NO
NO NO NO
i ALSO had a childhood paracosm of a dream city
i thought it was just my imagination
are you telling me multiple people have INDEPENDENTLY accessed the same place through childhood daydreaming???
how is this possible
how is this POSSIBLE
i need to sit down
i'm one of the original Ethel researchers
this is not the first time this has happened
we've had multiple people report that they had dreams/paracosms of Ethel before discovering the shared dreaming community
current working theory: Ethel exists as a stable realm and can be accessed through multiple methods
- traditional shared dreaming (sleep)
- lucid dreaming (practiced)
- spontaneous dreams (common)
- daydreaming / paracosm work (rare but possible)
your childhood paracosm was probably a low-bandwidth connection to actual Ethel
when you started doing shared dreaming properly, you got a high-bandwidth connection and recognized it as the same place
weird question for the shared dreaming community
i've had a paracosm of a dream city since i was a kid. very detailed, consistent geography, culture, aesthetics. i thought i made it up.
then i discovered the shared dreaming community and heard about Ethel
and. it's the same city.
not exactly. some differences. but the CORE is the same. the statue, the architecture style, the weird church thing.
so. did i discover Ethel through MDD before i discovered shared dreaming?
or did i create a paracosm that happens to resemble Ethel because we're both drawing from the same archetypal imagery?
or is Ethel. like. actually my paracosm that somehow became shared?
i don't know how to process this