The journal just acts as summary for the parent thread because that is what journal does. It also acts as a way to clear doubts on certain things that should be known but have been omitted from the parent thread. Any action that I do will be in this thread and the summary can be found in the journal.
Can the journal be a personalized behind the screens to keep it all together?
In behind the scenes, it is said you wanted to move me at the end of the queue. I think that is possibly the best option because I do not want to take too much of your time. My post are long anyway so probably it should be dealt with last.
Day 3 of mental fusion now is it?
Time sure flies by fast.
Conflicting thoughts about another world?
How does Lelach explain my existence and the foreign memory then?
Insanity might be a good explanation though I thought jokingly.
Then I calm her down that this is maybe just a dream or something unexplainable for now.
I would not want to read Morani mind if she does not agree.
I just thought that keeping Morani's mind frequency at hand can be good for future reference but if I have to mind read him to get his mental frequency then probably I have to create a new skill to note mind frequency by using mental image of the person.
Not that I know how to at the moment but I think I can do it so I will keep it in mind.
What do I get from reading the body expression of Morani?
Very happy and maybe some anxiety as what to come I guess?
As long as I can remember I have done lucid dreaming as a human but I have to apologize if sprite are not meant to do this. I do not know that I am a sprite when I attempted it.
I will ask Lelach to teach me the basic law of the sprite because if I did not know about it then how can I abide to it.
In my past life I am a human.
So do Lelach think I am wicked or dangerous?
She could read all my thought so she could decide what is wicked and dangerous about human right?
Some people are good, some are bad, some are in the middle and there are plenty of variation out there.
That is why there is the need to know as much information as possible to choose who you dealt with.
How old is an average sprite or how long is the sprite life span?
So relaxing my mind would not work to detect frequency of inanimate object.
Then lets try focusing my mind on several things (one be one) such as fabric, clothes, thread and food; alternating to the other after I feel some pattern.
I would not want to read the mind of the fabric of course.
Lelach must misinterpreted what I mean by frequency as mental frequency.
The frequency that I meant is more of a pattern or signature of things that one can feel when using one senses.
What I wanted to do is feel with all my senses (vision, smell, touch, vibration of material and maybe taste) if there are pattern I could come up with so I can search for it better.
What I have done is just the usual stuff so she should not worry too much about it.
What a complicated system for sleeping.
This means that we have to make a system to rest well.
Can we replace the consciousness time of the baby by meditation to rest the mind?
Can we can also make a simultaneous rest for both body?
You cannot split what the personalities are doing; they are too closely united for that.
So that just leave us with cooperating together to do multitasking things.
How are we doing in trying to do multitasking things such as writing with both hands?
At anytime Lelach feel that she wants to seek help from others about the situation then I will let her do so.
I heard that sprite like shiny things. Is this true?
Do Lelach perhaps seen a glass marble before?
Lelach's explanation for these memories are the same as yours: that they must be real, and that she must be insane because they cannot be real. There is this part that thinks that somehow the mind/machine interface on the total immersion virtual reality system has gone awry, dumping a second personality into your head and causing you to believe that you've lived twenty-some years as a female sprite and are now having your first child. There is another part of you that thinks that some demon is trying to drive you insane with these ideas about "total immersion virtual reality" and "mind machine interface" and this notion that she was a human for several decades (?) living in a world which obviously cannot exist, in which electricity which is something like lightning powers lights and sound systems and telephones and televisions, and gasoline and other liquids are burned not only to make light and fire but to drive carriages called cars. Nothing about her memories make sense, because there are two incompatible memory sets blurred together. She knows that when she was about five she started kindergarten and clearly remembers her kindergarten teacher; she also knows that when she was five she hung out at the pond near the school so she and the other girls could play stunt flying games with the boys when they finished for the day. She knows that she was a boy, and that she was a girl; that she has been flying all her life and has never flown. With some horror she knows all the girls you ever dated and exactly how you treated them, from your first kiss to your last--well, I won't presume to know anything about your sex life, but she does; she also knows about how Rani is the only boy she ever kissed, the man she married at her parents' arrangement, and her husband and only lover for life.
So yes, she thinks she is crazy; and probably you do, too, since there really is only the one mind now, and it's very confused.
Your assessment of the feelings of a newly expectant father are accurate. He's also worried that he has to take care of you, his pregnant wife.
Lelach is pleased to realize that she never killed any sprites, but it doesn't help that the human memories don't include ever having seen a sprite. (I'm assuming that you never killed anyone--e.g., as a member of the armed forces. That would upset her, and she would know it if it were so.)
Sprites live to human lifespans, but don't often die young, thus many of them are eighty and ninety. They are also, well, more spritely at older ages, and remain fertile into their sixties, but they generally have one child per decade, starting in their early twenties.
O.K., I'm still trying to grasp this concept of the frequency of an object. Are you trying to detect/determine the chemical composition of the target object, e.g., this is cotton, this is wood, this is a blend of iron and copper? Are you looking for some sort of animistic spirit, that a tree would have a tree spirit and so wood from the tree would retain something of that spirit?
You collectively remember seeing everything either of you ever saw. When you think of a glass marble, the memory is hers as well. She is pretty certain such things do not exist in the world that she would have called real, but they do exist in that other world that is real that she thinks is the one that is new (but isn't, because she was a human longer than she was a sprite, I'm guessing). Some sprites do like shiny objects, but most aren't really all that different from people.
--M. J. Young
She might see that I am in the twenties.
I have never dated or lip-kiss anyone as far as I can remember though.
I treat anyone else as how I want to treat myself.
This is (probably) because I have a natural gift of extreme empathy and kissing anyone would (probably) feel like kissing yourself.
So all of Lelach experiences is considered a first to me and should not conflict too much with her.
One mind but still have different will.
This is what confuses me the most.
Should I know what she wants to object to before she made the objection because I have all her memory?
Do we control or sense from both body simultaneously or is it reverting/alternating to each other body at a specific period?
I wonder if we can do the opposite of separation.
How about fusing the two of the will together to create a new will or personality?
This might be easier than separating them and make our life easier.
I can make Lelach the dominant personality in this new personality if she wants to.
We could possibly try self-hypnosis to do this.
I will consult Lelach about this.
By the way, do I know how Lelach pray to get guidance from the King?
If I know then I will pray with her to give us a solution or to get any help for our situation.
What do Lelach and Morani usually do in their everyday life and is there change to it after Morani knows that Lelach is pregnant?
I have not kill anyone but have kill mosquito that is biting me even after I have warded them to go away. (Self defense of course. Sometime I even let them bite me once and leave as long as the mosquito does not annoy me by flying around and trying to get more. I do hope that the mosquito will have a happy afterlife though.)
The frequency of an object is probably what people refer psychometry (should not be confused with psychometrics) phenomenon as.
Each object have specific pattern imbued with them such as color, chemical composition, past events and others that will form that pattern.
By categorizing this pattern, we can probably search for a similar pattern to find what suited our needs.
What do Lelach use to prepare food?
Does she use a knife or some tools to prepare it?
What does sprite use to hunt animals for food?
What shiny object exist in this world that Lelach know?
I suggest we start our practice in drawing if Lelach wants to.
We can try to draw a map of the places that Lelach have gone to, a picture of surroundings or anything that Lelach wishes to draw. (Maybe a picture of Morani if she wants to surprise him.)
We will try to meditate to rest both of the body and mind if Lelach wish to rest.
Can you make a post on what day after the mind fusion event to the journal so that I know what the current day is? Any behind the screens info can also be included there if it is not too much trouble for you.
Yes, I can see why that would be confusing.One mind but still have different will.
This is what confuses me the most.
The reason you have two wills is not so much that there are two of you, but that there are two of us. I need a fair mechanic to determine whether "You" collectively do what you think you would do or what I think she would do; the balance of will powers thus is not about which one of you controls so much as which aspect of your roughly-unified personality is currently dominant. Lelach is very much against the mental invasion of privacy; you perceive mental contact as a valuable tool. There are not two opinions in your joined mind, but reasons supporting two distinct positions. The will power check determines which opinion currently governs you. Thus we can look at it as you proposing thoughts you would like to entertain as the basis for action, and Lelach doing the same, and the dice being rolled to determine which thoughts are accepted by the corporate person as the basis for action.
Does that help?
Lelach does not know anything about self-hypnosis but what you know, but she is a bit wary of it.
Prayers to the king are usually made by going to someone else and telling that person what you need, and asking them to take your petition to the king. Men usually take such petitions to their teachers or to the male elders of the village; women usually take them to their husbands or fathers. It is possible to take a petition to a female elder, but she would probably in turn take it to a male elder. Lelach does not know where the male elders take the petitions.
Lelach's pregnancy does not have much impact on what they do. He does the hunting, she gathers edible vegetation and cares for the home and cooking.
He hunts with a small bow and arrows. The arrowheads are stone, and the fletching is feather.
Her utensils are mostly wood with a few sharp stones for special purposes.
Lelach has heard that there are stones that are shinier than the best of those found in the nearby streambed, but she has not seen them.
Since you've got this joined mind, I am assuming that you are getting most of this information on the first couple days of the melded mind. After all, if you think a question and Lelach knows the answer, you remember the answer as if you'd already known it. Thus the process is extremely quick.
She is not really sure how to make a map of a forest. There is a stream nearby, and lots of trees, and a few clearings. She knows how to fly from place to place, and does have a path to walk to the stream.
Stitching pictures is a slow process.
--M. J. Young
If the minds are as united as they seem to be then I think there is no need for self-hypnosis.
Would Lelach want to tell Morani about the situation or do she prefer to keep quiet about it?
Would she prefer go to the female elder without telling Morani?
Would Lelach want to try to ask for the guidance directly by asking the King in her mind (or does Lelach think that King cannot read the mind of subjects)?
How does she care for the home (weeding perhaps)?
Do Lelach throw away the left over of the mouse?
If not, what is it use for (fabric perhaps)?
Can the mouse bone be used as an arrowhead if sharpened?
Try to suggest this to Morani.
Do they make accessories such as necklace or bracelet with the mouse bone remains (teeth perhaps)?
If there a stream nearby then probably there is clay.
Would Lelach want to try pottery to preserve food or mithisella?
I think it might be a good way to keep mithisella dry in the winter.
We will sketch a picture on the ground first then probably copy it to the fabric via stitching if we have the time.
We can also ask Morani what it is to make paint or ink to write in this world.
Is it ash, blood, food item (such as berry) or others?
We can try to make the paint or ink ourselves.
We can also learn to paint the fabric using the ink.
How is the baby doing?
How does sprite take care of their children?
Is there anything that a mother would prepare for their child?
What day is today from the mind fusion?
Lelach is very uncertain about telling anyone about this insanity that has taken her. She does not think it is normal to be able to feel the pregnancy from the baby's perspective, never mind to have these notions that the baby had a previous life in another world. But the idea of going to the female elder appeals to her, if that's what you want to do. She is not comfortable doing so without telling Morani, and she is not comfortable telling Morani, but she is trying to think of how to suggest to Morani that she wants to talk to the elder about whether her pregnancy is going the right way without worrying him or giving him too much information.
She doesn't exactly weed the clearing, but she does stamp out plants that encroach.
The food is shared with other sprites if there is more than they need. These include their parents and a few neighbors. If everyone has too much food, it is usually fed to the fish in the streams. Hides are used sometimes for leather or fur, if they are of good quality, and occasionally bones are used for tools, but stone arrowheads are stronger. Sprites do not wear jewelry.
They do have sunbaked and open fire baked pottery, mostly for dishes and pots, and do some cooking in such pots. You will probably be fed some sort of seed-based mush cereal when you are old enough, which will be served in such bowls.
The mithisella is stored over the winter for use in the spring. The winter is spent inside the tree with the entrance sealed against the cold, eating stored food. Fires inside the tree would be very bad.
The inks used at the school are made from berry juice and ash. Morani asks why she asks.
It's really too soon to be doing much to prepare for the birth of the baby. Rags to use for diapers are being collected, and eventually a grass-lined bedding area will be made.
Concerning the advance of days, I've been more focused on answering your questions and treating them as if they are all being asked on the same day; but then, you're also taking actions that would probably occur over at least several days. So let's say that three more days have elapsed, making it the sixth day of the journal.
--M. J. Young
Female elders probably know how to write to convey the message effectively to the male elders. Tell Morani that Lelach wanted to become the female elder apprentice. That is why she asked about the ink to learn how to write to help the female elder with the work probably as a secretary. What do Lelach think about this idea?
Did Lelach sew the journal with bone needle?
Some bone may be sharper and can withstand much pressure from stone of the same size but it depends on the bone density.
Have we done any progress on the checking the pattern (or frequency) of object such as density (mass/volume) and other attributes?
Do sprite oppose to wearing jewelry?
Do we manage to make pottery for the baby that is to come?
Make ink from berry juice and ash.
Write the journal using the ink for the new entry.
Write any information of this world that we know in the new entry.
Collect the sewn or written with ink entry and the stitched or painted picture together.
Sew the fabric together to form a book.
A map can be made by scaling the terrain to fit the fabric.
The measurement can be made using a rope of certain length.
You can know which way is north by observing the movement of sun from east to west (hopefully it is the same in this world).
Lelach can also put the place where the dangerous creature might roam in the map and its name.
All I should know from the day of mind fusion will be known then.
A berry would be the size of a basketball right?
Footnote: I was wondering if I could post the content of the journal here to ease your work but I do not know if it will be considered as spam.
If it is alright to do so then maybe I will quote it later on.
You may want to check the journal out as it will have some questions and future actions (that I will plan to do but not doing it now).
The future action can be done if certain conditions are met such as making the map for the stars after finish with making map for the surrounding.
Females are not generally taught to read or write, because it is not part of their task to study the ancient writings, but only to help other sprites grow into their places in the world. Also, you don't apprentice to be an elder--you simply live long enough.
Lelach has several needles, and a few of them are metal, but most of them are bone. Metal needles are made by humans. There are a few sprites who trade with a few humans to get a few such things.
Nothing is being done for the baby yet because it is still months away.
Sprites do not wear jewelry because if it gets caught in something while they are flying it can be dangerous; it can also attract the attention of birds of prey.
You make the ink and write your latest journal entry.
Your best estimate on the size of a sprite is roughly twelve inches tall, plus or minus. That makes everything about six times as large, relatively, as they would be. A blueberry would be the relative size of a golf ball; blackberries and raspberries would be larger, and strawberries larger yet, but I think that the relative size of a basketball would be about two inches in diameter, and there are no berries that big.
You attempt to read a "pattern" in the fabric to use for matching, but your joined mind becomes unstable, you feel a surge of mental energy, and suddenly you lose consciousness.
As you awaken, there is blurry light around you, plus the muffled sound of pumping fluids. You remember what happened to you, and you remember everything of which you were consciously aware over the past few days (i.e., anything included in the threads, but nothing referenced as something Lelach knows that is not given in detail), but you have lost touch with her mind, her senses, and her memories.
You are alone in the body of the baby once again.
This event might make the question of the journal moot, so I'm not going to address it at present. In general I don't mind you copying between threads, but I do read them both even though I don't answer the other.
--M. J. Young
Yes!! I am back to normal. Very lucky indeed.
I wonder if that experience really boost my familiarity with Lelach.
I hope Lelach is well too.
Do I have enough familiarity now to read Morani mind?
If I feel through intuition that I can read his mind (because I have met him and have memory of him) then I will try it at least 3 times.
If I connect to him then I will practice mind reading with him.
The mind fusion event can be categorized as a sort of telepathic connection.
Can I contact Lelach via telepathy now because of this event?
I will try to meditate first before trying it to calm my mind then try contacting her mind. (This will be more like people talking than reading mind.)
I will also try this 3 times if my intuition think it is do-able.
If I manage to connect then I will thank her for her cooperation.
I will also ask her to update the journal if she have the time because it will be a good learning practice.
I would also ask her if it is alright to maintain this telepathic connection or does she think that it is better not to do it?
If she agrees to maintain the connection then maybe I will try to teach her chess or something so that we can play games in the free time.
She can also consult with me if she needs any advice.
The diameter of one inch berry should be about 2/3 of a basketball relatively if the berry is 6 times the original size.
Should the question about sprite whether sprite can swim, fly in adverse weather condition and sprite heat resistance be known from the first day of mind fusion?
Having met Morani is apparently not sufficient for you to have familiarity with his mind, any more than having seen a photo of a DJ helps you find him on the radio. You know what the man's body looks like, but you don't really know what his mind looks like.
You do find it a bit easier to reach Lelach's mind. Although your mediation does not seem to help, you do connect with her telepathically on the first try, establishing a two-way communication.
She is a bit frightened by the contact, but perhaps less so than she was before.
She cannot update the journal, nor can she read it, because she no longer has any knowledge of the written language you brought her.
Sprites don't really swim because they can fly, but if they fall in water they usually manage to flounder out or stay afloat until rescued. They can't hold their breath very long. Foul weather makes flying more difficult, but it depends on how foul and how good a flyer you are. As to heat resistance, it is not clear that the skin temperature of a sprite ever exceeds 110F; part of the trick is that the mithisella has such a low ignition point, and the sprite combines focused body heat with friction to meet it.
The telepathic connection fails after about ten minutes, because you fall asleep. You awaken later, but of course don't really know how much later.
--M. J. Young
So I guess even the physical image, name and reading one body expression is not enough to read one mind in my current state. I really wonder how this mind reading works.
Can I read my own mind to see how it works or something?
Can I explore my own mind using mind reading?
I wonder if self mind exploration counts as mind reading?
If I can explore my own mind, can I search my own memory to improve (or clarify) my memory on that particular subject?
This is probably how hypnosis or memorization works.
Do my mind reading work through contact or something?
Can I read Morani mind if Lelach have contact with Morani?
I will practice with meditation and telepathy every chance that I got.
This is because it the only means of communication to the outside world right now.
I will ask Lelach what day and time this is every time I got the connection.
I will also ask if Lelach want to learn how to read or write in human language.
If she agrees then I will teach her telepathically.
Can I send a mental image or picture to Lelach and vice versa?
If I can, then send the image of alphabet and how to write them.
If I cannot, then I will instruct her just using words.
Next, maybe I will teach her how to spell common words.
Can I share my knowledge efficiently through telepathy?
What is the limitation of my telepathy?
Can I calculate my percentage of success versus failure if I use telepathy with meditation and telepathy without meditation?
I wonder if Lelach has answered Morani's question on the ink issue.
She might tell him she is interested to know about it for the future of her child if the child turn out to be male.
Any changes in the womb?
Can I filter out the sound in the womb and amplify the outside sound to hear what people are talking about outside if I feel someone is talking outside?
I wonder if Lelach will want to meet me in dream so that the teaching process will be easier.
I will ask her about this telepathically.
If she agree then I will attempt to do it.
This would be 'mutual dream sharing' rather than 'invade dream' right?
You probably can read your own mind; but then, since your mind reading to this point has been focused on reading someone's conscious thoughts or tapping into their senses, and you already know your conscious thoughts and can sense what little your senses are sensing, I'm not certain what you would be attempting to read in your own mind. So clarify what you're seeking, and we'll go from there.
As to reading your own memories, you succeed; I need to know, though, whether this is a specialized skill that enables you to tap your own memories with much greater accuracy, or a skill that lets you read anyone's memories which you happened to use on yourself.
The difference that meditation makes is not great enough to be able to calculate with any certainty during practice, particularly since you can never be certain whether the meditation "worked" at all so all you have is that sometimes you feel more centered and it makes you feel as if you are better able to tap your inner energies. You manage to connect with Lelach somewhat less than half the time you attempt to do so, for times ranging from a minute to until you fall asleep again from mental fatigue.
You realize abruptly one day that you are able to move your arms and legs--not well, but you can. When you raise your hand in front of your face, it is a dark blur blocking out the light.
Are you attempting to control the sound itself, or are you attempting to adjust the way you hear and/or process sound, or are you attempting to bypass your hearing entirely and "listen" to the sound by some other process?Can I filter out the sound in the womb and amplify the outside sound to hear what people are talking about outside if I feel someone is talking outside?
I'm not certain about "mutual dream sharing", because that would imply that both of you had the skill, and Lelach does not have any psionic skills. I would allow that it was easier to invade someone's dreams if you'd been invited or permitted (and thus bonused).
Lelach is not comfortable with meeting you in her dreams. She's not comfortable conversing with you telepathically, but she's getting used to the fact that it's going to happen, and in any case she would rather be conscious and so in control of herself when she is communicating with you.
--M. J. Young
From now on, I will try to meditate before trying something new just to get a clear mind if I get the chance or enough time to do it.
I am trying to read how I do the things with my mind.
I want to know what part of my mind or brain activate when doing a specific thing.
As an example, what part activates mind reading and what it need to work?
How do the mental frequency perceived or searched in this process and can I just randomly tap into anyone mind?
What part of my mind activate if I think of communication (spoken or written)?
What part of it activate when I try to remember things?
What part of my mind activate when I try to move my limb such as hand?
This can be a reference to read other minds later on.
As for reading my own memories it is to tap my own memory with greater accuracy so I can remember things much better (like a photographic memory perhaps).
This skill might be able to read other memory if preceded by a mind reading others first because of a mind link.
A chain skill perhaps or is it a different skill altogether?
I will attempt to adjust the way I hear by processing the sound in my mind.
I can also add the vibration that I feel to amplify the sound.
I can feel the vibration because I can raise my hand right?
Heavy reliance to sound input (provided you have enough mental capacity to process it) can make one sense sharper right?
Should this be here rather than behind the scene?
Physical contact between Lelach and Morani does not enable you to read Morani's mind.
Lelach is still pretty upset that you are communicating with her this way, and she does not want to learn any skills she shouldn't be able to know--she's afraid that there might be something demonic going on here, and even if there isn't she's afraid that others will think that there is.
I do not know if conscious or not will be a problem if communicating in a dream.
If she is not comfortable conversing to me telepathically then the more the reason to communicate in the dream.
Can I ask her what I can do to make her more comfortable about the telepathy?
What does she interested to learn (simple counting perhaps or does she know this)?
If she would not want to learn anything then can she teach me anything then?
Can she tell me more about the stories of angelic or demonic beings in this world and how is my situation similar to them?
Does she tell me what day it is when I connect with her telepathically?
Any changes in the womb will be noted using my new memorization skill.
O.K., I'm not going to make this a skill, but I am going to state that having studied the operation of different parts of your own mind you will get +5 on creating/learning any psionic mind reading skill that targets a specific aspect of someone else's mind; I will also consider the bonus for certain other skills that would involve understanding how different parts of the mind work, so mention this bonus if you think it might be relevant.I am trying to read how I do the things with my mind.
I want to know what part of my mind or brain activate when doing a specific thing.
As an example, what part activates mind reading and what it need to work?
How do the mental frequency perceived or searched in this process and can I just randomly tap into anyone mind?
What part of my mind activate if I think of communication (spoken or written)?
What part of it activate when I try to remember things?
What part of my mind activate when I try to move my limb such as hand?
This can be a reference to read other minds later on.
You succeed in reading your own memories very clearly and vividly. Reading someone else's memories would be a distinct skill, but I will allow this one as an example to bonus success on that if you attempt it at some time.As for reading my own memories it is to tap my own memory with greater accuracy so I can remember things much better (like a photographic memory perhaps).
This skill might be able to read other memory if preceded by a mind reading others first because of a mind link.
A chain skill perhaps or is it a different skill altogether?
The enhancement of specific audio as against the background would be one type of skill, and the conversion of vibration information on the skin into auditory information another. They can be combined, at a penalty, or learned as separate skills which enhance each other, as you prefer.I will attempt to adjust the way I hear by processing the sound in my mind.
I can also add the vibration that I feel to amplify the sound.
I can feel the vibration because I can raise my hand right?
The fact that you can move your hand means only that you have motor control to some degree. It's not even really very good motor control.
If you are thinking that you can feel the vibrations in the amniotic fluid, or place your hand against the uterine wall, remember that everything here is designed to reduce shock and vibration significantly. It might help, but those vibrations are also muffled. You don't really feel much on your skin anyway--nerve endings there are still minimal.
Sorry about the displaced text; I run several windows at once, and sometimes type in the wrong ones, and don't always catch the mistakes. Yes, that belonged over here.
Lelach is uncomfortable with the very concept of telepathy, for starters; it seems like magic, and not like something a sprite ought to be able to do. Second, she is doubly disturbed that whoever or whatever is contacting her is at least pretending to be her own baby. If it is not her baby, it is some spirit attempting to terrorize her and drive her crazy. If it is her baby, then she might be giving birth to some kind of monster, something that is not really a sprite. She will be glad to teach her baby when he is born; she is reluctant either to teach anything to or learn anything from this voice in her head, whether or not it really is her baby.
--M. J. Young
I will try the vibration sensing much later because of current minimal nerve ending.
I will try to get a feel to the vibration around me to accustom myself for what is to come much later.
Not trying for a new skill but just trying to accustom self with surrounding.
I plan to make this (future) skill to enhance my auditory sense and vice versa.
Enhancement of specific audio is what I had planned in mind.
Is signal processing in mind hard to do in this world?
Do knowledge in signal processing, mental calculation and reading the part of mind to control hearing help in any way?
If my intuition think it is do-able then I will attempt to do it but not without meditating first to clear my mind.
A sprite elder can do magic right?
I am very lucky that what I have attempted seem to work better than what I have anticipated before.
Lelach can doubt my presence as not her baby because I am not 100% sure that I am her baby.
Can she teach me a song in spritish to ward of evil if it exists?
That may prove that I am not evil at least.
Well if she define a person who have telepathic power is a monster then what does human think of sprite or vice versa.
To a human, a sprite might be a monster and to a sprite, a human might be a monster.
So it might help to think me as a gifted child from the King.
I will tell Lelach that the King might have some kind of plan for both of us.
I would tell her any joke that I know or make one (using what I think would make a sprite laugh) to ease her stress.
Making or choosing an appropriate joke might be intellect check.
Deciding will it be funny to Lelach might be intuition check.
What Lelach reaction to the joke might be a GE roll or do you decide just by GE roll?
When I study my own mind, do I know how the mind reading skill works?
What makes them work?
Does it work by direct contact or direct visual image?
Can a blind person initiate mind reading by using voice of others?
Can I just randomly search for a mental frequency or is it there is no other mental frequency present other than Lelach's and mine?
I will then try to ask the King for guidance for my situation by thinking about it.
I will ask the King about why I am here in the first place.
This will be like a dynamic meditation where I will try to ask myself the question and hope for a reply that come in form of intuition, dream or others.
Do I get the 1@1 Read Memories P1@1 skill or not?
If not, does it mean that the roll for it become the roll for 1@1 Enhanced Recollection P1@1 (read minds on self) or should it be re-rolled if any new info about the skill is known even if both skill are at P1@1?
Or do the read memories skill are needed as a prerequisite to do enhance recollection skill?
This question is made to clear any confusion on my skill list.
Is signal processing in mind hard to do in this world?
As compared to what? I'm assuming that what you are attempting to do is not something you've ever done before. If I'm wrong, then you need to tell me more about what you've done in the past that is either this or like this. If I'm right, then you would have no way of knowing whether this is easier or more difficult as compared with other worlds.
A sprite elder can do magic right?
Technically, you don't know what a sprite elder can do; you know what Lelach thinks a sprite elder can do. She believes that such elders represent the people in a way that enables them better to get answers to requests on behalf of the people. She does not know how that works, but probably would not call it "magic".
Can she teach me a song in spritish to ward of evil if it exists?
That would be magic. She does not know any magic.
Well if she define a person who have telepathic power is a monster then what does human think of sprite or vice versa.
Actually, humans think sprites are vermin who mimic human behavior. Humans kill sprites, apparently for sport.
So yes, sprites think that humans are monsters.
So it might help to think me as a gifted child from the King.
I will tell Lelach that the King might have some kind of plan for both of us.
This does appeal to her, and she relaxes some. It suggests you might be like Tonathel, one of the heroes in the writings who saved the sprites from the elves long ago. Of course, there's nothing about Tonathel in the writings that said he could use telepathic powers, but there were other heroes, and each was different, and even if none had telepathic powers that doesn't mean that such things are impossible for the King.
When I study my own mind, do I know how the mind reading skill works?
Yes. You are in essence tuning your mind to the frequency of the person whose mind you are reading, so that their thoughts come into your head. Once you know someone's "frequency" by tuning into them once, you can do it again, but until you know their frequency you have to know very precisely where they are relative to you so that you can focus on that spot--something you cannot do from your current position, as you can't even really be certain which way is up sometimes.
As to whether a blind person could use sound to locate a target, there's no way you could know the answer to that question.
Can I just randomly search for a mental frequency or is it there is no other mental frequency present other than Lelach's and mine?
There are more possible mental frequencies than there are all creatures of any kind including plants and microorganisms in the entire multiverse, and the precision with which you must target one individual frequency is so exacting that your effort might be comparable to trying to hit the center square on a checkerboard in Manhattan by throwing pebbles from Mars.
I will then try to ask the King for guidance for my situation by thinking about it.
I will ask the King about why I am here in the first place.
This will be like a dynamic meditation where I will try to ask myself the question and hope for a reply that come in form of intuition, dream or others.
I am assuming that this is a silent prayer-by-thought, and not an attempt at some sort of psionic skill. That would make it a prayer for guidance. Do you concur?
If so, for how long are you "praying", and apart from thinking these questions in a meditative and prayerful attitude, are you doing anything else?
Do I get the 1@1 Read Memories P1@1 skill or not?
If not, does it mean that the roll for it become the roll for 1@1 Enhanced Recollection P1@1 (read minds on self) or should it be re-rolled if any new info about the skill is known even if both skill are at P1@1?
Or do the read memories skill are needed as a prerequisite to do enhance recollection skill?
You taught yourself to read your own memories, a P1@1 read minds variant which is being listed as Enhanced Recollection. That skill does not work to read the memories of other people, and you have not to this point attempted to read anyone else's memories; you could, of course, attempt to read Lelach's memories, because you have her frequency. Doing so would be teaching yourself a new skill, but you would gain a bonus on the attempt to learn that skill based on the fact that you already know how to read your own memories, which is similar. That bonus would be the skill ability level you have on this skill, currently 1@1 (in addition to your BRA, your bias, and the world bias level, but minus the 1@1 target skill bias). If you improve your ability to read your own memories (which ordinarily takes months of disciplined regular practice) you will improve the bonus you would get for learning this other skill.
So the ability to read memories of others is not yet on your skill sheet, because although you have an example that will help you figure out how to do it, you've not yet actually taught yourself the skill.
I should add that in theory you can teach yourself how to do something without actually doing it, but it's rather difficult to describe doing that when you're talking about a psionic skill such as this. That's more common with tech skills, where you can learn everything you need to know to repair a device from a book, and thus have the skill even though you've never repaired the device.
--M. J. Young
As compared to what? I'm assuming that what you are attempting to do is not something you've ever done before. If I'm wrong, then you need to tell me more about what you've done in the past that is either this or like this. If I'm right, then you would have no way of knowing whether this is easier or more difficult as compared with other worlds.
How about concentrating on hearing news via television where the volume is low and there are many people chatting loudly. In this situation, I have to be called several times to be aware of my surroundings. Not only I have to enhance a specific voice (of news presenter) but I have to filter out the loud noises around me. I also have to fill the gap with probable word if I miss something.
There are also other example of signal processing such as temporary synesthesia where I combine one trait to another such as certain behavior/personality/presence to color, certain action/intent to repulsive feeling, certain equation to right/wrong feeling and others. Face recognition might combine certain face (which is processed by using certain characteristics) to certain name.
Signal processing can also be done by utilizing two or more senses to get a combined information from it. This is called multimodal interaction that is demonstrated by the McGurk effect.
Does the above examples satisfactory to know about the difficulty of signal processing in this world?
If I think it is more or less the same difficulty then I will attempt the enhancement of specific audio skill or do I already have this skill in my skill list?
Technically, you don't know what a sprite elder can do; you know what Lelach thinks a sprite elder can do. She believes that such elders represent the people in a way that enables them better to get answers to requests on behalf of the people. She does not know how that works, but probably would not call it "magic".
Can we call it King's answer or miracle then?
Actually, humans think sprites are vermin who mimic human behavior. Humans kill sprites, apparently for sport.
I hope not all human think like that in this world.
There must be some decent human around that will trade with sprite such as the person who traded the metal needle with Lelach.
This does appeal to her, and she relaxes some. It suggests you might be like Tonathel, one of the heroes in the writings who saved the sprites from the elves long ago. Of course, there's nothing about Tonathel in the writings that said he could use telepathic powers, but there were other heroes, and each was different, and even if none had telepathic powers that doesn't mean that such things are impossible for the King.
This is what Lelach's grandmother told her right?
Is Lelach's grandmother still alive now and what is her name?
I ask Lelach to tell me more about Tonathel and friends adventure such as how they save the sprites from the elves. I would love to hear about them.
I am glad that she relaxes more so I think I do not have to make a joke to cheer her up.
Once you know someone's "frequency" by tuning into them once, you can do it again, but until you know their frequency you have to know very precisely where they are relative to you so that you can focus on that spot--something you cannot do from your current position, as you can't even really be certain which way is up sometimes.
Can I know the position of Lelach's brain or mind relative to mine when I do telepathy or is this a new skill?
If I can, then the location of up is towards Lelach's mind provided that the mind resides within the brain.
Or does the mental frequency covers the whole body of a person?
If it covers the whole body can the body shape be known (or at least the part that the mind frequency covers)?
If I do not know Lelach's position, then I will try a new skill by doing the reverse of what mind reading needed to do first; that is knowing the position of a person (of known frequency) relative to me.
As to whether a blind person could use sound to locate a target, there's no way you could know the answer to that question.
Not for now at least, but I will keep this in mind.
I am assuming that this is a silent prayer-by-thought, and not an attempt at some sort of psionic skill. That would make it a prayer for guidance. Do you concur?
Yes.
If so, for how long are you "praying", and apart from thinking these questions in a meditative and prayerful attitude, are you doing anything else?
I will do this for one consciousness cycle that is about 10 minutes. During this time the answer might come as an intuition. If I fell asleep then the answer will probably come in form of dream or others.
I think I would not do anything other than praying in this consciousness cycle.
An experiment to know whether I am really her child:
I will tell her telepathically (if my telepathy connects in a practice) that I will try to move my leg.
Can Lelach feel my movement if I try to move my legs?
If she can, can she feel the vibration of movement with her hands?
If she can, do Lelach want to share this moment with Morani or will she keep it to herself?
Yes, and it suggests that this is a skill you already have, a P3@0 sensitivity variant, the ability to focus your attention on part of the sensory information available to you. Are you an amateur or a professional at this? How good an amateur or professional (relative to other amateurs or professionals)?How about concentrating on hearing news....Does the above examples satisfactory to know about the difficulty of signal processing in this world?
King's answer is fine.
Lelach's grandmother is very elderly and is cared for by Lelach's parents; she rarely goes out and rarely has visitors, spending most of her time resting.
The short version of the story of Tonathel: there was a war between the elves and the gnomes. The sprites shared part of the forest with the elves at that time, and the elves insisted that the sprites should fight with them; but sprites believed it was morally wrong to kill other creatures "made in the image of the King", and so would not attack the gnomes. The elves then declared that the sprites were traitors or spies, working with the gnomes, and threatened their lives. Tonathel led the sprites out of their shared homeland into the realms they now inhabit. The King showed him the way and helped them on their journey. This was a very very long time ago.
No. Although it is possible to determine the frequency of a mind by focusing on its physical location, reversing the process is not part of the mind reading/telepathic ability. You could detect the position of Lelach's mind, probably, but not with these skills. As to where the mind "resides", it seems to be part of the spirit, which is attached to the body, but its exact point of attachment is rather vague (it's not really attached in the physical world, but is an interfacing point between the spiritual and the material. As far as what you can tell from the frequency, you only really know Lelach's and your own, so that's too small a sample size to determine too much.
As to detecting the location of Lelach's mind, you could attempt simply to detect thought and find the directions to the strongest thinking creatures in the area, of which Lelach would probably be the strongest (because of proximity) unless she happens not to be thinking at that moment (e.g., asleep); but it would not give you the location, only the direction. You could instead use Lelach's mind as a "known landmark" for a type of detect location, giving you your distance and direction from her mind; but it can only be used thus because you can treat her mind as a known fixed point in your limited world, and that would not enable you to detect the location of some other object. There are ways to read minds that do not involve knowing either the frequency or the location, but these are significantly different from what you are doing.
To work out what happens when you pray, I'm going to have to ask you a few questions about your religion--
- How religious/religiously educated are you? How do you compare with the average person, the average church member, the average minister?
- Do you believe you have ever successfully prayed for guidance before? If so, tell me something about it in some detail.
- Is it your opinion that The King to whom you are addressing this prayer probably is or probably is not the same deity as the god of your human faith? Do you think that matters? Why or why not?
When you swing your leg, you do not connect with anything solid, and it does not move very fast. You seem at this point to be floating in a lake, but that you are completely submerged and do not need to breathe. It is doubtful whether you even moved yourself much with how feeble the kick was.
--M. J. Young
My previous post really combines OOC and PC together but can be used both ways. It really feels like meta-gaming in a way but I do sometime think of life in gaming sort of way.
I am probably average at P3@0 sensitivity variant because I thought that most of the people can do it but probably that was not the case. I did not know what is professional level for it but maybe if someone can hear heartbeat from others from far away then maybe that is the professional level of it. If that is the professional level then I think I have not reach that yet but if you meant discerning a specific known voice (at normal television viewing distance at restaurant/food stall with normal low volume) from other interferences (such as loud chatting) then maybe.
I have known Lelach and Morani voice right?
I should be able to discern their voice from interferences right?
Can I find Morani's exact location relative to mine or just his general direction from his voice?
Can I calculate the talking distance of Lelach and Morani using voice and behavioral data that I got from mind fusion?
I hope that I can visit Lelach's parents and grandmother later on and pay my respects for them for everything that they have done to raise Lelach to be a fine mother.
I would also love to hear tales from Lelach's parents and grandmother.
Tonathel's story is interesting. I wonder if elves (if they survive the attack of gnomes) on their homeland still have resentment for sprites for not helping them. I hope that elves and gnomes have achieved peace in their homeland and forget the grudge that they hold for each other (sprites included). It also kind of suggest that there are a pathway to go to this world from the world of elves.
I wonder if this pathway is sealed or is it still open.
If it is open, does it have a way to go back to elves world or is it a one-way path?
Is Tonathel a sprite who is a person in previous life just like me?
This questions linger in my mind and I will keep it for future reference.
How my mind reading skill works fascinates me.
It means that after I found the interfacing point of mind and body I will be connected to that mind.
The landmark or mind-mark of interfacing point is interesting to note.
Well, at least now I know where up is when Lelach is standing or sitting upright.
I know that there are various variant to read people minds and having more more ways than one to read people mind helps a lot.
I would also like to try reading mind using the voice characteristics such as pitch, volume and others to evaluate one's mental state.
This is probably a branch from read body language and expression skill that is fused with sensitivity variant.
I will meditate and attempt this mind reading with voice variant to see what Morani is thinking at that time if I ever manage to hear his voice.
Does going to a religious school means that I am religiously educated?
I am probably an average member of a religion and I research other religion to find a common point that leads a person to healthy life style.
I do believe that researching each religion and believe may empower someone to be closer to the Truth and thus be closer to God.
I have pray to be lead to the right path and when I reflect back on my past there are many events that people thought are coincidental happens around me (such as the happenings in this forum and how I directly found this game) that lead me to where I am right now and I do believe it is the right one.
I have the intuition that I am about to lead a divergent life style by using palm reading. The life line splits in two where one of it signify death around the age I am right now probably because of versing but this is maybe coincidental.
I believe that God have plenty of names, so King might be one of God's name.
I believe at the highest level there must be an individual (or collective depending how people see it) that governs all reality, so I do believe it is the same at least at the fundamental level.
If God can create one world then what is obstructing God from creating another?
I also believe that God is omniscient (thus can read my mind) so even a simple prayer can be answered if it is the time for the prayer to be answered and vice versa.
Any significant changes in situation inside or outside the womb?
How much time has passed and what is the estimated time of birth (ETB)?
Although you do have the ability to sort out voices from background noise, on this occasion you can't do it. The voices are too distant and muffled by the protective layers of fluids and fats surrounding you.
Even finding the general direction of sound through the liquids is difficult, as it tends to reach you from all directions at once.
The King has not yet answered your prayer. Of course, at the moment there's not much that you could do anyway.
I'm willing to accelerate the movement of days if you are simply practicing and not trying to do new things during that time.
It is three days since you first realized you could move your arms and legs a little.
--M. J. Young
My hearing might not be fully developed yet.
That is why I will need to practice it with this body.
If I cannot hear it clearly then I think I would not be able to determine the sound general direction.
The King (or God) not answering might be an answer by itself.
It just mean that I have to be patience for what it is to come.
I will thank King (or God) for the guidance and will wait for the answer when the time has come by praying.
Will this be treated as practice for M7@7 Communicate Off-world because I am just thanking King (or God) for guidance?
It is good to know that Lelach can at least count the days when I communicate with her telepathically.
If not how would I know that it have been 3 days since I could move my arms and legs?
The timetable for practice:
Priority:
If I hear anyone talk in the middle of anything that I am doing other than praying then I will meditate first then try to make sense of the voice (using 1@9 Focus Senses P3@0 sensitivity variant). Then I will resume the other practice routine.
Normal consciousness cycle:
Cycle 1: 1 minute of meditation followed by memory recalling. I will practice recalling on what have happen when I have the mind fusion to search for example of cooking, sewing, fire-starting, and others that I think is significant (mainly about survival skill of this world). If I have finish that then I will practice recalling science, math, song, story, self-hypnosis recording, history, joke, game and anything that I can think of. I might also want recall moves in chess and how to counter each of them.
Cycle 2: This cycle is for prayer to thank King (or God) for guidance and will wait for the answer when the time has come.
Cycle 3: 1 minute of meditation followed by telepathy to Lelach. I will practice this by telling Lelach about what I have been recalling on my Cycle 1 if I think it is appropriate. I would also ask her about the outside world and the well-being of others. I would also thank her for telling me the current day from the last I have telepathy connection with her.
If something change such as hearing voice clearly, feeling of getting new significant information that I can do something about (maybe from prayer or telepathy), or being able to do something new because of something significant changes in the womb (such as developing sufficient touch nerve, motor skills or getting big enough that Lelach knows my movement) then I will do something else.
If not, you can accelerate the movement of days.
I'm willing to extend to you the notion that if you spend time with your mental prayer for guidance fairly regularly, sufficient that it comes to a bit more than three hours per week, that will count as practice, and your ability with it will improve between now and the time you are born. You might even happen to get some idea of an answer in that time.
About a month elapses, and you feel changes in your body; you have more control over your arms and legs, although specific movements are still difficult. You also now have genuine tactile sensation--you don't feel the water around you, but you do feel your own body when you touch it. You occasionally bump into the walls of your enclosure, but you are apparently still so small and so light that the full impact of your contact is too little for Lelach to feel.
--M. J. Young
Sorry for getting in the game, but I was wondering. If there anything in Zygote Experience about when children become self-aware? My sister had a baby a few months ago, and we were talking about that. Is he self-aware yet? Just wondering.
(Doing Therapy)
I'm willing to extend to you the notion that if you spend time with your mental prayer for guidance fairly regularly, sufficient that it comes to a bit more than three hours per week, that will count as practice, and your ability with it will improve between now and the time you are born. You might even happen to get some idea of an answer in that time.
If my Cycle 2 for the prayer last for cumulative three hours per week that is. This is because I have no idea how long this cycle actually take in a week.
I would have to ask Lelach about the number of time that I have contacted her successfully in Cycle 3 using telepathy per week which I will named variable ST.
The time I failed to contact her telepathically in Cycle 3 will be variable FT.
Variable AT is ST plus FT.
If AT is over 18 times (average 10 minutes x 18 = 3 hours) then probably I have 3 hours per week.
For the situation where the average consciousness time is 10 minutes, if you decided that it is 3 hours then I would say the practice cycle averagely repeats at least 2 to 3 times a day which would mean at least 6 to 9 consciousness/unconsciousness cycle per day.
This number may be lower if I have more average consciousness time.
If I have an average of (5 + 30)/2 = 17.5 minutes then probably I need about 10 to 11 times. (I assume this is uniformly distributed but if it is not then maybe I would have to calculate it using the frequency formula but it can be done.)
For the situation where the average consciousness time is 17.5 minutes, if you decided that it is 3 hours then I would say the practice cycle averagely repeats at least 1 to 2 times a day which would mean at least 3 to 6 consciousness/unconsciousness cycle per day.
Is my assumption correct?
Other than the uncertainty of how it is managed because of uncertainty of average consciousness time and average consciousness/unconsciousness cycle per week, I would agree with how it is handled.
Do I feel that my ability to stay awake becomes much longer averagely?
Have I heard any sound clearly yet?
Can I feel wings growing on my back or something?
Can my gender be differentiated now using touch or something?
Can my tactile sense somehow enhance the way I can perceive direction of vibration?
Can I triangulate where a sound come from if I put both my limb away from each other thus creating five point checker (1 point at head that include both ear, 1 point at each hand and leg) which I could triangulate from any of them?
If I can do this, then I would probably want to calculate how far the sound is.
I would also want to add remembering about various language and computer knowledge (that includes programming and hardware) in my practice on Cycle 1 slot.
Is there anything new that Lelach told me this past month?
Have King (or God) answered my prayer in any way this past month?
If anything new that I have done bears no fruit and I feel nothing comes out of it even if I try again then I will practice as usual until something significant comes up.
That's difficult to gauge, given that it's only been about two weeks that you've been attempting to track this sort of thing. Sometimes you think you've stayed up for a longer stretch and other times that you've grown tired or fallen asleep much more quickly than you anticipated. A lot of your energy is going into simply growing. There's also not much you can use for a timepiece, except counting pulsepounds, and it's difficult for you to know whether Lelach's heart sounds as fast as it is or whether it is actually faster and your own heart's accelerated rate is making it seem slower by comparison.Do I feel that my ability to stay awake becomes much longer averagely?
Incidentally, you only manage to connect to Lelach about three to four times in ten attempts, so I'm assuming you mean times that you attempt to contact her, not times that you succeed, as your measure. Still, it's enough information to suggest that you're spending between two thirds and four fifths of your time asleep, even as your awake stretches get longer. That means with ten minute stretches you're awake between twenty-four and forty-eight times in a day. Lelach is sometimes going to be asleep when you attempt to contact her, and you don't reach her mind at those times, which explains some of the failures.
Only the pulse pounding around you, which is a comforting rhythmic lullaby much of the time.Have I heard any sound clearly yet?
Your arms are not long enough to reach your back, and the near weightless sensation of the biosphere removes any real sense of balance, so it's difficult to know what's there.Can I feel wings growing on my back or something?
Indeed it can. It requires that you struggle to reach between your legs, but given several attempts you're bound to succeed eventually. You are a boy.Can my gender be differentiated now using touch or something?
It might, but not in this present environment, since the overwhelming vibration is the pulse that completely surrounds you on all sides.Can my tactile sense somehow enhance the way I can perceive direction of vibration?
That might also work, but you find that the effort to put all four limbs where you want them is beyond what your body can at this point manage--you can put one hand or one foot where you want it, but when you turn your attention to another, the first drifts back in toward the center of your body.Can I triangulate where a sound come from if I put both my limb away from each other thus creating five point checker (1 point at head that include both ear, 1 point at each hand and leg) which I could triangulate from any of them?
Give me a quick background on your computer skills so I can add them to your sheet. Include any computer languages in which you've done programming, your skill levels in these, and what you've done with hardware.I would also want to add remembering about various language and computer knowledge (that includes programming and hardware) in my practice on Cycle 1 slot.
They are entering the tree for the winter soon, and expect that you will be born in the spring.Is there anything new that Lelach told me this past month?
You have the clear impression that you are important here, because you understand humans, and if you can also understand sprites you might be able to save them.Have King (or God) answered my prayer in any way this past month?
Over the next week you discover that you can reach your hand to your mouth, and that you have a thumb which fits nicely into the mouth, and that sucking on this is oddly comforting--as is swallowing the amniotic fluid in which you are adrift. You also discover that the muscles that operate your lungs work, and you are beginning to inhale and exhale the liquid around you. This does not cause choking, because you are not relying on your respiration system for air. Also, when you touch your upper lip with your thumb, you feel it, and move the lip in response.
You've also wrapped your hand around your genitalia when you were looking for them, and around another object which comes out of your belly and has no feeling in it. The grasp is a reflex: your hand closes when anything touches the palm. You also have distinct tactile sensation now, not perfect or complete but definitely present.
--M. J. Young
As the baby grows bigger, the mother's heart rate should be faster to accommodate the needs of the baby.
That means with ten minute stretches you're awake between twenty-four and forty-eight times in a day.
So I have about 4 to 8 hours per day of consciousness.
That gives me a clearer view on how to manage my time.
You are a boy.
Yay.
So my motor skills and coordination are still not good enough. I have to exercise often to familiarize myself with this body.
Give me a quick background on your computer skills so I can add them to your sheet.
Software related:
Usual: C++, Java, Javascript, PHP, Matlab, Visual Basic and maybe a few more (I really need enhanced memory recollection to remember).
Seldom used, just playing or only theory: Action Script, Perl, Prolog (for AI), BASIC and several others. Just need the manual and tutorial to get the feel for new programming language.
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Hardware related:
Usual: VHDL to program FPGA (such as making a scientific calculator), computer repair.
Seldom used, done when in training or only theory: PCB, electrical stuff such as servomotor and others.
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Both software and hardware: Maybe something related to virtual or augmented reality (thus how I got into this game). Integration of various knowledge known including hardware interface, mapping, object recognition and visual augmentation.
They are entering the tree for the winter soon, and expect that you will be born in the spring.
Probably 4 to 6 months for my birth then.
Change in practice menu:
If I sense Lelach is asleep when I tried telepathy then I will exercise my limb to make my movement coordination much better.
If she wakes up because of my movement then I know that she can felt it.
After long period of communication, did Lelach change her view on anything before such as her view on mind reading or dreaming?
If she does then maybe I will do something else.
If not then I will practice as usual until I have sufficient control of my body to do what I wanted or something significant changes inside or outside the womb.
Lelach has come to accept that her remarkable unborn child has these unusual abilities; she is uncomfortable with them herself, and has no wish to learn or use them.
Your body is fuzzy, covered with some sort of hair or light fur. You are beginning to feel this with your fingers. There is also now some hair on your head, although your arms are not long enough to reach more than the edges.
Your exercise is challenging, but you feel that it is benefiting you.
--M. J. Young
Your body is fuzzy, covered with some sort of hair or light fur. You are beginning to feel this with your fingers. There is also now some hair on your head, although your arms are not long enough to reach more than the edges.
This might mean that my tactile sense is more sensitive now.
Can I put my limb away from each other?
Putting aside whether I can put my limb away from each other or not (but if I can it surely helps), can I try 5 point sound direction checker again where I concentrate my tactile sense of each of my fingers (hand/foot) and hearing to locate voice from outside the womb?
If I succeed then I will do something else.
If I failed but I think I can succeed with it then I will try again.
If I think it is still not time to do it then I will resume practice as usual.
You still are not able to control more than one limb at a time, and those you are not controlling pull back in toward the center of your body into what you might recognize as "fetal position". It takes great effort to move them despite the fact that they are all weightless, as your muscles are still very undeveloped.
I know what's got me uncertain about this five-point sound direction skill: you're doing several things at once, and I need to sort them out.
First, you want to detect vibrations on your skin in such a way that you can process them as sound, presumably by routing the data to your audio processing center.
Second, you want to do this in such a way that you are receiving at least four distinct tactile audio signals, and keep them discrete--one from each hand, one from each foot, such that your mind is processing audio from each as it does from each ear, plus processing the audio reaching your ears as two more signals.
Third, you want to integrate these four new signals into your stereo direction sense such that you can triangulate the point of origin of the sound. This of course is complicated by the fact that the four new points are not in fixed positions relative to each other or to your ears, and so you would have to compensate for that--and the fact that you are incredibly tiny at the moment, so small that the unstretched uterus of a maybe twelve inch tall female is cavernously vast around you.
If this is what you are attempting, we'll build the skill and roll for it; you might, however, consider working up to it by first attempting to process audio with your skin, then attempting to distinguish multiple areas of your skin, and finally to use that to triangulate the position of the sound. But as I say, you can attempt to do it all at once, if that's your preference.
--M. J. Young
How is my practice with focus auditory sense to hear voice?
Any luck with it thus far?
I would like to do five-point sound direction skill step by step and later on try combining it.
The sound to focus on in the practice session is the Lelach's heart beat so I can locate her heart. (This will help to determine my relative position to Lelach.)
I will try to process the sound vibration with only one focus point at a time.
I will try this until I get the hang of it for each point (or 2 points at least).
If I manage to do it then I will try more than one point at once and try to distinguish it.
If I succeed then I will try to calculate the direction of the sound based on the time between each signal.
If I think the above need some practice then I will allocate Cycle 4 for it.
I will also include learning to focus my auditory sense to hear Lelach heart beat in this cycle as one of the point that will be used in the five-point sound direction skill.
In Cycle 1, I would also like to explore my mind if I can do something new. With the enhanced memory recollection, I will map what happens with my mind and what I have done to trigger it so my learning process would become faster or more efficient.
If I remember self-hypnosis recording about feeling good or about succeeding in life, does this counts as a practice of self suggestion or is it treated just like ordinary knowledge?
I would want to tell Lelach that her baby's gender is male.
I wonder what she and Morani would name their baby as so I will ask Lelach about it.
Does the name Lelach and Morani has a meaning or something in spritish language?
Is it winter yet?
Are there anyone else beside us (Morani included) who will be living inside the tree during winter (because more sprite equals more heat)?
What is the activity done inside the tree during winter?
If I succeed in five-point sound direction skill then I will do something else.
If not, I will practice with the modified practice menu until something significant happens.
The voices are all much too muffled and distant to get clearly at all. The nearest one, presumably Lelach's, is directly behind the loudest sound source in your environment. Others are barely recognizable as voice, and some might be bird call or something else. Part of that, too, is that your hearing is still developing--you can hear, but it's going to take time for you to hear well.
The sound to focus on in the practice session is the Lelach's heart beat so I can locate her heart. (This will help to determine my relative position to Lelach.)
I will try to process the sound vibration with only one focus point at a time.
I am taking this to mean that you will begin with something like your right hand, and attempt to feel the vibrations with that hand and process them in your brain as audio.
Your attempt does not succeed; this seems to be beyond what you can do with your present understanding of mental process.
Even trying to find the direction of the heartbeat with just your ears proves very difficult, given that the sound seems to come from everywhere at once, and your ability to sort it out is still extremely limited.
If I remember self-hypnosis recording about feeling good or about succeeding in life, does this counts as a practice of self suggestion or is it treated just like ordinary knowledge?
I'm not certain what it is to which you are referring. If this is something that shows you how self-hypnosis is done, it would be an example at the skill ability level of the person who made the recording; I would have to know something about him to know what sort of bonus that would grant you. If this is something you recorded and used for self-hypnosis in the past, that would suggest that you already have this skill and we should discuss your own skill ability level with it and how it works. If this is an instructional on how to do hypnosis, I might give you either an instructor bonus or an example bonus, depending on several factors. So in short, I need more information.
On one of your practice contacts with Lelach you inform her that you are indeed a boy. She says that Morani will be happy with that, as he hopes to have a son. They haven't really talked about a name yet, but your family name will be Theian (sounds like THAY-ann), and she likes the name Morach (sounds like more-ROCK, but with a bit more of the deeper gutteral harshness as in the German pronunciation of Bach) which is like Morani (more-RONN-nee) and Lelach (leh-LOCK, but again with a touch of the gutteral), so it will probably be Theian something Morach. Your father's name is Theian Alanda (uh-LAN-duh) Morani, and your mother's is Theian Orlina (or-LEEN-uh) Lelach. Names probably do have meanings, but no one really thinks about what they mean and she's never asked about them. She thinks that rather intelligent of you to ask, though, as she never thought about it. Her name means her, and Morani's name means him, and that was all she ever considered about them.
It is not yet winter.
Mostly sprites sleep and eat and try to stay warm inside their trees during the winter. You're probably right that more sprites would mean more heat, but it would also mean that they would have to pack in more food and have a larger home, and a smaller home is easier to keep warm.
--M. J. Young
Your attempt does not succeed; this seems to be beyond what you can do with your present understanding of mental process.
If I think it is beyond what I can do now, then I will keep this skill in mind to try later on. (Can synesthesia be an example for altered sensation?)
I will practice with what I think I can do now to get better at it.
I am not too sure but I think the self hypnosis recording (that includes instruction and suggestion example) are done by psychologist who specializes in hypnotherapy. I also have done some research on hypnosis but have not tried it myself at least as far as I can remember. This is because hypnosis and lucid dreaming is part of my plan to make virtual reality experience more vivid.
I wonder if the virtual reality machine I used prior to this journey have memory alteration system that use hypnosis to make the game more vivid. I also wonder if it makes the player feel that the player is the character in the game but for the play-tester this effect might be reduced to change only certain memories. If this is true, usually the memory are re-altered after the game is finished. This might explain why the verser is being 'zygoted' because the scriff do not have a clear impression of the person original form.
I will suggest the name Theian Orlanda Morach (a.k.a. TOM which means twin in Greek) to Lelach.
A home with different compartment would be good. One compartment is for living thus keeping the optimum heat and the other is for food thus keeping the food cold so it will last longer.
How does sprite keep their body clean?
Did they use wet fabric or something to wipe off impurities?
Do sprite ever take bath or something?
I will practice with what I think I can do for now until something significant changes. I will record my progress using enhanced memory recollection that I practiced in Cycle 1.
It may be simply because my brain is jugging too many things, but I am not managing to connect "synthesis" with anything relevant here. To what are you referring?Can synthesis be an example be an example for altered sensation?
From what you describe of the self-hypnosis recording, I would suggest it is probably an example, which would bonus your ability to learn that skill.
Lelach likes "Orlanda", and says that in a few months she'll suggest it to Rani and see what he thinks. You know, though, that men like to think they came up with their sons' names, so she's going to have to approach this carefully.
It would be difficult to find a tree with two connected hollows like that. Using the food to help insulate the walls and doorway helps that, though, because the food stays cooler against the outer walls and the room stays warmer for it.
Sprites bathe in streams and ponds, or sometimes fly through rainclouds, to wash.
Your body is becoming noticeably more solid as the bones begin to form. Another two weeks have passed, and Lelach says she is just beginning to show on the outside.
--M. J. Young
It may be simply because my brain is jugging too many things, but I am not managing to connect "synthesis" with anything relevant here. To what are you referring?
I know you would ask about that.
What I am referring to is 'synesthesia' and not 'synthesis'.
Taken from wikipedia:
Synesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.
For more info:
Wikipedia: Synesthesia
I also thought that tactile to sound is one of the most basic human perception.
The example for this include checking for other person heart beat or pulse through touch.
For more information, you can google for Tactile sound or vibroacoustics.
I would want to give you more than one link in one post but I think it would be considered as spam; so better be safe than sorry.
First, I will meditate then I will attempt self hypnosis with feeling good suggestion.
The effect of this suggestion is the feeling of happiness and can alleviate pain if any present. I will practice this in Cycle 5.
I would also like to hear Morani suggestion on the baby's name.
If Morani suggests Toreinu (sounds like Train that is said in Japanese) as my character middle name then probably I will make it as one of my character nickname.
This can help Lelach with her negotiation with Morani about the baby's name.
If you interested, Orlanda takes root from Spanish version of Roland (Old German) that means renowned land.
Sprites bathe in streams and ponds, or sometimes fly through rainclouds, to wash.
Do sprites clean themselves in winter?
If they do so, then how did they do it?
Did they use wet or dry fabric to wipe off impurities?
Did winter arrive already?
Lelach says she is just beginning to show on the outside.
Can Lelach feel my movement now (because of her current shape)?
If she can, then ask her if she can sense my movement through her hand. (Probably another example of tactile sound.)
If she can feel my movement with her hand then I will do something else, otherwise I will practice with my new practice menu until something significant happens.
And I see you went back and corrected the original post with the new word. Yes, I am familiar with synesthesia. Are you saying that you have experienced synesthesia in some form, or merely that you know that it exists and what it is? If the latter, that would not be an example of anything you could copy, because you don't really know how it works to copy it (it would be different if, for example, you were telepathically studying the workings of the mind of someone experiencing synesthesia, in which case you would have an example of whatever was happening in his mind). If the former, I'll have to know a lot more about the synesthesia experience you have had to know for what, if anything, it might serve as an example. I note that the experience is involuntary, so you don't know how to do it even if it's happened to you; and that you are not in the body which did it, so there is some question as to whether you can study the memory of the experience (maybe, maybe not), but one thing at a time.
You do learn the self-hypnosis, which gives you a positive perhaps euphoric feeling.
It is actually four more weeks before Lelach can feel you. That's also how long it is before Morani is persuaded that she is actually pregnant. She says she could see it sooner, but he couldn't.
You are now contacting the walls when you move, and she can sometimes feel this, particularly when you push or hit hard. The walls are soft and somewhat flexible, and the cord running from your belly attaches to a point on that wall. You also now can feel which way is up--or more precisely, which way is down, and you tend to sink to the bottom.
When you are not communicating telepathically with Lelach, you often hear her voice, apparently talking to you. It has a sing-song sound when she speaks to you, different from the voice she uses in speaking with Morani. Sometimes you hear his voice, also with a touch of sing-song to it and louder and closer than otherwise, apparently encouraged by Lelach to talk to you. He doesn't do it for long.
Periodically you get bounced up into the fluid and drift back down again, usually when something pushes on the outside. You also find the swaying and bouncing sensation of the containment very soothing, and it puts you to sleep frequently. Sometimes when you bump into the wall, something pushes back a moment later.
Your arms are now long enough to reach most of your head.
Lelach and Morani have entered the tree and sealed it for the winter. No, they do not wash during this time, and they do not eat nearly as much. Winter came at the anticipated time.
--M. J. Young
I have not edited the spelling for synesthesia. That is why I am surprised when you use synthesis when quoting me.
Did you re-type my sentence or do you copy and paste it?
If the former is true then it is probably another example of temporary synesthesia in the form of similar words which one connects one word to another.
If the latter is true then probably the spell checker change it accidentally (but I found there is no synthesis on the option to correct synesthesia but my spell checker might be different from yours) or I forgot that I edited the post.
It is really weird if I edited it though because I have mentioned synesthesia before. See page 2 on my ramblings on temporary synesthesia. (A post a week ago cannot be edited right?)
The link can be found here and it would be easier if I quote myself so here goes:
There are also other example of signal processing such as temporary synesthesia where I combine one trait to another such as certain behavior/personality/presence to color, certain action/intent to repulsive feeling, certain equation to right/wrong feeling and others.
Temporary synesthesia rely on human imagination to connect the pathway artificially. This is because I have read an article on how to artificially copy a synesthesia person through the power of imagination.
Euphoric feeling can make pain more bearable because when someone is happy they release natural pain soothing neurohormone called dopamine.
For more info:
Wikipedia: Dopamine
If I know which way is down then I can probably know Lelach current posture if the connection to her mind is located near the brain.
Is the connection to her mind located up?
If it is located sideways then probably she is lying down.
She is probably trying to sleep in this position and if my telepathy does not connect in practice when she is in this position then I can confirm this notion (if it connects then I will ask her if she is lying down and if she is then it will also confirm this notion).
I will ask Lelach what the sing-song is all about.
Is this a song to entertain baby or such?
Is it in sprite language (spritish)?
Can she tell me more about it?
Can I taste anything yet as I inhale the fluid around me all the time?
If I can, then I will remember how it taste like for future reference.
If I meditate when I am touching my head, will it make my meditation work more effectively? Like focusing your mental energy to the head or something?
If I can hear Morani voice then I will meditate first then try to tag his mind for reference using what I have learned thus far (including checking for general direction of voice, finding mind that is as strong as Lelach's but not hers, or asking for divine guidance to guide me to Morani's mind so that I could understand the sprite more).
He could not be far because of the winter tree and trying to talk or sing to me right?
That will limit the search.
Mind tagging would be like someone trying to make a miss call to you (such as connecting through telepathy then immediately disconnect or mind reading what you have already know about the person such as the name then disconnect).
This means that after I got Morani's mind frequency I will not attempt to read his mind for more information unless he consents to it.
Will doing this boost my chance of success to search for his mind frequency?
No, they do not wash during this time, and they do not eat nearly as much.
This might mean that their digestive system is more efficient than human.
Do sprite have any waste product?
Is light production on their body a side effect of not having to excrete waste product like human?
I will try to search for Morani's mind whenever I hear his voice or I feel that he is very close (because maybe I can feel his presence by now).
If I succeed in tagging his mind then I will do something else, otherwise practice as usual until something significant happens.
I hope the curve I thrown at you makes you explore more possibilities of this game. I learn a lot from it and I hope that you did too. Sorry if I cause any inconveniences though. Keep up the good work.
Although for initial telepathic contact you have to know the exact position of the target individual, having contact does not give you position or direction.
Think of it this way: if you can see a radio tower and want to know the frequency of the transmission from that tower, you can focus a radio frequency detector on that location and run the dial until you get a reading, which you can then tune in on the radio. Once you know the frequency, you simply set the radio for that frequency and receive it. In the same way, there would be a skill to determine the location of a mind, but telepathy and mind reading are not such skills.
You can tell when she moves, though.
Lelach is not aware that she is using some kind of sing-song, but when you push it, she gets embarrassed. "I don't know," she replies. "It's how people talk to babies. Everybody does it that way."
If you give some thought to interactions you have observed between adults and infants, you should recognize that they always have this feature about them. Interestingly, that same sing-song sound is used by adults speaking to infants in every language and culture on Earth. As far as I know, this phenomenon has not been explained.
It is a feature of olfactory and gustational senses that they acclimate to background information. You do not taste or smell the fluid because it is there all the time; you would only taste things that are different--such as your thumb, which is only a little different.
In your attempt to find Morani, you think you've got him once, but instead tap back into Lelach.
--M. J. Young
Interestingly, that same sing-song sound is used by adults speaking to infants in every language and culture on Earth. As far as I know, this phenomenon has not been explained.
I believe it's been shown (but don't ask me to cite specific studies) that this manner of speech makes it easier for the listener to parse a continuous soundstream into individual phonemes (tested on adult listeners hearing a language with which they had no prior experience, like ancient Mayan). The sing-song quality also eases perception of intonation and pitch contour, which can be important for dividing the soundstream into phrases and words.
Given that, the benefit of such an instinct is evident, which shifts the question into the realm of "why are we naturally inclined to do beneficial things?" - a larger question which we all have our own opinions on.
Lelach is not aware that she is using some kind of sing-song, but when you push it, she gets embarrassed. "I don't know," she replies. "It's how people talk to babies. Everybody does it that way."
So that is what that sing-song all about.
In your attempt to find Morani, you think you've got him once, but instead tap back into Lelach.
Wrong target I guess as I laugh at myself.
This situation makes me remember about detecting material a few months back.
I would like to modify the skill a bit.
First, use the mental energy from meditation to pass through object using arching hand signals (which signify the range and direction). The mental energy will be exchanged alternatingly between each hand to transmit mental energy and receive feedback signal of the pattern of object so that the pattern of the object may be recognized through comparison to known pattern.
Will the meditation of this skill be treated separately or is it included as the same skill?
Can psychometry (whether in real life or fiction) and the past failed attempt be taken as an example of this skill?
I wonder if I can detect any fabric (such as what Lelach wears) using the modified skill.
If I think I can do it then I will practice using it in Cycle 6 and do something else, otherwise I will practice normally until something significant happens.