We'll handle the easy one first. It is not RV. It is probably a form of RV, and fits in the general category of OBE for most purposes.

Yes, to both questions. Other people have also done it. Generally speaking, waking someone in this manner either annoys them or frightens them, depending on their prior experience with telepathy.

Nope, it proves no such thing. All it indicates is that you did nothing about what you saw.

1) Usually, you don't.
2) "Retaliation" smacks of combat, and is therefore not a topic for this site.

1) Yes. It is less likely in the case of someone learning from scratch, but still a risk. The "better at it" you get, the higher is the risk.

2) Focusing on one person is a matter of skill, and not very much skill, at that. In other words, yes, it can be done. The Shield in question would be to keep from being flooded by other input. At a crowded party with a lot of noise, it is still possible to focus in on what one person is saying, but the rest of the noise is still there. Roughly the same situation here.

Talk louder, or --paradoxically-- whisper.

Umm... you stand up? Walk around? Why, do you know someone stuck in "RV-mode"? Heh.

1) There are no absolutely-established rules of etiquette, which apply everywhere, no. However, if you want to avoid ticking off other psionicists, ask permission before doing anything with or to them, including scans. Beginners' scans often feel quite rough, for one thing, and in any case, such "reconnaisance" is sometimes considered a prelude to assault. Any close telepathic contact is intimate in nature, and such contact can be similar to rape in its effects on an unconsenting subject. (Loud broadcasting and the like is disconcerting to "regular folk" and annoying to other psionicists, but tends not to be viewed quite so dimly as telepathic scans, probes, and so on).

2) This one qwould depend on your definition of "non". If you are using it in the Psion Guild's manner (local usage was borrowed, very loosely, from there), then it is supposed to be possible to detect differences in "tone" between "nons" and the other sorts of folk. I, personally, cannot do this with anything remotely resembling accuracy, nor can I vouch for the accuracy of anyone else in this question.

If you simply mean "someone who doesn't do psionics", then looking at their field will _often_ --not always!-- tell you. Best way to learn, is to look at folks's fields (with permission, see above), and compare appearance/sound/feel.

Of course, the easiest way to determine whether or not someone is an active psionicist is to watch them "do" something. ;)

It is possible to make your field look like that of an "inactive, not-psionic" type of person. For a lot of folk, dropping their Shields, dirtying up the field outline, and letting a few months' worth of debris accumulate will do the job. For other folk, careful Shielding in a not-reflective mode, and covering the shield with uncleaned stray "psistuff" and assorted debris (think "hermit crab") can get the job done. Some folks' fields are difficult to conceal.

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Yes, empathy can be used with other species.

As for "making" someone empathic, it might be possible, but would be difficult to prove. How would you determine whether the subject of the experiment already had some degree of hither-to-dormant talent?

Don't worry so much about getting your body to lose awareness. Choose target sites that you have not seen, but can get verification of details about. For example, RP to a museum which you have not visited, and _then_ either visit it or check out their website to check your accuracy. If it is accurate, then why worry if it is "imagination". If it isn't accurate, then at least you know where you stand, and have a place to work from.

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