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