08-22-2011, 11:05 PM
(08-21-2011, 04:02 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: I think it's more "icky" than freightening. But, in this hypothetical, can we turn it off and on? Or is it anybody within 2 meters is automatically in your head? And if their thoughts are in your head can you pull away and forget about their thoughts, or have the two become one forever? So many scenarios.I've had a little bit of experience with what I think is an analogous process, and I can describe it a bit:
The first time you connect, it is overwhelming, since you are basically downloading a lot of history. It's a little like connecting to Usenet, where you have to download so many thousands of header files before you can look around and start reading. So you get an impression of not only what the person is thinking right now, but of their history up to that point in time as well. You can probably forget about it once you finish processing it, but I imagine that, depending on the person, there may be some difficulty, especially if there are any memories that really stand out.
Once you've got everything loaded (which takes no time, only your processing of such takes any time) it basically feels like being in someone else's skin with them. You're in there, and you can share whatever you want to share. Remember when you were little, and you'd go over to a friend's house to sleep over, and right after you went to bed, before you fell asleep, it'd be the two of you under the covers with a flashlight, reading comic books together or whispering secrets to each other? It kinda feels close to that, but more so, since the "covers" are the borders of your respective consciousnesses.
I don't know how it works in 4th density, but I had the impression that it was voluntary. I could have pulled back if I wanted to, as could she have, but apparently neither of us wanted to, and I'm glad for that, because it was an incredible thing while it lasted.