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 Threshold sickness
Psychic disorder which strikes young telepaths when they reach
puberty (i.e., when their laran starts
awakening).
Causes of the threshold sickness
Laran is based on the use of energons which flow through human body in
channels. Unfortunately, sexual energy (whatever it can be!) uses the same
channels. The trouble is that laran and sexuality awaken at approximately at
the same time during puberty. Channels get saturated by energons and sexual
energy flows. This can be called the objective part of the threshold
sickness (The Heritage of Hastur, p 240).
Moreover, laran awakening is a difficult experiment as new perceptions
appear. One begins to receive other people thoughts, to have precognition
flashes, etc. The consequences of this new feelings are the psychological
part of the threshold sickness (op. cit., p 186).
Consequences
Channels saturation is also a dangerous situation, even for fully trained
telepath. Sexual energy and laran can stimulate each other and the overloading
can kill the telepath (op. cit.,
p 240).
Lesser manifestations of the threshold sickness include the following:
- headaches and head throbbing (op. cit., p 183)
- the telepath sees little dots of light which [remain] even when his
eyes [are] shut (op. cit., p 183)
- hallucinations (both visual and auditive) (op. cit., p 185)
- uncontrollable flashes of precognition and returns in the past (op. cit., p 267)
- random wandering in the overworld (op. cit., p 268)
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