tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post2768023083897230013..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: What if it was all a dream?pjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-74433060828714950722018-01-26T03:04:15.450-08:002018-01-26T03:04:15.450-08:00"What happens at the table when the giant wak..."What happens at the table when the giant wakes?"<br />He goes get pizza and laugh at the silliness of his dream.G. B. Verashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321019711309446662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-1664412726540706942018-01-25T13:53:58.805-08:002018-01-25T13:53:58.805-08:00At the risk of belaboring the obvious: the glossed...At the risk of belaboring the obvious: the glossed-over slips and breaks in continuity, the unusual flow of time, the mix of the portentous and the inane that characterize a dream also sound a lot like the typical D&D play experience. In which case is the giant at the table? And what happens at the table when the giant wakes?Solid Filamenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18180429668034788432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-15236937025100615472018-01-25T13:47:47.462-08:002018-01-25T13:47:47.462-08:00No, useful, handy for when your wir-healers wander...No, useful, handy for when your wir-healers wander through the brain of some dreaming titan and have a chat with its factions of ideologues, handy to have an entire nation that believes this and acts accordingly even though your characters have empirical knowledge to the contrary, excellent<br />Solid Filamenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18180429668034788432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-27631508420089122002018-01-25T06:11:51.542-08:002018-01-25T06:11:51.542-08:00Perhaps we already woke up, or woke up a while ago...Perhaps we already woke up, or woke up a while ago and are drowsing again and that which was once so clear is becoming trippy and laden with portent. Individuals who made sense in their concrete and contradictory individuality become Jungian caricatures. <br /><br />This explains a lot.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-4625644603686514162018-01-25T03:29:32.453-08:002018-01-25T03:29:32.453-08:00Another faction, the Fatalists... "What if we...Another faction, the Fatalists... "What if we are in a thought instead of a dreaming? The role of everyone is already predefined in this thought being weaved by the dreaming demiurge."G. B. Verashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321019711309446662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-87167005760748417772018-01-25T00:58:43.945-08:002018-01-25T00:58:43.945-08:00Kinda reminds me of Rêve du dragon, except that th...Kinda reminds me of Rêve du dragon, except that there is more than one dreamer there as the dragons dream the world collectively. Yeah, that's a big difference.Ghasthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07401924351959645260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-24716669492238253152018-01-24T17:42:15.346-08:002018-01-24T17:42:15.346-08:00>By examining the dream, could you work to unde...>By examining the dream, could you work to understand the Real?<br />If to use a personal example, yes - nightmares taught me about my fears the things I didn't suspect before. Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-16198818339462307682018-01-24T16:48:15.392-08:002018-01-24T16:48:15.392-08:00This whole setup - where the giant who has been dr...This whole setup - where the giant who has been dreaming the whole universe finally wakes up, and everything that we thought of as 'real' gets reconfigured as component parts of a higher reality, retaining its specificity while having its meaning and value enhanced to cosmic levels - is basically what happens in plates 94-9 of William Blake's 'Jerusalem'. He also does many different versions of the 'cosmic dreamer wandering within his own dream' concept, as both Albion (the giant) and the embodied personifications of his fragmented personality traits and mental faculties end up wandering around his dream-world (i.e. our reality), within which they variously manifest as godlike beings and apparently ordinary people. (Enitharmon, who from our perspective is effectively the goddess of space, sometimes manifests as a ragged madwoman wandering the streets of great cities. That bit has always stuck with me.) <br /><br />One day I will do a proper post on adapting Blake's cosmology to D&D. It has Druid Spectres and everything!Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.com