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The reason why is because I'm a knowledge seeker. I'm also a problem solver. And if I don't know the answer, that is a problem.

Ahahaheeheeheeeeeee.

Yeah, you're going to have serious problems, primarily because you used "the" in "the answer." I'll go ahead and just give you a heads up that there isn't a "the answer" when it comes to metaphysics. About the best you can do is coherence (/deductive strength) based on a set of axioms which are inherently arbitrary (and thus unjustifiable, though justifiability isn't the end-all of consideration... just one of the strongest and largest aspects). All things start with an axiom or axioms. An answer, in other words.

My best advice to you is to the find whichever answer best suits your needs and goals and then internalize that. Observe and investigate other answers for ones which better suit your needs, but realize that no matter your position, it can eventually be broken down to an unjustifiable axiom which you can only assert, not defend. If you're looking for something more solid than that, you're SoL

Metaphysics is absolutely delightful, though. The conceptual systems that have arose and continue to arise from it are simply beautiful.

Rare enough they've not really bothered researching it so far, outside of where it's connected to stuff like migraines (and even then, only to the extent of knowing that the effect goes away with the other symptom/cause). Doesn't help that they can't really pin down a set cause, or the fact that it may actually be several different conditions (with similar symptoms) caused by several different things.

Also rare enough that the practicing optometrists (two, so far) and psychologist (only one) I've asked had never heard of the symptoms before they ran into me

So yeah, not particularly normal. Like said, took me nearly twenty years before I even noticed it was unusual, heh. Congratulations, though! You've been mildly hallucinating all these years and didn't even know it. Who needs drugs, eh?

Damnit Duke, now I'm seeing you as a kobold thief skulking into formal dances with a giant burlap sack, stealing people's children.

And then apparently apologizing, but not giving the children back.

I just had the most wonderful realisation.
In Hogwarts, did they ever teach maths? Did they teach literature? Did they teach computer science, or art? I can understand them not going into science, I guess, but would business studies be that bad? What about music, or even sex ed? Did they ever get taught any of these most fundamental aspects of muggle life? No, they were too busy learning about spells and potions and means of travel that would most likely leave you unable to have children.
So remember folks, next time you meet somebody who seems dumb as a brink, and has trouble figuring out how much change they should give when you order a coffee, just remember this; it is because they are a wizard!

They did teach mathematics, actually (though magical mathematics or some rot like that) and no doubt some forms of art (re: Portraits) were taught at some level. Obviously not computer science, though. Rowling didn't exactly go into much detail on the scutwork of the society she threw together, though.

As for literature, the whole education was probably based around the magical equivalent of crap like the Tractatus. They probably didn't need much extra there

Anyway,the rest of it's what we have fanfiction for! To rend your mind and soul, whee

Yeah, I've got it 24/7, 365 -- light, dark, eyes closed, eyes open, entire visual field, the whole works. I dream with it, heh. And yeah, multicolored (red/yellow/green/purple/blue, primarily); about the same color spectrum as what you see on a soap bubble or oil/gas puddle. Not strong enough to interfere with functioning, but it's occasionally distracting and has some interesting related effects (Staring at a single point for very long makes the world go funny ). Fortunately no apparent medical/neurological issues attached to it, though, which is better than some folks blessed(?) with the condition.

Biggest issue I've had with it is that it makes (traditional) meditation a borderline bitch. There is no true darkness and no stillness in my world, heh. Always light, always movement. It's very beautiful, though, for all that it's occasionally annoying.

Pretty much that, yes. I occasionally get decent recall, but the only control I've ever managed is waking myself up from some particularly bad ones. Getting shot sucks and bleeding out is just terrible but it's usually too quick to jerk myself awake.

Actual lucid dreaming would be pretty neat, but so far attempts haven't worked out.

Ran... out? Pandarens have been around since WC3

If that marked Warcraft fluff running out of steam, it's been chugging along on empty for just shy of a decade now. Which... maybe, blazes if I know.