini-collectives, one mind in many bodies, but from what I've heard if you do that in a certain way some of the individual parts of you start getting conscious themselves. But I don't know if those would be new people or what. I came here right after hearing about it.

One of the dreams everyone has is about what people interpret as either someone planting seeds or burying treasure, so there's a sort of theory that something came and put something in the planet a really long time ago? Before life was advanced enough to support a proper consciousness. But like, that's a theory.

[chronosynthesis]

One mind in many... [That there is a little harder to fathom. Splitting his consciousness between multiple physical presences seems, well, dangerous to the mind.]

So no one knows what precisely resides in your world, but life outside of it does? [That's kind of strange, unless they're also going on rumor about something special in Julien's planet.]

[espigeon]

I'm already one in two part of the time, but I'm not good at maintaining one in three. It gets kind of overwhelming, especially when I move apart. You end up having to think different things with different parts of you.

No idea, unfortunately. We've had a lot of people thrashing over a lot of theories, honestly a lot of it goes over my head. Could be that whatever it is, since we've evolved around it we just don't notice it. Could be that it's why there's such an active collective in the first place, we don't know.