Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-142.167.98.9-20130810075540/@comment-13199219-20130811185346

Banneram wrote: Something I will eventually attempt to explain it is kind of hard to sum up in short form, basically it is the realization that everything of the TES universe is the product of the godhead, a lucid dreamer would be a fair comparison. Once you, meaning the in game character, realizes that the universe it nothing more than an illusion said character gains the ability to change everything about the universe. Another important aspect of this is once realizing that everything is illusion is also realizing that you are an illusion yet retain your identity. If said character did not they would zero sum, and just cease to be.

The two most famous people who achieved chim(atleast in this dream) are Tiber Septim and Vivec. Those who have played Skyrim will of course remember Heimskr, he quotes a portion of an entire document about Tiber Septims use of CHIM.

"You have suffered for me to win this throne, and I see how you hate jungle. Let me show you the power of Talos Stormcrown, born of the North, where my breath is long winter. I breathe now, in royalty, and reshape this land which is mine. I do this for you, Red Legions, for I love you"

- From the Many-Headed Talos, Michael Kirkbride

This is a reference to Tiber Septim changing the province of Cyrodiil from a jungle to the fertile farmlands we encounter.

It is a metaphysical concept that is an undertow in all of the TES games, most people fall on two sides of CHIM either they feel it is a legitimate concept to debate while others feel it is extrapolation taken to the extreme.

This of course is a very general overview of it and does not particularly do the topic justice, however I would rather not scare anyone off with too much of it all at once. So the player character realizing they are just a dream essentially makes it into the matrix then, right? But with less robots and dudes in trench coats.