>>36706206The relation of the metaphysics system to dreams is very under-developed, so we're kind of treading new ground. But the QRD on it is that the Heavenly Realm can be seen a server, which serves magic to clients.
The clients take the form of chuubanite, and magic entities.
All beings have at least a tiny fraction of themselves in the Heavenly Realm; call it their soul if you want.
Since dreams have a precedent for being used to communicate things with the Heavenly Realm, I think it's fair to say a dream can be an opportunity for a Soul to connect to the Heavenly Realm.
The challenge when trying to share a dream with someone would be how to connect to their Soul. If the two Souls are separate, there is no way they could find one another in the immense Heavenly Realm.
So as you say, chuubanite (which can act as a client for the Heavenly Realm server) can be used here to connect the two dreaming Souls, essentially creating a Local Network which connects to the Heavenly Realm. I think that works well!
A possibility for sharing a dream at a distance: one of the dreamers would need to be infused with a lot of conceptual energy, so that once they connect to the Heavenly Realm, they emit a signal that can be picked up by another aware dreamer. That is perhaps how chuubas communicate divinations to their followers. In Vitubia, that might look like putting the dreamer in some kind of chuubanitic device (A dreaming throne?) or injecting them with a near lethal dose of chuubanite. There are parallels with /asp/otheosis.
For those two options, what you'd be doing would be sharing a dream, so you'd be able to exchange information on an even footing with other dreamers, perhaps use manipulation or gaslighting, but you'd have to play with the Heavenly Realm's rules. Forcing something on other dreamers would be a contest of willpower. If you had a more nefarious purpose and wanted to do more non-consensual things to the other dreamer, that's when you'd need to make the dreamer dream in your fake server that is under your control instead of the Heavenly Realm. That would be very high level chuubanitic oneiromancy though...
I kinda started ranting there, sorry. Do you think that makes sense? These concepts could probably be of use for the chuubanite lore in general. Also, I haven't seen you being cringe yet.
