Difference between revisions of "Cognitive Realm"

;Plants on Cognitive land: Some areas in the Cognitive land (which is water on the Physical Realm) appear to have plants or plant-shaped objects on them, the type of which differ in each region.{{wob ref|1546}}

While everything in the cosmere has a Cognitive aspect, most sentient beings only perceive the [[Physical Realm]]. However, there are several ways to move one's consciousness, and even one's existence, away from the Physical Realm and thereby experience the Cognitive Realm. [[Worldhoppers]] do this in order to easily traverse the space between worlds via the Cognitive land. Furthermore, the souls of the dead appear in the Cognitive Realm before passing on to [[the Beyond]]. Through [[Investiture]], a soul can last longer in the Cognitive Realm, and some even hold on long enough to be considered [[Cognitive shadow]]s, souls that fail to pass on and are stuck in the Cognitive Realm.

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One such city is [[Silverlight]] is, a human-inhabited city fully located in an unspecified region of the Cognitive Realm. The city has several universities, and is where the cosmere scholar [[Khriss]] is based.{{au ref|selish}} Aside from [[Worldhopperworldhopper]] residents who came from the Physical Realm of other worlds, there are also humans who were born and raised in Silverlight{{17swob ref|post|513021|Arcanum Unbounded signing in Hoboken, NJ|date=2016-12-032520}} and are therefore native to the Cognitive Realm.

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On the Rosharan Shadesmar map, the Selish subastral is called the [[Expanse of the Densities]]. The Shards of [[Dominion]] and [[Devotion]] were [[Splinter]]ed and trapped in the Cognitive Realm by [[Odium]]. While the power of most other Shards resides in the [[Spiritual Realm]],{{au ref|selish}}, Odium has locked the power of Dominion and Devotion in the Cognitive Realm to ensure that nobody on Sel could gain those Shards.{{17swob ref|post|512956|Arcanum Unbounded signing in Hoboken, NJ|date=2016-12-032546}} This makes the Cognitive Realm on Sel extremely dangerous as anyone who comes there unprepared would be shreddedripped apart by the power of the Shards,{{wob ref|7212}} now collectively known as the [[Dor]]. This manifests as a large storm-like, highly pressurized form made of a substance similar to plasma.{{wob ref|8241}}

AccordingThere tois an interview with [[Brandon Sanderson]], there isapparently a world that appears in the Cognitive Realm as an "empty wasteland of near-nothingness."{{redditwob ref|mistborn|2ytg2h|cshtsde|text=Could you describe what the Cognitive Realm looks like in a Shardworld other than Roshar?|date=2015-06-253517}}.

It has been implied that there are regions onin the Cognitive Realm that don't have the fluid-solid-fluid reversal.{{qainversion ref|1108|17|WoRseen signingon inRoshar Omaha|date=Marand 13th,Scadrial.{{wob 2014ref|7200}} Whether this is the region of "near-nothingness" is one of these has not yet been confirmed.