She smiles, but it's a hollow thing. All show and no meaning.
"Nightmares aren't supposed to be nice," she counters, "and dreams are meant to make the dreamer happy. Everyone disagrees with the people they care for and love from time to time and such things don't belong in sweet dreams." Her head tilts slightly as she watches him, her pleasant-enough smile never fading from her lips. He has such a strange way of thinking of things, but he does seem quite knowledgeable about dreams. It's the first time ...in a long while that she's felt she could actually converse with someone about the topic.
"I'm certain it varies for each person, the nightmares they'll encounter in the Eternal Dream. For some people, what they see now when they close their eyes is terrifying, but easily forgotten. Maybe something like losing a precious object or not remembering something at a critical moment. Worse things are easy to imagine in such cases, and would play off the fears of whoever was dreaming them." The smile on her lips turns dark as she tips her face toward his. "But for some of us, I'm certain good dreams would be the real nightmares. If losing things or people or your own life aren't what you fear, then what about gaining those things you don't think you deserve and having to struggle with them for all eternity? Wouldn't that be more frightening?"
Someone may have thought about this a lot over the last few years of her life. And for her, it's completely true. Her dreams are more often what make her weep or what she forces herself awake from. Her nightmares are suspenseful and horrifying things, but her dreams? Her dreams are that much worse.
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"Nightmares aren't supposed to be nice," she counters, "and dreams are meant to make the dreamer happy. Everyone disagrees with the people they care for and love from time to time and such things don't belong in sweet dreams." Her head tilts slightly as she watches him, her pleasant-enough smile never fading from her lips. He has such a strange way of thinking of things, but he does seem quite knowledgeable about dreams. It's the first time ...in a long while that she's felt she could actually converse with someone about the topic.
"I'm certain it varies for each person, the nightmares they'll encounter in the Eternal Dream. For some people, what they see now when they close their eyes is terrifying, but easily forgotten. Maybe something like losing a precious object or not remembering something at a critical moment. Worse things are easy to imagine in such cases, and would play off the fears of whoever was dreaming them." The smile on her lips turns dark as she tips her face toward his. "But for some of us, I'm certain good dreams would be the real nightmares. If losing things or people or your own life aren't what you fear, then what about gaining those things you don't think you deserve and having to struggle with them for all eternity? Wouldn't that be more frightening?"
Someone may have thought about this a lot over the last few years of her life. And for her, it's completely true. Her dreams are more often what make her weep or what she forces herself awake from. Her nightmares are suspenseful and horrifying things, but her dreams? Her dreams are that much worse.