1st Entry - Book of Dreams

[post_script]

Sender: Angela
To: Everyone
Subject: Regarding the content of dreams
Warning: Will update if any pop up!

Greetings.

I am Angela, a new arrival to this dream realm. While I have been informed of many of this place's unique properties, there are still several mysteries that I would like to delve into.

To that end, I would like to begin with a question: have you ever seen a place like this in your dreams before your arrival?

I also have another question, this one more out of personal interest: what is it that you normally dream about? I have never had a dream before, you see, and I'm curious as to how this may differ from the norm.

To those who answer, I thank you for your participation.

Comments

Sender: Yamatonokami Yasusada

[hairpinings]

Honestly, this place is far nicer than any of the dreams I usually have. Mine I think... you would normally call a nightmare instead aha...

But have you really never dreamed before?

[post_script]

Nightmares similar to this place are an equally acceptable experience. As they tend to relate to more personal traumas, however, I decided not to make mention of them.

To answer your question, I haven't. Not once. I can only assume recent circumstances play into my ability to do so now.

[hairpinings]

I guess that would make sense. If you're asking everyone about how their dreams usually go, it might be seemed a little rude to ask them more personally than they want to answer.

If... answering this will help you out, I don't mind sharing my own experiences. I'm sort of new to dreaming myself as it is.

Sender: Kashuu Kiyomitsu

[redbeauty]

I've never seen anything like this place until I arrived here. I've been to all kinds of places, but they were all rooted in reality.

As for your second question, I don't think you can really dream wrong. It's a normal thing for humans and there's not much anyone can do to control the types of dreams a person has.

So I guess for me, I dream about people I've met or places I've been to in the past, but that doesn't mean someone who dreams a lot about food or about abstract concepts is any less "normal."

It's hard to put a label on that kind of stuff, you know?

[post_script]

That's not surprising. I've read that one theory behind the existence of dreams is the mind processing both recent and past experiences while humans sleep.

However, that theory doesn't account for this world's existence if no one has seen something like it before.

[Not that she doesn't have her own theories.]

[redbeauty]

There's also something I read in passing that suggested when humans dream, they're incapable of dreaming about a face they haven't seen before.

But here we are, in a world where you might know one or two people because you're from the same world, where everyone else is a stranger. We're dream figments or something like that, but we're still able to see all kinds of faces and objects we've never seen before.

Were you looking into the reason specific people ended up here?

Sender: Pauline Bonheur

[ribbonbon]

I've never seen anything like this in any of my dreams before, even in my weirder ones.

Even my weirder dreams are kind of uninteresting, though. A lot of my dreams are about every day stuff, but something weird is happening. Like once I dreamed that I was going to school and suddenly I realized that I forgot to go to my algebra class the whole year!

Are you sure you haven't dreamed, though? I've heard of people having dreams and then not being able to remember them after they wake up.

[post_script]

Interesting. I thought they'd somehow be more fantastical than that.

To answer your question, that would be impossible. I was designed to remember everything around me in perfect detail. A dream would fall under that as well.

[So she says, but if she were to think back to the carnival from when she arrived...]

[ribbonbon]

To be honest, A lot of people probably have more interesting dreams that I do. I think it's just that school always takes up a lot of my time, so even when I'm asleep that's what I end up thinking about.

Designed to remember?? But dreams are different than regular stuff, right? Instead of something that someone tells you or something around you, they're kind of made up randomly by your brain, I think?

sender: chalcedony akerman

[virtues]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Angela. My name is Chalcedony Akerman.

I'm just like you I'm new to this dream realm as well. My world differs in comparison to this one but I believe that holds true for yours. I lived in Organica and it's a world with two moons.

[post_script]

Interesting. Would you tell me more about it? This is the only place I've been to with more than one moon in the sky.

[virtues]

That won't be a problem. There's a white moon Minera and the black moon Gardenia. They're the subject of many legends and fairytales.

There's much I don't know about my own world but I found myself going on a journey in search of the truth.

Sender: Noel Vermillion

[bulletic]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Angela! My name is Noel Vermillion, and I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability.

For your first question, I've actually been in this very place before, woke up, and found my way back here again... though I suppose you mean a place different from this specific one, yes? I've dreamed of a certain world before, so that could be considered similar... it's a little complicated, so I'm not sure how to explain it.

Regarding my own dreams... I've dreamed of many things, like the childhood memories of my family... or things that could have been if things had gone differently. The possibilities that the world held...

What I'm trying to say, I don't think it was necessarily anything special or exciting? I apologize if these aren't the answers you've been looking for... but I hope it helps, however little!

[post_script]

There is no need to apologize. Any answer is helpful at this point in helping me to better understand the nature of this place.

However, I must admit that I'm curious. You mentioned that you left and returned again? Do you have any ideas on how that came to be?

[bulletic]

I believe I simply woke up... so I suppose I might have fallen asleep again to find myself back here? I'm not entirely clear on the details, but that appears to be the case!

sender: percy jackson

[judoflipped]

usually i have dreams about monsters and gods that want to send me to the underworld or worse
the usual

[we're not going to talk about how long it took for him to read and send this text ok

also is he joking??? it's probably hard to tell over text.]

[post_script]

[It's very hard indeed! There's something about the tone there that makes her wonder, but it isn't as if it's a particularly surprising subject.]

Maybe I should have made it explicit that I'm seeking serious answers only.

Unless that wasn't a joke.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Um, I... sort of lived in a place like this a while before I arrived. I had more direct control of things there, but it didn't take much adjustment.

As for dreams... Well, I dream of my friends, things I've done with them and hope to do with them. Sometimes I have nightmares about... well, about bad things happening to them.

There's a long pause, before Ralsei continues.

You don't remember your dreams, though? That's interesting. I know some people are like that...

[post_script]

Not quite. This is the first time I have ever had a dream. In this sense, of course. I have had several goals.

May I ask how you had control of the place you came from?

Sender: Norimune

[kikuichi]

No, I don't believe so. This realm is quite different from the dreams I have before. None of them feel as fantastical as this land.

[post_script]

I see. Your dreams tended to be more rooted in realism, I take it?

[reluctantradiance]

Most of the time, my dreams are like rewatching some of my old memories, or stuff like that. I don't think I've ever seen a place like this in any of my dreams.

Have you really never had a dream before...?

[post_script]

Though I was human for a short time, I am, in fact, an AI. Though I was not designed to sleep or dream, I am capable of emotion.

[A more roundabout explanation than she would like, but at least it helps take care of some follow-up questions.]

But it seems you aren't alone. Unless someone has specifically left and returned to this world, it appears most people have never seen it until they arrived.

Sender: Seto Kaiba

[blue_eyed_obsession]

A new arrival, huh? Well you're in for a trip.

[He replied offhandedly before addressing the rest of her message.]

To answer your questions in the order you posed them:

1. No, not like this.
2. Dreams are personal and vary for each individual. When you consider it in that context this place isn't that outlandish. Anything can happen in dreams, it's just dependent on what is present in your subconscious as to what you end up seeing. So there is no "normal".

[No mention about his own dreams, mind you]

[post_script]

So I'm learning. Still, I'm glad to have confirmed my suspicions rather than have made an assumption.

That said, for a place based upon the human subconscious, it's much less hostile than I would have thought. Even that carnival that was supposed to be frightening seemed incredibly tame.