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[Trailhead?] What Is Elephant
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Bekokstover
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 		UPDATE: got Charlie 3 subscribers. No change.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:38 am
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diegohcarmonacr
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Bekokstover wrote:

Another thing I noticed, is that the email reads "I figured you should have this. I'm afraid you wont be able to meet Charlie face to face just yet." Both times, face is italic. Does this seem significant to anyone?


Facebook, maybe?

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Nutley
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 		That little elephant statue seems to be connected to dreams. As seen in Inception they use certain items in dreams to let themselves know if they are dreaming or not. After Charlie picks up the piece out of the sky the cars disappear from the road. Me personally being a lucid dreamer knows that once you realize you are dreaming there are a couple different things that can happen. One is that once you realize you are dreaming you can ultimately control yourself in those dreams. You can also sometimes control where you are, who you are with, etc. Another thing that happens, quite often is that once you realize you are dreaming, you wake up. In dreams there are also dream signs that each person can use to become lucid in a dream. Everyones dream sign can be different and very hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. It seems that once Charlie picked up the elephant, he may have become lucid. There are also theories that dreams can be connected between people. When elephant said we cannot see Charlie face to face yet, maybe we can meet him in a dream? Also I think the statue may help remember dreams or help induce them? Just my thoughts

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diegohcarmonacr
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Nutley wrote:
That little elephant statue seems to be connected to dreams. As seen in Inception they use certain items in dreams to let themselves know if they are dreaming or not. After Charlie picks up the piece out of the sky the cars disappear from the road. Me personally being a lucid dreamer knows that once you realize you are dreaming there are a couple different things that can happen. One is that once you realize you are dreaming you can ultimately control yourself in those dreams. You can also sometimes control where you are, who you are with, etc. Another thing that happens, quite often is that once you realize you are dreaming, you wake up. In dreams there are also dream signs that each person can use to become lucid in a dream. Everyones dream sign can be different and very hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. It seems that once Charlie picked up the elephant, he may have become lucid. There are also theories that dreams can be connected between people. When elephant said we cannot see Charlie face to face yet, maybe we can meet him in a dream? Also I think the statue may help remember dreams or help induce them? Just my thoughts


Inception 2?

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HttpError404
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Nutley wrote:
When elephant said we cannot see Charlie face to face yet, maybe we can meet him in a dream?


I had a theory that Elephant was with Charlie somehow, based on the fact that, although Charlie will never meet(I'm not sure by the wording now whether Charlie will never meet Elephant or never meet Charlie) Elephant, Elephant knows Charlie very well. I had emailed asking whether we could meet Charlie indirectly through Elephant, but no response has come. Perhaps we already have met him in a dream, through the videos. Charlie's 10% after all contained the binary encoding a number, supposedly a date. He may be communicating with us that way. We've also(obviously) been given a small bit of insight into his - or somebody's - dreams.

I'm interested in the person behind the camera, the one who hands what I've assumed was Charlie the Elephant thing. What if Charlie is the one behind the camera, showing this to someone else he knows? And if not, then who is seemingly unaffected by it and giving it to Charlie, despite that Charlie received it in the mail?

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
tl;dr I have more questions than answers.


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Bekokstover
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Nutley wrote:
That little elephant statue seems to be connected to dreams. As seen in Inception they use certain items in dreams to let themselves know if they are dreaming or not. After Charlie picks up the piece out of the sky the cars disappear from the road. Me personally being a lucid dreamer knows that once you realize you are dreaming there are a couple different things that can happen. One is that once you realize you are dreaming you can ultimately control yourself in those dreams. You can also sometimes control where you are, who you are with, etc. Another thing that happens, quite often is that once you realize you are dreaming, you wake up. In dreams there are also dream signs that each person can use to become lucid in a dream. Everyones dream sign can be different and very hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. It seems that once Charlie picked up the elephant, he may have become lucid. There are also theories that dreams can be connected between people. When elephant said we cannot see Charlie face to face yet, maybe we can meet him in a dream? Also I think the statue may help remember dreams or help induce them? Just my thoughts


Interesting train of thought, although I don't know if this leads anywhere just yet. Seems we're to be patient until the 19th. Seems logical, since that's exactly one week from the 12th. But elephants remember everything, right? Then it's quite logical that the elephant is the symbol for remembering the 10%. But maybe it's also a clue.

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Bekokstover
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 		Another thing I noticed is that Charlie & Oscar are both letters from the NATO phonetic alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet. So that's the letters C and O. What letters are to follow?

And what about those codes? S01AT1, S02AT1...

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Naglfar
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 		Charlie
Oscar

Juliet
Mike
Romeo
Sierra
Victor

So I pulled the names out of there... not many vowels. I dunno about this.

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jjjonesy
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 		New e-mail
Just got this e-mail today:

Quote:
Hello.

So...

You want to know, what is elephant?

Some of you are looking, feeling your way, looking at the parts in front of you. Very good.





But some of you aren't.

http://whatiselephant.posterous.com/


A couple things disturb me. First, the e-mail was not BCC'd, revealing everyone's e-mail addresses. Second, this IG e-mail links to the posterous site which pretty much shreds the curtain.

This is beginning to feel like some sort of student project...

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jjjonesy
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 		Sorry for the double post, but I just got this reply all from jamesSPLATshorttermmemoryloss.com:
Quote:
Elephant: Fuck off.

The rest of you: hello! Shall we have some kind of party?


So great, it has begun. Thanks Elephant for the e-mail address reveal...

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:05 pm
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Leanonberger
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 		Sent an e-mail to James already. Hope to hear at least something back...

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xoxo_pr0ud
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 		Great. The one ARG I decide to join in months revealed my email address.

Did the Elephant tell you to F off? Why?
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AUZ505
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 		I see. It seems some of you got an "reply" from James. But strange... I did get the Ele phant one but not the one from James.

James might be ingame (and the reason for not BCCing the mails ... nevertheless it is not the best way to start an ARG). Here is James website:

http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/

The green square makes it look ingame.

No. His page exists since some time.

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xoxo_pr0ud
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 		I don't know. I sent whoever it is talking to me an email. We'll see what happens.
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jjjonesy
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 		Jesus, you guys are kidding me, right?

The e-mail from Elephant revealed everyone's e-mail address (at least the ones the e-mail was sent to), which is a big no-no. Then this jackass James (who is a participant, like us) sent the reply all e-mail. I'm thinking he won't be the only one, and I'm gonna have to put my spam filter on overdrive. (BTW, that was "James" telling Elephant to "Fuck off."

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