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[the audio feed turns on for a few seconds before a boy begins to speak. He's still just as quiet as his first message on that rainy day and speaks as softly, but the shock and the anxiety are gone. Instead, there is a heaviness in his voice---it sounds as if he's dreading his own words.]Excuse me. I'm sorry for bothering you with these questions,
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[Liquid's own voice is surprisingly and rarely quiet.]
Sometimes it's hard to tell where dreams end and real life begins. Dreams can be vivid and deep, to the point where you wake up in surprise. But it's rare or impossible for people to share in their dreams. There are people here that woke up remembering the same events, in their own world. That know each other from those "dreams". I don't think they were false memories. They go too deep. Far too complex.
But if they were... don't forget that these "false memories" were supposedly put into us unintentionally. A side-effect of whatever they were doing to us. So it's possible for people's memories to be drastically different.
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.................Won't that mean that our memories are no longer true? Or not applicable, at least. I don't think any of us wants to believe that.
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Why cannot both realities exist at the same time? Crossing a threshold does not make the room you left any less valid than the room you just stepped into.
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On the other hand, if it's my decision to view dreams and reality as one or the other...wouldn't it mean that all the dreams I've had thus far are, before this, could be...real? And I just crossed back to wherever the first room was when I wake up? [suddenly that thought is more horrifying than what if this isn't a dream]
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What isn't supposed to happen is for people to be able to cross between them. Yet it's still possible. Absurd, but possible. There's a woman here, named Aqua, who even prior to coming here was able to travel between worlds. I would never have believed that until I came here.
No. Once your mind cemented them as "dream" they ceased to be "real".
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But what if, um, Miss Aqua was 'dreaming', too, and all the worlds that she could cross were part of that machine?
[pause]
I suppose we'll never know that, will we, unless she finds a way out of here and tell us about it.
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What if you're dreaming now? There's no sense in doubting your mind. Whatever is real, whatever is not, it doesn't matter. For all you know your existence might end an hour from now. That might be your reality. All you can do is take what you have and make what you can out of it - without forgetting who you are.
Those memories are part of you. They built you, made you who you are, shaped your personality and mind. It doesn't matter if they're dreams or not because they were your reality until you woke up here. Keep them safe.
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.......But. Suppose.
Suppose you dreamed you killed someone, and when you wake up, that person is dead. Did you really kill her, 'once', before you decide that you were dreaming? Nothing you do can change the fact that she's dead, but would your dream still be a dream?
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Ah... I'm not kind. Trust me on that.
...but now that is an interesting conundrum.
Logically, there'd need to be more information. For instance, whether the method of murder matches the victim's death. Not just the method, either, but the situation.
It is possible for your mind to register something as a dream when it was actually real; it's a self-defense mechanism to protect you from suffering more trauma than you can handle. Trauma-based Amnesia is something similar. To you, at that time, reality becomes a dream simply because your mind recognises that you cannot deal with the situation.
However, there are also such things as prophetic dreams - and dreams given by an outside source. I worked with a psychic back home. Believe me, it is possible to envision something in a dream and for it to become reality, absurd though it sounds.
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So I'll trust you that you're kind enough to warn others about yourself. Thank you.
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I.....suppose the method of murder would match, from what little I know. I don't know about the situation. That does lend a little bit more credence to the, ah, self-defense mechanism theory? Is that what you called it? That murder...would be the last thing I want to remember, if it really happened.
Prophetic dreams. [a small pause] I'll, um, take you on your word that they exist, then. But wouldn't that mean....you really killed that person? If they're dreams that are reality at the same time?
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[That's an interesting point of view...]
Tch. You're welcome.
That's close enough. It's a way to defend your mind from reality. Most people that have suffered traumatic events will endure the same thing.
...not necessarily. You could be dreaming from the point of view of someone else, I suppose. But it is possible, yes.
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........I've never thought of it that way before. It's...certainly something to think about.
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The first time someone kills is always the worst. Even seeing death for the first time can be traumatic.
Even soldiers such as I react badly to it. No matter how many times you see it, no matter how much you supress it, death is not something easy to handle. But whether you did it or saw it or dreamt it, there is nothing you can do to change it.
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