Images are in the eye of the observer

[phiwum]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Note that images and illusions vanish the instant that the caster loses consciousness, so the sleeping don't provide the needed level of awareness. Perhaps these can't even exist any place where there is no observer.

You are conflating two quite different things: the consciousness of the caster and whether any conscious being is observing the image. Far as I know, *every* creation vanishes when the caster loses consciousness, so if this reasoning worked, we would have to conclude that summoned beings, fire, etc., must be observed to exist.

Which is, of course, fine if we're interpreting Cidri in terms of Berekleyian Idealism -- sort of. But I've already pointlessly introduced philosophy recently enough that I'll let it go.