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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:04:59 JST clarity flowers

   My dream-self has been slowly acquiring magic powers over the last decade or so: telekinesis first (with certain rules and complications regulating its function), and now levitation (which still takes real concentration). This sense of dream-continuity (also: places which don't exist but recur frequently in dreams) is surreal, like there's this parallel reality. Sometimes I slip and forget which reality a memory comes from, or briefly expect to grab something telekinetically.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:12:49 JST clarity flowers

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     The specific way the telekinesis works is, it's like there are these invisible threads emanating from everything, and if I reach my hand out I can entangle it in these threads and yank an object elastically towards me. A very somatic thing, different than the stuff you see in Star Wars where you can precisely manipulate stuff.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:26:50 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     Dream flying can be one of the greatest joys but it exists in different varieties: the version that takes concentration or, worse, a feeling of physical effort (as if pedaling a bicycle etc.) is not worth it. Need some sort of dream therapist to encourage unconscious processes to dream the good kind.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:26:50 JST clarity flowers

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     • Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

     @richpuchalsky If I'm doing dream therapy improving the nature of how magic flight works is very low on my list of priorities lol. I'd prefer to focus on reducing the number of supernatural cataclysms and malignant architectural features

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 05:10:27 JST clarity flowers

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     • Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

     @richpuchalsky do you realize that you're being kind of an asshole right now

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 05:10:28 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     To each their own etc. Since we get cataclysms and malignant architecture in reality I'd rather more of the experience that reality can never bring