Want to ensure that youРІР‚в„ўll have plenty of good luck for the foreseeable future? ThatРІР‚в„ўs what the Dark Reflection Ritual is for.

(Just pretend youРІР‚в„ўre making Polyjuice Potion.) Note that youРІР‚в„ўll need to plan ahead to do this one making the tea is easy, but if you want to get fancy and make it an infusion instead, youРІР‚в„ўll need about a month for it to brew. Then, with the help of a little automatic writing, you should have your answer. The game involves making a specific kind of tea (note that I canРІР‚в„ўt speak to whether or not all the ingredients are things you should actually ingest, so proceed with caution and do your research first), toasting yourself, and asking your question of yourself. РІР‚СљWould you like to know why you do something in a particular manner or why you made a certain decision? Do you have a habit you canРІР‚в„ўt explain the origin of? Maybe youРІР‚в„ўd rather find out about a confusing feeling you sometimes get or take a more psychonautic approach.РІР‚Сњ The idea is for you to lower the barriers your waking mind might come up against and see if you can figure out the answer to your question while youРІР‚в„ўre in something of a dream state.

РІР‚Сљ The purpose of this РІР‚ВdateРІР‚в„ў is to gain some information about yourself,РІР‚Сњ fraterviciate wrote. That doesnРІР‚в„ўt necessarily mean itРІР‚в„ўs an easy one - but as Redditor fraterviciate put it when they posted it to r/ThreeKings, this one has РІР‚Сљa much safer outcome,РІР‚Сњ because in it, youРІР‚в„ўre basically going on a date with yourself. The good news is that itРІР‚в„ўs a low stakes game. In many ways, For the Acquisition of Knowledge from the Dream World reminds me of the Shoebox Telephone, except that youРІР‚в„ўre not contacting someone else - youРІР‚в„ўre contacting yourself. Some people have some things lurking up there that you donРІР‚в„ўt really want getting out. One of the chairs is your РІР‚Сљthrone,РІР‚Сњ with the mirrors occupying the other chairs acting as your РІР‚СљqueenРІР‚Сњ and your РІР‚СљfoolРІР‚Сњ the idea is that if you have questions going into the whole thing, youРІР‚в„ўll walk out with answers.Р”Р„ few warnings, though: One, just because it doesnРІР‚в„ўt claim to summon an actual spirit doesnРІР‚в„ўt mean nothing gets summoned two, from your perspective, youРІР‚в„ўre the king, but your queen and your fool have their own perspectives, too, and they might not think of themselves or you the way you yourself do (thatРІР‚в„ўs why the name of the game is Three Kings) and three, even if all youРІР‚в„ўre doing is walking around in your own mind, that doesnРІР‚в„ўt mean itРІР‚в„ўs not dangerous. It involves setting up a couple of chairs and two mirrors in a particular way and taking steps to put yourself in the right frame of mind for the experience. Instead, itРІР‚в„ўs probably best described as a meditative ritual. ItРІР‚в„ўs more involved, for one thing also, the reason I like it is that it doesnРІР‚в„ўt say specifically that its goal is to summon any spirits or demons (because as much as I might want to believe in ghosts and other worldly beings, I donРІР‚в„ўt - IРІР‚в„ўve just never experienced enough proof from a first hand perspective). I mean, sure, weРІР‚в„ўd all heard of Bloody Mary and what have you this one, though? This one isРІР‚В¦ special. I would argue that these days, Three Kings is the mirror game to end all mirror games ever since its appearance on the r/NoSleep subreddit four years ago and the subsequent creation of r/ThreeKings, mirror games have been de rigueur for digital natives in a way that I donРІР‚в„ўt think they really were previously. We worry that, if we break a mirror, weРІР‚в„ўll be cursed with seven years of bad luck.Р”Р„nd we like to play games with them, largely, I think, because we have a deep-seated psychological need to tempt fate. We wonder if mirrors might actually be more like windows, or perhaps even doors, and if so, what they might let in (or out) - and whether we should cover them up in order to keep them closed. WeРІР‚в„ўre fascinated by our reflections, and whether or not an exterior image might accurately show what a person is like inside - or not. Mirrors have long been associated with the otherworldly in superstition, folklore, and literature. To be fair, many of them are recent inventions, stories spun in order to shock and delight in the same way the urban legends we told each other as children were in that sense, theyРІР‚в„ўre not steeped in lore or grounded in reality. Many of us grew up shutting ourselves in the bathroom with the lights off during sleepovers and chanting the name РІР‚СљBloody MaryРІР‚Сњ into the mirror 13 times - but thereРІР‚в„ўs a whole host of creepy mirror games out there that our pre-adolescent selves never even dreamed might exist.

The real scary maze game