What does petrification feel like?

It would be like undergoing paralysis, being turned into stone make any movement difficult, with rapidly impaired circulation of the blood accompanied by loss of sensation. Large sections of the person's nervous system would be turned to stone.
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Can you petrify a human?

Scientists attempted to artificially petrify organisms as early as the 18th century, when Girolamo Segato claimed to have supposedly "petrified" human remains. His methods were lost, but the bulk of his "pieces" are on display at the Museum of the Department of Anatomy in Florence, Italy.
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Can a human turn to stone?

Stiff skin syndrome causes a person's skin to harden and thicken across the entire body, according to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD).
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What can petrify?

Petrification is when a live organism becomes gradually turned into a stone. Many fossils found by amateurs and archaeologists were formed through petrification.
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What creatures can petrify 5e?

Creatures that can petrify others: chickatrices, cockatrices, and Medusa (but Medusa can be stoned by her own reflection) Creatures already made of stone or earth: gargoyles, winged gargoyles, stone golems, earth elementals, xorns.
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Are you conscious while petrified?

tl;dr The petrified monk is not unconscious, and remains sane as the duration of petrification passes quickly from their point of view.
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Can you dispel petrification?

If you're trying to end petrification resulting from something that's not a spell, like a Beholder ray, Dispel Magic won't work. You'll definitely need Greater Restoration for that. It is a spell with a duration, so you can try Dispel Magic on it.
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How long does it take to petrify?

How long does the petrification process take? In nature petrification can occur in just 5,000 to 10,000 years.
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What happens when you are petrified?

Effects. Victims of Petrification were completely paralysed and unresponsive. It may have taken careful examination to discern if a victim was Petrified. A Petrified ghost would turn a dark smoky grey and could only be moved using air currents.
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How do you reverse petrify?

Petrified is a condition, there are currently two spells that remove it. Greater Restoration as mentioned here, and Wish, the 9th level spell. Usually there are also consumables (potions/salves/oils) that will remove petrification, however we have not seen any of those yet (we'll likely see them with the DMG though).
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What is senkus IQ?

What Is Senku's I.Q.? Senku's IQ is realistically assumed to be above 160 and somewhere around 180s. Taking his feats in Dr. Stone into account, Senku outsmarts most characters and might have the highest IQ in anime.
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Who is the why man?

Why-man is the overarching antagonist of the manga and anime series Dr. Stone. It is the name given to the source that was behind the mysterious powerful radio waves and is the cause of the petrification that took place over three thousand years ago.
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Who can turn you to stone?

Medusa was a Gorgon, a monster with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers upon her face would turn to stone.
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Why was Headless Nick petrified?

On December 18, 1992, Nick was Petrified by the gaze of a basilisk, the creature from the Chamber of Secrets. He remained Petrified, which for a ghost means that he was the color of smoke and completely immobilized, for several months until May 30, 1993.
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Will there be human fossils?

“We and our animals are just going to totally flood the mammalian fossil record,” says Roy Plotnick, a paleontologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lead author of the study. “The future fossil record of today will include lots of human skeletons all lined up in a row.”
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How can I become a fossil?

How to become a fossil
  1. Have a hard skeleton. Every animal alive today will die eventually, but not every dead animal will become a fossil. ...
  2. You have to die. This turns out to be the easy part of becoming a fossil. ...
  3. Get buried even more. ...
  4. Discovery!
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Is petrification a death?

Yes you continue to make death saves while petrified. The condition petrified states the following: A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object is is wearing of carrying, into a solid inanimate substance (usually stone). Its weight increases by a factor of ten, and it ceases aging.
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How long does bone take to petrify?

Answer and Explanation: Fossils take over 10,000 year to develop. The definition of a fossil is a trace left from a death that happened over 10,000 years ago. All bones take at least 10,000 years to petrify.
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How do you petrify?

It involves soaking a section of wood in hydrochloric acid for two days and then in either a silica or titanium solution for another two days. After air-drying, the wood is placed in an argon gas filled furnace and slowly heated to 1400° Celsius over a period of two hours.
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How long does it take to petrify poop?

Paleontologists have found coprolites of lots of different animals, including dinosaurs, cats, and even humans. Typically the petrification process takes a few thousand years, but you can get your hands on this one for an estimated $8,000-$10,000.
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How old is the youngest petrified wood?

Our oldest wood is about 375 million years (m.y.) old and formed from the most primitive true trees that grew on the Earth, and our youngest wood, probably about only 15 m.y. old, grew along rivers that were eroding the Rocky Mountains.
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Can an animal be petrified?

At least it was a quick death. Scientists have discovered that ancient animals preserved in the famous Burgess Shale fossil deposit were killed by a mud slurry that buried them so deep their whole bodies were petrified.
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Can you long rest while petrified?

Yes you can be healed or stabilised while petrified. The condition petrified states the following: A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object is is wearing of carrying, into a solid inanimate substance (usually stone).
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Are petrified Creatures objects?

Yes, a petrified creature is an object, it is also a creature.
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Can wall of stone be dispelled?

If you maintain your Concentration on this spell for its whole Duration, the wall becomes permanent and can't be dispelled. Otherwise, the wall disappears when the spell ends.
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