reading this made everything click
i've been trying to figure out why i can't seem to "turn off" my visualization anymore
it's because i accidentally opened high bandwidth channels and don't know how to close them
oh my god
THAT'S what happened to me
i accidentally opened myself to high bandwidth (through intensive dream practice) and then couldn't close it again
i need to learn to CLOSE THE BANDWIDTH
not just "ground" or "shield" but literally reduce the bandwidth capacity
okay so i've been in the shared dreaming, MDD, tulpamancy, and shifting communities for like a year now and i finally figured out what they all have in common
it's about BANDWIDTH
shared dreaming: high bandwidth, but only while asleeplucid dreaming: medium-high bandwidth, requires practicereality shifting: high bandwidth, difficult to achievemaladaptive daydreaming: LOW bandwidth, but constant/always ontulpamancy: medium bandwidth, sustainedastral projection: variable bandwidthchaos magic: deliberate bandwidth manipulation
we're all trying to access the same space (dream realms, imaginal realm, astral, whatever) through different methods with different bandwidth capacities