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I was going to say this earlier, so here goes. In one xuanhuan novel I am now reading there is an interesting concept of a realm that’s more solid than normal. So a typical Earthly realm can be said to have some degree of susceptibility to magick. The more susceptible it is, the less solid we might say it is. So for the longest time I’ve been associating solidity with something kind of anti-magickal, something that stops magick. But in this xuanhuan novel I am reading there are some realms deliberately created to disallow any and all modifications to a degree more perfect than Earth. So the solidity in those realms is an almost platonicly-perfect, idealized solidity. They have stones which cannot be dented, for example, not by hammers and not by magick, unless one is on the same level as a being who established those realms.
After reading this I started thinking how the Earth is not actually all that solid. It crumbles when struck with a hammer, or bends. Plus on Earth inanimate things constantly change and decay in ways that are prevented in these funky super-solid realms.
So I started thinking how exercising one’s will in addition to making things more malleable can also make them less malleable. In retrospect this sounds like “duh”, but for the longest time I kept thinking how everything needs to be less solid, lol. I didn’t even consider how one might deliberately want to make something more solid by an act of will. Even more than it presently appears on Earth.
Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-07-07 17:57:04 (djw6qww)
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Originally commented by u/[deleted] on 2017-07-08 01:04:07 (djwkjlz)
Yup. Solidity is something I was used to seeing as an enemy, but I don’t see it as strictly an enemy anymore. I still think solidity is more often annoying than not for me personally. I didn’t realize I could deliberately make a realm that’s even much more enduring and stable than this Earthly one. Even if in practice I may not want to actually do that, I still think it’s good that I realized it, because I have a better understanding how limitless the mind is.
Another thing with regard to LD-ing, is that I think newbie LD-ers often lean toward the fantastical side, but the experienced LD-ers have experienced things like pain, or a sense of sleepiness, for example, in their dreams. (yea, imagine dreaming of being very sleepy… how often does that happen? For me this kind of absurdity became possible only after I learned to LD.) They’ve experienced how gritty and “real-seeming” the dreams can really be, down to the last detail.
Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-07-08 07:04:58 (djx58fr)