What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[EndOfTheEarth]

I don't recall the specifics enough to debate the first one.

 

But as for the second one, it wouldn't kill your brain at all, because your real, biological self remains the same. Think of it like Lucy et. al in Narnia: when you leave narnia, the experience stays, but because the real you frozen in time, you don't physically age. Alternately, it's like having a dream about solving Unified Field Theory; it makes perfect sense to you in the dream, but you don't expend the same amount of real-life energy to compare.

[Fake]

No, what I mean is: Your brain doesn't work that fast. Your brain /can't/ work that fast.

 

Let's say you're stuck in a dream state for ten years, and it happens in nine hours. One year is 8760 hours. 8760 times ten is 87600. 87600/9=9.733.333 et cetera. In other words, your brain would be working at over nine thousand times the speed when you're awake.

 

Let me reiterate, as I think it is neccesary at this point.

 

Over. Nine. Thousand. Times.

 

Ok, maybe it's possible. Maybe the human brain is holding out on us because evolution killed off all the people spending several thousand calories a minute with their thinking. But it goes beyond that.

 

The protagonist spent five times that in limbo.

 

Unless he literally spent fifty hours unconscious, this means that the human brain at about fifty thousand times it's regular speed.

 

What. The. Hell.

 

Your brain would explode.

 

And don't get me started on the eternity in limbo. Please, don't.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Exactly, that's because your brain isn't working that fast.

Rather, a dream is like a narrative; time isn't given for all the little details, bathroom breaks, and so on, less so for more involved tasks. The earlier level you are on, you get more detail, but later on you get less. This explains why the first level was very complicated, the second level was convince a guy and navigate a hotel, and the last one was enter a building. Limbo itself is vague and impressionistic with little time and hardly any exposition. In doing so the brain can work at normal speed, but construct a narrative that works in the time given.

[Fake]

I meant perception of time, not the details. And limbo was implied to be experiencing an eternity while aware of time passing at an extremely depressed rate.

[Mudkip]

I just tried to make an igloo in a tall snow drift.

 

It didn't work. 

[EndOfTheEarth]

Wow...

http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/forum/topics/valentine-who-is-she

Is DZ in on it? I'm losing track of the alts again.

[Omega]

I don't think so.

[EndOfTheEarth]

:D

All the better then. I was hoping something like this would happen.

[Omega]

Yeah, it's nice when things click unexpectedly....

 

By the way, on a whim, I googled up "William Pruitt headmaster" since other people were googling names.... anyway, came across an article about a guy who was called Bill Pruitt, accused of abusing boarding school children in the 60's and 70's.

 

Will crow appropriately on the MDW thread.

[EndOfTheEarth]

I'll probably point out that SOF took place 2005 and 2006, but hey, go for it. It means more posts and more attention.

[nathan_p]

Nope, she isn't. 

 

However, this did make me laugh like an idiot and bang my fist on the desk:

 

"My alternate theory: She's the love child of ter Borcht."

 

I'm dead, that's all, good night.

[Xuut]

omg. I love Hyperbole and a Half. SO amazing.