Sheldon Rolls Dice with the Universe - I missed the most recent episode of Big Bang Theory, but from what I hear, the episode began with the group playing a game of D&D, and continued with Sheldon using his gaming dice to make all of his life decisions. I'm hoping to catch it in reruns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
Interesting...
Reminds me of a suspense/crime novel I once read back in the 80's, where people were being killed, and in the end you find out it's a group of people who are actually playing a popular board game of the time, and the crimes represent various moves that occurred during gameplay.
How does the dice system of making all decisions using a pair of dice work? Is it a arithmatical thing? Do higher or lower scores indicate one answer or option or yes or no or what?
Speaking of game characters being real...
There are various methods of throwing "stones" to make decisions. iirc there is an olde chinese method of putting a black stone and a white stone into a small bag, which to touch are identical. When you need to choose, you mentally allocate the choices to each stone and pull one out.
Nordic runes can be used in a similar way:
http://www.jelldragon.com/images/ai_bag_of_runes.jpg
The principle by which they "work", if they work, is that subconsciously (intuitively?) you can tell which one you are pulling out, and your subconscious mind makes a choice which consciously you aren't aware of. So if you do it right, you are accessing the answer which you know to be true, without overthinking it.
imo tarot works (if it works) in a similar way.
I am a fan of Blade Runner, but haven't read PKD's books at all. Didn't know he had done that, it sounds ingenious.
I am wondering whether introverts would process these tricks differently. As enfp with my wild and largely untamed internal world, I need ways of accessing that world sometimes, and doing mystical stuff helps me slow down and focus internally, or tune into vague memories and senses of things that I'm not quite aware of. Then, it seems magickal. But the sticky posts I've read are telling me I'm not actually magickal - so maybe the I's have it down pat without needing these tricks?