My last post was not quite what I meant. I think the test does all it can to convince them that it is real, and usually succeeds, but they know it isn't reality, if that makes any sense. It really sounds like a lucid dream of sorts.
Because it's a virtual reality that uses some form of psychoanalysis to determine what each girls greatest fears and desires are, and then uses those to try and keep them from leaving. If it can use a girls fears to get them to run away from the silvery arch, it will. If it can use their desires to make them want to stay, it will.
I think if I had to go through the thing, I'd come out with some pretty strong emotions, and joy would probably not be one of them.
I don't know what it was used for in the AoL. Perhaps it was used as a diagnostic tool in a mental health clinic. Perhaps it was an entertainment center, where customers without the dreamwalking ability could have some fun in a version of TAR.
I guess the Tower thinks that getting girls to go through it and come back out proves that the girl can overcome their fears, or has enough self-control to put aside their desires and overcome temptation.
And I wonder what exactly all the Aes Sedai that run the test are doing. Are they simply generators, who power the thing? Or do the weaves that they put in the thing make a difference?
why are the girls all crying and sobbing when they have to wake up?
Because it's a virtual reality that uses some form of psychoanalysis to determine what each girls greatest fears and desires are, and then uses those to try and keep them from leaving. If it can use a girls fears to get them to run away from the silvery arch, it will. If it can use their desires to make them want to stay, it will.
I think if I had to go through the thing, I'd come out with some pretty strong emotions, and joy would probably not be one of them.
I don't know what it was used for in the AoL. Perhaps it was used as a diagnostic tool in a mental health clinic. Perhaps it was an entertainment center, where customers without the dreamwalking ability could have some fun in a version of TAR.
I guess the Tower thinks that getting girls to go through it and come back out proves that the girl can overcome their fears, or has enough self-control to put aside their desires and overcome temptation.
And I wonder what exactly all the Aes Sedai that run the test are doing. Are they simply generators, who power the thing? Or do the weaves that they put in the thing make a difference?
"And it breaks my heart to look around, and see the unimpressed; who can't believe the emperor is dressed"~Fastball
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I think the Amayar are the stupidest people ever
30/06/2010 08:52:45 PM
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yeah, I despise fanatics of any type
30/06/2010 09:44:08 PM
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Can't agree with all of those.
30/06/2010 10:58:25 PM
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Yeah, I disagree too...
01/07/2010 02:28:13 AM
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Re: Yeah, I disagree too...
01/07/2010 03:20:30 AM
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I'm not sure.
01/07/2010 03:45:44 AM
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Difficult to say.
01/07/2010 05:09:46 AM
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Curse you, I had to go look up Nynaeve's Testing.
01/07/2010 06:20:06 PM
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Nope, still can't agree.
01/07/2010 06:40:25 PM
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I'm not going to argue that it's a good test
01/07/2010 08:51:31 PM
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Re: I'm not going to argue that it's a good test
01/07/2010 10:26:24 PM
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IMO, they do.
02/07/2010 12:22:41 AM
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Okay different angle,
02/07/2010 12:27:57 AM
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Re: Okay different angle,
03/07/2010 08:29:09 PM
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Re: Okay different angle,
03/07/2010 09:28:20 PM
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You really don't remember your dreams very often?
03/07/2010 11:41:57 PM
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Haven't since I was a wee little kid.
04/07/2010 12:54:11 AM
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Chipping in...
04/07/2010 01:11:26 AM
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Re: Chipping in...
04/07/2010 02:44:21 AM
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Fair enough
01/07/2010 08:53:05 AM
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Human beings have a pretty large capacity for "stupid" behavior
30/06/2010 09:47:27 PM
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I'm certain that RJ based it off of something in real life
30/06/2010 10:30:06 PM
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Perhaps.
30/06/2010 10:23:42 PM
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IMO that makes them even worse!
30/06/2010 10:33:03 PM
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Considering that their system of belief...
30/06/2010 11:55:12 PM
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But they could have played a part Singing, just like the Tinkers to which they're related may do *NM*
01/07/2010 09:08:46 AM
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Because their feeble ability to sing to crops would really come in handy.
01/07/2010 05:43:03 PM
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There are other SOngs than seed-singing.
01/07/2010 06:26:54 PM
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Even if there are. They've been lost. And humanity has lost that Talent.
01/07/2010 10:28:30 PM
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the Tinkers will at least make themselves useful as we saw in the BoEF
01/07/2010 03:49:08 PM
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to be fair, if I were an Amayar I would try to respawn as well *NM*
01/07/2010 04:29:02 AM
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You know...
01/07/2010 06:42:41 PM
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But something of you still contiunes on.
01/07/2010 10:30:12 PM
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Indeed
01/07/2010 10:37:03 PM
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None of the Forsaken will pay for their crimes?
01/07/2010 10:54:30 PM
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