02 | (video) To sleep, perchance to dream...

[spacetogrow]

[Post-dated to after the battle]

This is kind of a weird question, but... what do people normally dream about?

[Ilphyl ducks their head, realizing that it might be personal.]

Elves where I come from don't need to sleep. We can go into a meditation called reverie or trance, and it works the same to let us stop feeling tired. Sometimes, we might review memories, but for me... it's just like I can feel time pass, but it's not as clear as when I'm awake. I've only slept when I was sick or badly hurt, or when I was really young. Like a toddler.

[which... Ilphyl is not an old elf by their world's standard, and not even an adult by some communities' standards, but actual childhood was still decades ago]

But with the curse, I had to sleep in wild shape to get any rest, and I... well, I don't know what normal dreams are. And I was too afraid to ask while I was still cursed.

[Because they didn't want to think about how much was bleed through; unlike a normal polymorph spell, a druid kept their mind in wild shape, but one couldn't spend most of their time as a cat, or a raccoon without some changes in how one saw the world.]

So... what do people dream about?