(002) Daydreams

[dreamofspice]

[Phone] So everyone had a similar kind of dream, hmm? And a lot of people were taken in by it. You know, some say that dreams are like a window into your mind, but it's a little hard to think of them that way when someone else is messing around with them. I hope the people talked about in the newscast are all right...

Well, if anyone wants to talk, I can keep you company! I think we all need a little help keeping our minds off of things.

Comments

[byakkoyagirl]

Right you are. However, truth itself is just something that is crafted by an environment. "Apples are red" is the truth, but only because we identify the object as an apple and assign it a color.

So if Mayfield told them all "things would be better if you never existed" how compelling was the 'truth' that they were presented, for them to agree to the devil's offer? Is truth really so constant that nothing could alter it, not even the disappearance of the fools who took the bait?

[dreamofspice]

Of course, you have to remember that it was all told to them in a dream, and in dreams people are more likely to accept their surroundings as a given. If they didn't, a lot of people would having very stressful nights.

[byakkoyagirl]

Something along the lines of "this and this would happen if you never existed", right? It's rubbish really.

Dreams are a lot less abstract from my perspective, but that is more or less because I never slept before coming here. Still, you make a point. People are more carefree and foolish in dreams, doing things they would not regularly wish to do in reality. And that makes them easier to manipulate. Interesting how the guardians of Mayfield never thought to do it before.

[dreamofspice]

Some people say the purpose of dreams is to digest the events of a person's life and shuffle through them so that they can be more easily understood. This doesn't help if the dreams just cause confusion, but sometimes with a little help they can be really revealing.

But yes, given the right tools, they can be very easy to manipulate.