✯ Alternate Universe Session 2.0 ✯ [Voice]

[byakkoyagirl]

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[Private//Voice]

[goldenglasses]

Actually... Aunt Paprika, I wouldn't mind talking with you about my dreams.

[Private//Voice]

[byakkoyagirl]

I'll be glad to. Do you want to talk in person or is over the journals alright?

[Private//Voice]

[goldenglasses]

Well you know I always love an excuse to visit, but the journals would be alright if you're busy.

[Private//Voice]

[byakkoyagirl]

I'm never busy for my nephews. Just tell me when you want to come over.

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[one_green_eye]

Sensible advice. [he doesn't know the woman-- maybe just her name and occupation, overheard a few times. But this is a good place for questions.]

"Planting shifts in the mainstream subconscious" -- that's an interesting way to put it. What do you mean?

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[byakkoyagirl]

If these dreams are truly inorganic then that means they are being directly put into our subconscious and activate when we sleep. From what I'm understanding however, these dreams are not just regular but memories. False ones.

There are some parts of a person's memory that cannot be accessed by the waking mind, but in sleep they can be. So, these shifts have been planted into our memory, but only the subconscious one.

...It's just a theory though.

[one_green_eye]

It sounds like a pretty good one... [he follows, in silence-- though perhaps understanding "subconscious" as something a little different that the definitions of psychoanalysts]

Only--- [pause] -- the shifts went to some lengths with the details, don't you think?

[byakkoyagirl]

The shifts may not be supplying us with the details all together, but just mixing things up. Like showing people in the Valley not as family, but as something else for example. They didn't create a new memory, they just jumbled an old one. They likely provided details for other things however.

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[interstellars]

So that was...just a shift?

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[byakkoyagirl]

Unless you had dreams that didn't feel like implants, then likely. It's too much of a coincidence for everyone to be waking up in a cold sweat from their nightmares.

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[interstellars]

Then, does that mean you, too...?

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[interstellars]

- Oh! I'm sorry, even if you did, that doesn't mean you'd want to talk about it.

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[stilldontgotit]

A Shift inside our heads... Sounds pretty weird, but I guess it's possible. Stranger things have happened here.

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[byakkoyagirl]

It's just a theory really. I can't say for sure, but it's just what I think is probably happening. The dreams are too unnatural and jolting to a point where they shouldn't be normally.

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[stilldontgotit]

Yeah, no kidding. Besides, there's no way this is a coincidence. Seems like everybody's having similar dreams.

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[byakkoyagirl]

Yeah, but these dreams are too distressing from what I can understand and that isn't good for anyone. But, understanding what we see in them to a point can hopefully infer why we are having such vivid and specific dreams.

[tehoniongirl]

[she wasn't as close Paprika as she was to Giles. Working with him at the school meant that she'd always had an easier time talking with him and his kids. But they were still cousins and, right now, family was welcome.]

I don't think I want a permanent record of these. Of any kind.

[byakkoyagirl]

It's not easy, but recording them might help you find some common patterns. Of course, it's just my advice. I can understand if some people don't want to write them.

[tehoniongirl]

Isn't it possible it's just shift related? It doesn't actually have anything to do with us, right?

[byakkoyagirl]

Oh no, I'm sure they're shift related. It's too odd for them not to be. But, it's still disturbing to see yourself in another life completely within the dreams. Recording them can reveal interesting things about the nature of the shifts perhaps. Like how no one is really sharing the same dreams on the same wavelink.