Dragons of Meracydia: Survivors?

Oooh, call me excited then! I'll definitely be looking forward to that!

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Originally Posted by Dererk

The mind is a scary thing.

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I'm skeptical as to how likely it is that your mind would simply shut down just because you've seen a convincing illusion of your own death. To my knowledge, it's never even come close to having been accomplished in real life to cause someone to die just by convincing them that they are dead. Your mind makes it real isn't, well, real.

However, there's no reason why the hologram chamber needs to be simply holograms. There could be actual props disguised by the illusions. For instance, Heavensfall could be an actual hunk of Allagan metal, glamoured to look like a chunk of Dalamud.

Either way, the real question is why Nael didn't just squash us all if she had the ability to make such a convincing illusion (partly real or not). Why all the dancing with meteors and golems and such? I suppose the answer to that was that Nael was a delusional lunatic, and wanted to orchestrate our deaths according to her elaborate script.

Keep in mind it also has to do with sensual deprivation we didn't know it was an illusion so we thought it was real. For it to have a real impact a few things has to be involved the senses.

Sight if you block this off it has a more powerful effect on convincing the person the illusion is real. In this case it was because we didn't know we were in one.

Touch or in this case pain yes Nael was there so the first hit from him convinces it is real. Going back to sight here for a second seeing a person you know is real get hurt they are convinced it is real too its known that if people are in close proximity to a person who is sick if that person described the symptoms some people will start to feel like they are sick too as to why the mind is a scary thing.

the smell we did get hit by Nael so blood wer bleeding we can smell the blood.

Taste this may be a bit hard but so not going into it.

Now the final and most important one hearing if your sight is blocked off your hearing is intensified so since it was an illusion our sight was pretty much blocked off.

Now the other most important thing to convincing any one an illusion is real. Make it as real as possible.
Yes just because it's an illusion didn't mean you can be convinced if Nael just turns into a giant and just stomps on you it has to seam as real as possible. If you can't convince the person its real it won't work.

Keep in mind this is a theory yes but it dose make more sense than just debris falling down when in a place like a holo projection room would make the thing not work because it needs every bit and piece intact and the slightest opening like the ceiling to let down a heavensfall pillar would ruin the whole illusion.