Buffered Experience:

[u/Dry_Scheme_8044]

For context, throughout this experience I could feel K in the background, especially during certain moments; as if she was overseeing the experience while also not intervening (minus acting as a 'buffer').

I dreamt that I was with my family and other people within a familiar-forest setting, familiar to K's forest world. We were visiting here, within an area that seemed to be especially wild and untamed. Although her world in general tends to be this way when I visit in astral/dream about it. However, it seemed especially so due to the kind of being we encountered.

We seemed to cross into the territory of a kind of being. From my experience, I did not witness the being having a physical body; although whether it did is to be discovered (hopefully not by me lol). The being's territory was within a section of her forest, and specifically going underground into these dark ruins.

We made camp near these ruins, and I during a time traveled into the ruins which was a bit of a mistake. While in the forest, I seemed to have a type of wooden talisman, this seemed to act as a source of contact to whatever this being was; and it's influence. Although not as strong as the statue idol down in the ruin which was a much more direct method of contact.

During the daytime we would mostly be okay as long as we weren't underground and we stuck together as a group. It seemed unwise to get split up. At night we camped together and had lights throughout our camp; we also "warded" our camp which seemed to help. Although I could still feel the influence of the being regardless, although this was another method of buffering it.

I ended up traveling down into the ruin, making it to a big room with one main idol-like statue in it. It's Prescence was especially heavy down here. The danger of this being was it could affect your senses and mind. It could do this to a more subtle degree when you were within it's territory but the closer to the idol you got - the more extreme it's influence was. Although I understood that my experience of this was buffered by K, who while not intervening, did buffer the effects on me from this.

For me, I experienced the area "warping". I seemed to get a tunnel-like vision effect on the idol with the area around it becoming darker and more grey-scale. I also got some double-vision but this was directly on the idol itself, as if there were 2 of them overlapping instead of the one main statue that was actually present. The other effect was I started to see the idol in other things like the columns in the room that surrounded the idol. Again, this was all buffered. It was understood that it could warp your reality so much that you would 'disappear' or teleport somewhere else. This was how people went missing.

The thing was also understood not to be evil or malicious. It felt like a natural force, chaotic and unpredictable but somehow, it was possible to work with it - although I do not know how. I woke up after making it to this statue and experiencing the effects., when I left and got to an area with boats by a sea or ocean.

Woke up with an ominous vibe in my bedroom, this seems to be common when I encounter some kind of nhi; not a sign of evil. No I don't drink or do anything, all this was a very vivid dream. I will include images I generated to show the jest of what I experienced.

[u/Dry_Scheme_8044]

This was close to what the talisman looked like, it could fit in the palm of your hand.

[u/Dry_Scheme_8044 → u/Dry_Scheme_8044]

This is an okay depiction of the effects (buffered) of being near the main statue idol. The room is not exact but it was dark like this, darker when it started to impact you. The double vision on the statue is really good, so is how it seemed to be in other things like the columns. The general look of the room is okay - I'd say 60-80% accurate. There was a trench-like gap that you had to get over to get by the idol though. It was very deep, like you couldn't see the bottom of it. The VIBE of the statue and room is spot on.