> Beginning of Report9Please respect copyright.PENANA69xsr4EQJm
Perceptual manipulation is an instance in which the absolute sensory information of a person (while awake and fully conscious) is strongly overwritten with new environmental data (Sensory Relocation or Sensory Shift). One purge expert Scryer claims: “Perceptual Manipulations are essentially hallucinations made more powerful while giving the user some lucidity during the moment. Their entire world around them can drastically change into something else without their previous permission, affecting all five basic senses. The intensity of a moment of perceptual manipulation can vary. Despite how powerful they are, they can easily be broken by elements of the outside world with enough emphasis. Though subjects who report having gone through moments of perceptual manipulation insist on emphasizing exactly how real and memorable their experience felt. Since the instance affects all five senses, one really can expect to physically be in a different world one moment later.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAAk5USUfTni
9Please respect copyright.PENANAwGtU1pgIhr
Perceptual Manipulation is best discussed in the section about the properties of a psionic purge. This is not an actual ability as much as it is an experienced phenomena that only occurs as a result of the purge process, as a side effect. The experience itself opens up speculations into what perception actually is and what it means when it can be manipulated completely from psionic influencing. Though this particular suggestion was shot down in the making, some suggested that perceptual manipulation is in some manner a form of indirect mind control. The idea sprouted from the thought that a person’s actions cannot be controlled (via psionic powers), but still influenced greatly if their entire perception is actively manipulated into believing anything specific. However, the AVPSI and those who raised the idea have different definitions of what mind control is, leaving the mind control ability officially debunked in the primary reports.9Please respect copyright.PENANAybsPr0blJ2
9Please respect copyright.PENANAXSHR7qgDOo
Perceptual manipulation cannot occur from the reactions of another Scion using an ability, but that statement only holds true for as long as no Scion demonstrates this conscious and controllable power. If a Scion were to one day demonstrate the ability to control or warp the perceptions of another individual, it could shake the very foundation of how perceptions are understood in general science. It also opens up a world of possible applications for such an ability, be it malicious or helpful. Helpful examples of its applications could be manipulating environmental details of a range of people in an audience during something such as a concert or storytelling event. Another application could be to show a person with a deficiency in sight or sound what the actual experience is like in the first place. Malicious examples would be anything that involves tricking a target into doing something they would not normally do on their own. However, all of this still remains speculative to current day, as the aspects of perceptual manipulation are only partly understood by psionic scientists, and made possible through the purge.
> End of Report9Please respect copyright.PENANAmJdEp3ISiL
ns18.222.185.243da2