Hypothesis: If imagining my human body doing stuff prompts things to change for my orb body, perhaps imagining hands while viewing stuff remotely might do something.

Experiment results: When I focused as hard as I could on reaching out my hand to ‘touch’ a nearby tree, nothing happened, but I did feel a faint something happening. Not sure what it was, but doing the same action again made me feel the same way.

After ‘touching’ the tree a third time, I think I’ve figured it out. I can’t ‘touch’ it, per se, but I can feel it, and not just the way one would ordinarily touch a tree. That sounds weird, my point is, I can tell how thick the bark is, how moist the wood is(heh), so on and so forth, just from my focusing on ‘touching’ it. While neat, it doesn’t mean much to me. Knowing I can ‘feel’ some of the things I can see with Orbvision(trademarked and copyrighted) doesn’t make me think any better of being an Orb in the first place.

I mean, I guess I should continue expanding this hypothesis. Hypothesis two, electric boogaloo, what if orb push things?

Oh. That is interesting. I can push things, but not in the way I was imagining. The thought of ‘pushing’ a fern near my orb did make the orb bend forward as though I had pushed it forward, but I didn’t ‘feel’ the fern like when I tried to ‘touch’ the tree.

Test three: Pushing and touching at the same time.

Result: I felt like I had properly put my hand on the fern to push it. Cool. I suppose I should just try out a whole bunch of stuff, then. I wonder if I can punch stuff?

I think I’m finally getting somewhere. Granted, punching and kicking seem to work the same way regular pushing does, so no ghost orb ninja shenanigans, but I can move stuff. Like, eh, if I focus hard enough on it, I can imagine myself putting both hands around the base of a plant, and pulling upwards, and I can pull the plant out of the ground. I now have a pile of uprooted ferns around my orb as a result of my experiments.

I honestly feel kind of bad for them. They might be plants, but I could still feel the way the plants felt to be squeezed and uprooted, which is decidedly not how plants should work, by the way. It wasn’t painful, I don’t think the plants can feel that, but there was a definite foreboding sense of something being wrong until I stopped focusing on ‘touching’ the ferns.

Well, I can pull ferns out of the ground, can I do anything about the trees?

No? I mean, if I was stronger. I can definitely make some of the very small saplings sway a little, but I don’t have the strength to do anything else. I certainly can’t move the big trees.

Hmm. I wonder why I’m even bothering with all this… It’s not going to change me being dead or anything, and I don’t really have a particular compulsion towards doing this stuff, so maybe I just am that bored.

Though, maybe I’m imagining it, but I feel… tired? Not physically, but I feel like I should sleep… Maybe I’ll just close my eyes for-

What just happened? Why is it so dark? Where am- Ah. There I am. Still an orb.

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I guess that’s what happens when I ‘sleep’, just a pure stream of consciousness from the point I ‘slept’ from until I woke up. I don’t know how to describe it… Like a sensory deprivation chamber that only exists for a second at a time, at most. I don’t know why I had felt tired earlier, either, but I guess even orbs need rest.

It’s nighttime now, clearly, and though it’s dark, I can still make out the rough outlines of everything that was previously in shade during the day, probably due to that moonlight. It takes a flex of effort to set my ‘remote’ view to the sky, to get a good look at the moon and stars, and yes, that most definitely is not earth’s sky and moon. Two moons, actually, different sizes or at least different distances away. The one ‘higher’ in the sky is a light blue color, the one lower in the sky actually looks like a soft red.

So yeah, wherever I am, it’s not on earth. I’ll unpack that later, but I can hear something moving. I swivel my remote camera around to the pile of ferns, half expecting a large creature like a fox or something to be strolling by, but no, instead, a rabbit-like creature is munching on one of the ferns I pulled up earlier. It looks quite happy, too, might I add.

I mentally close my eyes for a moment to try and think of what types of rabbits I remember, and make a realization I didn’t expect to. The colors, for one, are back the moment I close my ‘eyes’. Two, the rabbit has them inside of it. Actually, everything does, even the trees and plants. The dirt is a faint brown color, the trees all have faint green and blue lines throughout.

Hold on. Is this magic? I mean, it’s clearly correlated to something. The blue lines in the oak-like tree I touched earlier stretch downwards, and then fan out, like roots, maybe even following the roots, and the green ones seem to do the same, but from the base of the tree then fanning out like branches.

The bunny is munching on a fern that has that faint green color in a structure that reminds me sort of the shape of the parts of the plant itself. I forgot the names, but it looks right. The rabbit also has a sort of mottled mixture of red, brown, green, and white inside of it, but it distinctly is in the shape of the lagomorph, with how the white color seems to follow its bone structure.

Actually, the green in the rabbit might just be the fern it’s munching on. So maybe I am looking at magic, or something, either way, I think I have a use for acid trip land now, so that’s nice.

Not useful at the moment th- WAIT! My orb! What color is my-

Woah. I don’t know exactly what to make of it, but I can see the green and sky-blue colors swirling around from the ferns and from the air and into the orb. It honestly makes my orb look a little sickly, but the fact that it is happening at all is…

I don’t know what to make of it, to be honest. If it really is some sort of magic, I can’t feel it, so I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing with it, and if it isn’t, then, what is it?

I reach out with my ‘push’ and try to ‘push’ the green spiral, which actually succeeds in making it stop for a moment, until I stop ‘pushing’. Ok. That’s weird. What if I try ‘touching’?

Firstly, I can… See something. My ‘hand’, the thing I pushed with earlier, is visible. Like a ‘colorless’ outline against all the faint colors of acidvision. Secondly, when it touches the green stream, it turns green, and the green stream begins spiraling towards my ‘hand’ instead of my orb.

My first instinct is just to stop touching it, which immediately causes a now hand shaped blob of green to start falling towards my orb, like something falling into a gravity well. Actually, that’s a pretty apt way to think about it, looking at how all these colors are behaving.

What’s the rabbit doing? I don’t know why, but I spin my ‘head’ around to check the moment I see the green hand touch the orb and disappear, and I’m glad I did. It’s just staring at the orb. Not moving, just staring. Just to check that it really is just standing, I open my ‘eyes’ to turn off acidvision, and indeed, it really is looking at my orb from the front. Which is odd, I could’ve sworn rabbits liked to look at stuff from the side.

Turning back on aci- I guess magicvision, I think I know what it’s doing. It’s looking at the now clearly interrupted stream of green stuff falling towards my orb from the pile of ferns. Just as a test, I mentally reform my colorless ghost hand, and try to imagine what exactly this green stuff feels like, which is harder than I thought it’d be, but I think it’s like a particularly long and stringy bit of pasta. Which works for me, apparently, because with that idea in mind, I’m able to grab onto it, and move it around a little.

It’s still falling towards my orb, but I can change the way it is flowing to do so, which makes me wonder if I might be able to split the flow-

The rabbit ran off.

I kinda wished it would have stayed.