Dreamwalking Thesis

The Dreamwalking Thesis is a research paper that was jointly written by Maria Martines, Elvira Martines, Tsuki Fujiwara and Kilroy Roberts and published in 1004 ADW. The goal of the paper was to provide a unifying explanation between dreamwalking and more traditionally studied magic.

Outside of Swen, dreamwalking was largely considered a novelty as due to the lack of a strong connection to the Tree of Dreams at the time, a dreamwalker could do barely much more than visiting someone's dreams which would eventually cease to exist when someone woke up. With the dreams of the people of Swen remaining preserved within the Tree of Dreams, it invited a new frontier although it was still underutilized as few had the know-how of using the blue sap to properly dreamwalk and channel the energies required to be a viable alternative to ekati.

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The paper illustrates that the fundamental component of the dream worlds is the presence of information. That is, a mortal with a soul could generate these worlds because of the electrical impulses in their brain. Similarily, worlds within electronics could also be generated due to its electrical impulses. The more powerful the soul, the more detailed these worlds would become. As a result, the Second Rupture was deemed to have been caused not by a random supernatural event, but rather, the rapid communication of thoughts and emotions facilitated by the invention of MagiNet. That is, more spirits - both light and dark - were generated as a result of the world's collective emotions being much more unified.

The paper also covered the topic of blue sap, the substance originating from the Tree of Dreams by defining where it came from and how it was generated. It recounts many of the secret experiments done during the Acheron War on blue sap-powered machines both created by humans and by the Zula.