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Another common reason is a desire to escape one's own reality, to find something better or to create a new one shaped by one's desires. The idea that anyone can create and shape their own personal reality according to their whims and live like a king there or even become a god inside it can be very tempting.
 
Another common reason is a desire to escape one's own reality, to find something better or to create a new one shaped by one's desires. The idea that anyone can create and shape their own personal reality according to their whims and live like a king there or even become a god inside it can be very tempting.
   
 
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On the other hand, any imaginable horror and curse can also be found in there, in addition to the dangers of the Imaginarium itself so one should thread carefully even when dealing with an apparently valuable finding for it can turn out to be something else entirely. In practice one can imagine what one desires and it will be there but there is no guarantee that it will be in an easy to reach place. The more precious and valuable it is, the harder to find and obtain it will probably be, possibly even being surrounded by dangers of different types, traps, guardian creatures, etc, all probably taken from the unconscious mind of the one imagining them in the first place, possibly along with the many unconscious thoughts of others related to and close enough to have an effect on the result. Even the slightest seed of a doubt or a danger will contaminate the result therefore one requires the most extremely focused mind in order to create exactly what one desires without any flaws or drawbacks.
 
On the other hand, any imaginable horror and curse can also be found in there, in addition to the dangers of the Imaginarium itself so one should thread carefully even when dealing with an apparently valuable finding for it can turn out to be something else entirely. In practice one can imagine what one desires and it will be there but there is no guarantee that it will be in an easy to reach place. The more precious and valuable it is, the harder to find and obtain it will probably be, possibly even being surrounded by dangers of different types, traps, guardian creatures, etc, all probably taken from the unconscious mind of the one imagining them in the first place, possibly along with the many unconscious thoughts of others related to and close enough to have an effect on the result. Even the slightest seed of a doubt or a danger will contaminate the result therefore one requires the most extremely focused mind in order to create exactly what one desires without any flaws or drawbacks.
   

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The space of imagination. It is not a dimension, a realm, a world, a space, a void, a verse or a reality, it just is. It is not nothing either.

But calling it a space, or any other thing actually, will do. We must call it something in order to talk about it. It is a distinct weakness of our language that it has no words to describe the indescribable. Therefore all these words chosen to do so should be viewed only as imperfect metaphors at best.

Different cultures have named this thing differently and imagined it with very different properties. It has been named the astral sea, the beyond, chaos, the essence, the flow, the in-between, the magium, the mists, the nothing, the outside, the primordial chaos, the strange, the unreality, the unspace, the void, etc.

Position on the Omniumverse

It is one of the two essential parts of the Omniumverse, the other one being the Realium which stands in opposition to it.

While the Realium contains everything that is real, the Imaginarium contains everything that is not strictly real. This includes things that are just not real but also things that are both real and not real at the same time as well as things that are neither real nor not real or even things for which those properties don't even apply. Things that aren't even things, paradoxes, etc.

What it is

One could say that the Imaginarium is unreality, the sea of all possible and impossible elements of the imagination, maybe made of the stuff that imagination itself is made of, before being molded and given form by it.

Whenever anyone talks about the Imaginarium, it is assumed that they are talking about what could be called the Shallow Imaginarium, not the entirety of the Imaginarium. Unless otherwise stated, everything in this text applies to the Shallow Imaginarium specifically.

Its Nature

Its nature is that it has no true or real nature.

It has no laws of any kind governing it, physics or otherwise, and no physical substance at all. It is subjective in its essence, without any stability unless what ever is imposed upon it. It has no space and no time, no dimensions of any kind. It has no form or shape for a shape presumes some kind of space. The Imaginarium is a non-spacial space where exists all that "is not". It is not a space and it has no space but it can have many areas on which space exists, in one way or another. It doesn't have time either, but time can exist in many ways in many different areas inside it.

Attempts at defining it

It cannot be defined except in this weak way through nonsensical analogies and indirect references. It is not something that can be defined either by language, mathematics or logic of any kind. It transcends all those concepts, it transcends concepts and conceptualization itself. It includes all those concepts as well as all else that transcend them. Things don't have to make sense inside the Imaginarium and probably don't most of the time.

Whatever it is imagined or believed to be, its reality is more than that. Even indirect and infinitely recursive definitions or references are not enough to capture it. Nor is any other linguistic, logical or imaginary mechanism to do so. It's ultimate definition is that which cannot be defined.

Even the previous definition doesn't make it any justice though for it is beyond what can be imagined by anyone, real or imagined. It itself cannot be fully imagined in its entirety for any and all attempts just result in the stabilization of an area inside being defined in the way imagined.

Imaginarium is just a word that is being used to refer to it in a necessarily unsatisfactory manner.

Internal Structure

It cannot be said to have a overall structure. Despite that it is convenient to understand it as having different areas inside it, each with different properties. It is important to remember that this is just a metaphorical way of trying to understand it though, not its actual reality for it has no overall structure, except where it has one.

An area can be as large as it needs to be, from negative sizes to infinite sizes, transfinite, impossible size, no size at all, all of the above, none of the above or both at the same time. Also, each area can be subdivided into more areas inside it that can share some of the properties of the larger one or none at all. Each area can be infinitely divided in more areas and those in more areas and so on.

The areas inside can also contain the area containing them, can be larger than the area contained them, etc. Paradoxical definitions and impossible relations are not uncommon. This is how the Imaginarium contains itself infinitely many times for any of its areas can easily contain the whole of it or even more.

The Shallow Imaginarium is effectively one of these areas. The area we are most familiar with. The Deep Imaginarium is all the other areas along with everything not in the Shallow Imaginarium.

There isn't necessarily a noticeable change between one area and the next. It can be so gradual to the point of being unnoticeable by anyone but it can also be very sharp and drastic. What this means is that these areas aren't necessarily concrete things, they can be subjective, inconstant, mutable and unstable.

Properties

Despite being very hard to define in many ways, there are a few properties that can be attributed to it.

Permeable to Imagination

It is very permeable to and molded by imagination. Things that are imagined appear here somewhere and any thoughts at it will cause it to change according to it. Strong or persistent thoughts will cause some area to stabilize in the form imagined and remain that way for some time.

It could be said that even this description of it is only valid because it is being imagined this way. This is a valid description of what the Shallow Imaginarium is but not of the entire Imaginarium for nothing can be said that applies globally to it all.

Any thoughts, ideas or imaginations exist here and stay here somewhere wandering around and never truly disappearing. They just become weaker and weaker and move farther and farther away.

The more stable areas inside it are called Imaginatas. No matter how badly defined an area is, how chaotic or subjective, how contradictory or impossible, any seed of imagination, belief, thought, reasoning or any other similar process will just give birth to a new Imaginata.

The area surrounding an Imaginata, or the Realium for that matter, is mostly defined by the agglomeration of all thoughts, ideas, beliefs and fantasies of the people from that place. But what shapes it strongly is what people believe it to be. If they imagine it as a chaotic sea of colors than that's probably what it will be or look like. It is also common for each area of it to function more or less like the world it surrounds for that is what people in that world are familiar with and what they will expect. Therefore whatever laws govern such a world, laws of physics or something else, will also tend to apply to some extent in the area of the Imaginarirum surrounding that world. Despite all that, entering it can still be very confusing at the minimum or extremely dangerous at the worst case.

Subjective

Any area is usually defined by what the people closer to it think or believe about it.

If contradictory beliefs exist the close by area will be defined by those as well without any problems and will itself become contradictory in nature. It is also possible that the same area will be very different to different observers if each one imagines it to be something different. Sometimes an area ends up as the result of a mixture of all the multiple imaginations, sometimes it ends up being a different thing for each observer, sometimes something in between.

Even its subjectivity is subjective. Even its permeability to imagination is alterable by said imagination. It is subjectively subjective, not objectively subjective.

Not analyzable

It is possible to speculate that by analyzing the Imaginatas, their behavior and properties one analyzes the properties of the Imaginarium itself, even if in an indirect way. This idea postulates that the behavior and even existence of the Imaginatas are the direct result of some property or properties of the Imaginarium. This would seem logic at first sight but unfortunately logic does not apply to the Imaginarium at all.

It is probably ideas like these that cause a very large area of the Imaginarium, which is easily confused with its entirety as we tend to do ourselves, to behave in the way described here. This is the area called the Shallow Imaginarium.

Other areas probably behave very differently and present very different properties, maybe with Imaginatas behaving differently, having different types of Imaginatas, a different type of things, or maybe nothing at all. It is not actually possible to know for knowing is also imagining and imagining creates Imaginatas. It is a cycle and a contradiction at the same time that knowing the Imaginarium creates what is known about it. It is not possible to say what comes first, what is known or what is knowable for only that cycle exists. Both things come first and both come second.

The larger body of the Imaginarium is even less defined than these areas and there is a real risk that by talking about we are already defining just another larger area instead of talking about the whole. It is important to remember that, by definition, the Imaginarium cannot be defined, that is its fundamental property. Actually, its fundamental property is that it has no fundamental property. Actually, its fundamental property is the contradiction in that sentence. And it refuses to allow some property, even a fundamental one, to define it in any way. Whenever a property or definition is found that applies to it, it is immediately shown to be just another larger Imaginata area inside it instead. Just so, just because.

Its Contents

All the worlds of imagination and fiction exist here. All our thoughts, dreams, ideas, beliefs, everything we reason, talk about or conceptualize.

These are all Imaginatas and they exist here like stars and galaxies exist on the Universe, like islands exist on the sea, like air bubbles in water, like dust particles in the wind. Large or small, they exist in all types and forms. Some are Universes, Multiverses or even larger, some are entire Cosmologies like those presented here, some are single galaxies, solar systems, even isolated planets or just smaller parts of them like small rocks floating in the void of chaos that surrounds them. They can even be as small as a single city, a building, a single room or even smaller.

They can have any form as well, not just those that would correspond to a place. They can be a vehicle, an item, a creature, even a sapient one, a single beating hearth without a body surrounding it, constantly pumping the currents of imagination around it.

They can be isolated dimensions without contents or things that exist without space for them to exist in. They can be partial universes where reality breaks apart randomly in several places, pocket realities of extremely limited size, even non physical things like concepts, words, sounds or smells, images, bursts of electricity or heat, a color that exists by itself without a canvas to be colored by it, a few lines of software code passing by or an emotion that has come to say hi. Even seeds of ideas never had by anyone can be found here somewhere.

Treasures

Many of the things inside can be very valuable and desired by many, to the point of actually being real treasures, capable of changing the lives of the lucky few able to find them.

Idea or concept mining is a common activity. This consists in collecting free floating ideas and concepts in order to make use of them somehow. Because it is the place of though and imagination, all thoughts and ideas occur there and can be found there. If one knows how to look it is possible to learn what anyone has ever though or believed about anything. Seeds of unborn ideas can be found floating around, some can be genial and collecting them could lead one to a breakthrough invention or a beyond masterwork art form. The solutions to all problems real or imaginary, including those yet to come. One with amnesia could find their lost memories in there as well. These things are even used as a form of currency on some places. Some ideas and concepts are obviously more valuable than others and those rarer ones can become very highly prized and be traded by very large amounts of currency or other resources.

Many other treasures and mysteries can also be found there. Small Imaginatas can be found of whatever riches or resources have been imagined for them. They open up the door to the possibility of endless resources of any type, from energy to raw materials, knowledge, technology, entertainment, new cultures and civilizations of any type and at any level or development.

Not just physical or plausible treasures either. It is easily possible to imagine that things like the fountain of youth or divinity seeds that would turn anyone into a god could be found here, therefore they can.

Completely abstract things can be found here directly. The love of a desired, person that does not correspond such feelings. Happiness on its pure form. Things like a sense of humor or a larger intelligence. The power to do something one could not do before, like the power to fly or the power to become invisible, enhanced strength or the power to see again (useful for a blind person). All these things and more can be found here somewhere in many different forms, possibly, but not necessarily, assuming some quasi-physical substance.

Entering it

Entering it requires leaving reality itself, going through the Great Barrier into the land of fantasy. This sentence alone should give an idea of how hard it is to achieve.

Mentally

The easiest way to do it though, is through the mind. Any usage of the imagination in any way is already a form of entering it just slightly, like wetting one's toes on the beach. Sleeping and dreaming penetrates it much deeper, as does day dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is an even more powerful way of doing it. Its the form at which the potential of the Imaginarium to be molded by one's desires really becomes apparent. But it is also deceiving in that it hides the chaos that lies beneath it all and the difficulty in controlling it, for the unconscious mind keeps it stable for the entire process.

Meditation is similar but it allows one to reach as deep while remaining conscious.

Many hallucinogenic drugs also send one's mind into it, possibly providing some degree of stabilization around it, possibly not. The dangers inherent to the usage of such drugs are, many times, not actually directly derived from their usage but a consequence of being inside the Imaginarium.

Astral projection is probably the more advanced form of having one's mind leave the body and it also allows for easy entering into the Imaginarium, if one is aware of it and how to do it. It can become so easy as to the point of being trivial.

Physically

Entering it physically is much harder. One's body is part of one's reality and what needs to be made is to separate that part of reality that is one's body from the rest of it.

How does one get into the land of imagination? The story of a book, the setting of a TV show or a movie? How does one enter into the realm of all that is not real, the sea of the elements of imagination? This is probably impossible so, in order to do it one must achieve the impossible.

Magic is one way, the more obvious one, if it exists in one's reality at all. But some kind of super-science can also allow to achieve this result. It just needs to understand the nature of reality and be able to poke holes through it.

Reasons to enter it

There are many reasons that lead those crazy enough to do so. The first and most obvious one is because it is in our nature. It is there so it causes a need to explore it to appear. It is the last and larger frontier.

Some explorations are purely scientific in nature, driven by the search for knowledge, an attempt to understand the nature of this new frontier and what it can say about the nature of their own reality. Others are purely driven by greed in an attempt to collect as much of its endless resources and treasures as possible.

Attempts at contacting the realities of other Imaginatas are also typical. Some are simply motivated by curiosity, a desire cultural exchange or exploration. Others by attempting to establish trading relations with them. But many are also motivated by a desire for conquest and exploitation of their resources.

Another common reason is a desire to escape one's own reality, to find something better or to create a new one shaped by one's desires. The idea that anyone can create and shape their own personal reality according to their whims and live like a king there or even become a god inside it can be very tempting.

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On the other hand, any imaginable horror and curse can also be found in there, in addition to the dangers of the Imaginarium itself so one should thread carefully even when dealing with an apparently valuable finding for it can turn out to be something else entirely. In practice one can imagine what one desires and it will be there but there is no guarantee that it will be in an easy to reach place. The more precious and valuable it is, the harder to find and obtain it will probably be, possibly even being surrounded by dangers of different types, traps, guardian creatures, etc, all probably taken from the unconscious mind of the one imagining them in the first place, possibly along with the many unconscious thoughts of others related to and close enough to have an effect on the result. Even the slightest seed of a doubt or a danger will contaminate the result therefore one requires the most extremely focused mind in order to create exactly what one desires without any flaws or drawbacks.

Any contact with other Imaginatas is usually somewhat limited to the closest ones, the ones that share a similar and related area of the Imaginarium. This means that they have a somewhat similar inner reality or, at least, similar thoughts and believes and imaginations but those usually tend to originate from similar realities as well. These Imaginatas are usually derived from each other's imaginations and exist as derivations of the others.

Activities inside it

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Anyone capable of physically entering it will most likely need to take some way to ensure their survival with them. The Imaginarium has no space or time, no air to breath, no ground to stand on, no gravity at all or anyway to move inside it. The only helping trait it has is that the expectations of those entering it will tend to form a stability bubble around them, which helps to some extent. If they are able to focus enough they can even shape the area around them to their desires. Other than that it is very much chaotic and subjective to an extreme. What one person sees or experiences has no relation to what the others do, even when they are together. Other times, all their experiences combine together to form a common one. Distance is also subjective and has no meaning. A thing that is perceived as being at an extreme distance might be jut right next to you and something that seems close by can be at the most extreme of distances. Perceptions get mixed in and confused, sounds can become visible and colors turn into smells. The only way to move around, if no space and solid ground is found, is by focusing one's though into moving in the desired direction. But even direction is subjective, it is possible to look left and see oneself from the right or from any other point of view. It is even possible to see multiple images of oneself in several places at the same time, at different distances, all of them real. Sometimes one can even see one's own past or future in several places. Going to those places just means coming back to the same point. The entire experience tends to cause extreme emotions of helplessness, confusion, claustrophobia, fear of heights and even madness eventually. Its ultimate danger though is that it slowly consumes the existence of anything inside it, corroding it like an acid that leaves nothing unburned. Real things slowly become less real, more subjective, less focused eventually having their nature change into that of the Imaginarium itself, turning into fantasy, subjectivity, imagination, becoming non-real. Those affected by these tend not to notice as it is a slow process and there is nothing inside the Imaginarium that can serve as a point of comparison to remember oneself of what is real and what is not. Only when one tries to leave it again can this change become apparent as the contrast between the reality, even if only that of a stable Imaginata, and what one have become in whatever amount of time has passed. As the Imaginarium has no time or can have multiply time dimensions in the same place, all passing at different speeds, it is not possible to know how much time as passed while inside it. A second can become a million years or the other way around. The only way to resist these effects to some extent is by being able to focus one's thoughts enough but even this is a temporary measure for there is only so much time one can maintain a focused and continuous thought without being distracted by anything and if there is anything that the inside of the Imaginarium is is distracting.


There are some navigational beacons and well established quasi-stable trade routes between some Imaginatas in there to be used safely by those who know them but they need to be regularly maintained in order to prevent them from being consumed. There is some exploration of it, analogous to our own exploration of space. Researchers study its apparent patterns and behaviors from the safety of an Imaginata, using special machines akin to telescopes that allow looking into it. They study other Imaginatas in the same way we study other stars or planets. They also study the brain and the process of imagination and relate those two disciplines for that is the nature of the Imaginarium. Some research stations have been establish inside it for scientific purposes. As it usually happens whenever different civilizations meet each other, there are also military incursions into it, prisons, military bases, fleets, war!

The more advanced civilizations that venture into it have been able to develop some tech or magic to make such incursions safer to some extent. They have ships with stability generators of some kind that make it safe for their crews. Two such ships of different realities finding themselves can become very dangerous as the stability bubbles they generate can be extremely different from each other and there is no way of knowing what would happen if they where to touch each other. The laws in effect in each of such bubbles would interact and result in something different, possibly something dangerous, or maybe they would even cancel each other out and allow the Imaginarium to move into them in force or they could even just cause an explosion that would annihilate everything inside such bubbles. Even then, whatever process is used to generate the stability field probably only works on the area surrounding the Imaginata they originate from for such an area is much permeable to their believes and the process works because of that only. Other areas will not be equally susceptible to that and the process might fail to generate the field entirely or partially so in order to venture further and further away one needs to constantly find new ways to adapt to the new conditions or of expanding the area they are familiar with by increasing the amount of thought put into it. The generators must be very sturdy for the Imaginarium exerts a constant pressure against any area of stability inside it. Even the Imaginatas only stay stable enough for some limited time, although possibly an incredibly large one and they do so due to all the minds inside them accepting their reality as a given, never doubting it. This means that enough people inside an Imaginata doubting its reality can lead to cracks on such reality opening up and eventually, to the collapse of the entire reality. It is the largest joke that despite those realities actually being subjective in nature, their survivability depends on those inside them believing they are objective.

Natives

There are some native creators to the Imaginarium, basically because they have been imagined to exist. In the same way that the ancient sailors imagined monsters on the deep, far away and unexplored seas, so have those who ventured into the Imaginarium imagined great and fantastic monsters living in it. There is a huge array of possible creatures living, surviving and even thriving inside it. They remain undamaged by their surroundings because that is the way they have been imagined and they are very stable for the same reason. After they have been imagined in such a way, their own reality gives them the stability needed to resist such environment. and the abilities needed to navigate it. Even then their eventual deaths can still be attributed to the corruption inherent to the environment.

A few of such creatures are even sapient. Those are then able to continue to imagine themselves in order to enhance their survival. Such entities can shape their surroundings by focusing their minds and become very powerful within such realms for they imagine themselves and their realms that way. They can even become god-like in their realms if they are able to focus their minds enough. Some have encompassed entire Imaginatas inside their realms making them the rulers of such worlds. There is even a theory that such entities could have imagined themselves into being.

Despite this the Imaginarium itself has no ruling entity over its entirety. Some entities can be perceived that way due to them ruling a large enough area but there are always many other areas outside of their realm. This is just a special case of the Imaginarium having no global rules or properties.

In their essence, all these beings, sapient or otherwise, are just another form of Imaginata, for they are the creations of imagination.

Relations with other cosmological objects

The realms that those god-like entities rule over have been called Godverses. They are usually attached to one or more Imaginatas that their rulers control or have even created.

The areas between the clusters of Imaginatas are much more empty, as the focus of imaginations usually are concentrated together to some extent. Those empty areas correspond to the Outside. Even further away, beyond those areas is the Beyond. Areas not filled with the imaginations, not empty of them but instead filled with their opposite, filled with 'amaginations' or 'unmaginations', whatever those are. But those areas are extremely far away, across many infinities of non-space.

Paradox Space is probably the equivalent of the Imaginarium if not exactly the same thing, with their descriptions being closer than anything else. Both contain all that is not real and both are filled with paradoxes, even being paradoxal in nature.

The Box can also be seen as the equivalent of the Imaginarium. As it has been imagined, it is contained by the Imaginarium but the Imaginarium can also be shown to be contained by it, therefore they are similar in that respect. Each contains the other and each contains itself infinitely many times, in infinitely many versions of itself. That being said the Box is probably more similar to the Omniumverse instead, making it slightly bigger than the Imaginarium. But it still exists inside the Imaginarium in the same way that the Omniumverse also exists inside it.

Imaginatas contain their own internal Cosmologies and they can even have multiple parallel Cosmologies at the same time, either related or unrelated to each other. They can have any size and contain anything, from a single Universe or smaller, a Multiverse, a Omniverse or even larger. It is even possible for an Imaginata to contain its own Box or its own, equally sized Imaginarium or even Omniumverse inside it. Despite that, they still exist inside the Imaginarium so they both contain and are contained by it. Even those largest ones end up succumbing to the pressure and corruption of the Imaginarium eventually, after enough eternities have passed inside them.

Relations with the Omniumverse, the Realium and Itself

The Imaginarium itself is part of the Imaginarium to the same extent that it is part of the Realium. It is imagined therefore part of itself. It is both larger and smaller than itself at the same time. It contains itself infinitely many times. But imagination is, by all evidence, something real, therefore part of the Realium. To the extent that all we imagine is part of reality in a certain way, so are all of the Imaginatas and the Imaginarium itself. They are all real in the sense that they are really imagined. But the Imaginarium is less real than all of the Imaginatas inside it for its definition is that which is not real. This agrees with the impossibility of fully imagining it for that would make it real in this way. So the Imaginarium is the thing that cannot ever be fully real despite having to be real at the same time.

The contrary is also true. Many of the aspects of the Realium or even its entirety are also part of the Imaginarium. We imagine reality all the time, we perceive it and process those perceptions in our brains, our minds and those perceptions live inside the Imaginarium. Also, is there any difference between experiencing something and imagining it? Some insights point for the brain to be unable to tell the difference. Is the past real? We remember it but, as such it exists only as recordings and as memories in our minds, therefore it exists in the Imaginarium where all such things exist.

We make recordings of reality all the time. Are they recordings or are they the reality? They are real recordings but even if they are 100% truthful of what they record they don't record all of reality and they are not all of reality. They aren't even the part of reality that was recorded. The map is not the territory after all. Therefore they are not the same as reality, so they must be in the Imaginarium. Even more so if they are not 100% truthful in all the little details. And so they must for the writing is contained in reality so it cannot also contain reality at the same time. That contradiction is a property that can exist in the Imaginarium but not in the Realium, as far as we know. So the writing does not contain reality, does not describe it entirely and in 100% faithful way so it must be describing some Imaginata that is extremely closer to the Realium in the ways described in the writing. Any reading of a recording produces only an imaginary view of the reality, an Imaginata, not reality itself. There is a difference between information and what it describes. Information, even knowledge, at this level are just other words for imagination, they are part of the Imaginarium. Reality was recorded to create the recording but what is recorded is now only information which exists in the Imaginarium as another Imaginata. More than mere recordings of reality, works of fiction are clearly even more in the Imaginarium, much deeper and further away from the Realium.

Interactions with the Realium

The Imaginarium is reachable to different levels and in different ways from different Imaginatas. By all accounts, from the Realium the Imaginarium is only reachable through the efforts of our minds, through the use of imagination, the exact same thing that gives it shape is what allows us to reach into it. We are able to explore large parts of it as well as many of the Imaginatas that exist in there. We are also able to remember our past that lives there through the use of our memory and to plan for the future by using our ability to predict it through expectations and reasoning that also allow us to cross the Great Barrier into it. Other Imaginatas are actual able to reach physically into it though, being possible for physical objects or entities to enter it. Weather or not they can survive and act in any way inside it is another question. In order to do so they must be able to find themselves in a particular stable way that allows for their continuous existence, survival and operation or they will need to have some way of imposing some bubble of stability around them just to survive. It might be needed to even give it some dimensions, both spacial and temporal.

What would appear to be even more strange than we being able to reach into it is for the opposite to be possible. Sometimes the Imaginarium itself or some Imaginata is able to cross the Great Barrier into the Realium at some level. This can be witnessed as we are affected by it happening, we have our feelings affected in this or that way because of it, we become convinced of something or get a new idea that just appeared out of no where, we get inspired, motivated, unmotivated, etc. All those things are examples of the Imaginarium reaching out to us, into the Realium.

Point of View Hypothesis

A curious view of it all is one consistent with that of the philosophy of modal realism. By that view all of the Imaginatas would be as real as the Realium. That also turns the Realium into just another Imaginata, making them indistinguishable. Realium becomes just another name for "my Imaginata" or Actual Reality and Imaginata becomes just another name for Reality. The Imaginarium becomes the entire Omniumverse and the space that exists between all the existing realities. There is probably no way of knowing if this is true or not though.