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[pain_train]

Who: Wrath
Broadcast: Text to the fleet
Action: On the Heron
When: now!

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[Wrath's sleep hours aren't the most regular, though she has a definite routine that she keeps to. This is a break in that routine. Weird hour, still in her fluffy pink pajamas, she's sitting in the dining area with a cup of some godawful, bright pink concoction steaming in her hand. She also looks exhausted.

Not drinking it. Alternating between staring in the middle distance and sketching something on a small tablet.

Officer Snuggles is at her feet, and as much as a fox can look worried, he does.]

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hey everyone so

what does it mean when you can remember a dream i never remember my dreams but i kind of had one i did

are dreams always weird and bad

and waking up feeling like you've been screaming is normal right cause that happens a lot but i never remembered why til now

do you dream about places you've never been or seen or stuff like that how does it work

thank you for your answers

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[wingenvy]

you too huh

[hi friend, he barely knows you but interstellar brofist of solidarity or something]

they're not always bad

just sometimes stuff catches up to you

or gets shoved into your head when it doesn't belong there too, i guess

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[pain_train]

glad to know they're not always bad

does it mean anything if you dream about a place you've never been cause it was this really pretty green place and i've seen pictures of what my planet was like before the terraforming fell apart and it never looked like that so i didn't like forget or something

stuff getting shoved in your head like a compliance thing or?

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[wingenvy]

i haven't even been here a month i have no idea

but we get stuff shoved in our heads from day 1 here right? so maybe it's just a thing, maybe that augment is doing something weird

sucks, either way

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[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha's been around Heron a lot. Has been for months now. She sneaks on, leaves presents for Barnes, or messes with him, or sometimes just visits. More and more often now, just visiting. Which is all to say, it's not weird for her to be around at an odd hour, sneaking out of the captain's room to make herself coffee before heading back to Vanquish.

She hesitates only for a moment before she goes to the counter and starts picking through the cupboards.

When she asks her first question, it's over her shoulder.]

What you drinking?

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[pain_train]

What? Uh.

[Didn't even notice you coming in, Natasha. She looks up from her tablet, startled, then down at the cup.]

It's... um. Pink?

[She hadn't really been thinking about it when she made it.]

[outstandingbalance]

You're aware pink is a color and not a flavor, right?

[She says it gently.]

I was going to make myself something, if you'd rather have some coffee. Or you can stick with Pink. Your call.

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[goldenglasses]

Waking up feeling like you've been screaming generally means it was a nightmare. A dream that scars you.

Dreams are usually weird, but not always bad.

I've dreamed before of places I've never been or seen. They're usually a bit more interesting.

[There's a pause in his writing as he peers at the other conversations. There's been more than one nightmare tonight? Interesting.] I had one tonight in fact. It wasn't a very nice dream. Sometimes talking out loud about what you saw in the dream helps.

Want to share what you saw?

[As he knows the Atroma can send visions, but can the rouge fleet do the same?]

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[pain_train]

okay so it's good to know that's normal at least

sure

[Two files attached, pictures. Sketches she's made on her tablet and filled in with enough color to give a sense of things; Wrath's a really good artist.

Picture #1: surface of a beautiful, green world, verdant and alien. Indistinct stars in the sky. There's a sense of sadness to it, even though it's quite pretty.

Picture #2: same world, obvious from the same landscape shape, but it's dead and grey now, all the plants withered. The air is thick and strange and blue. The sun is an angry red smear at the horizon. And there are shadows, reaching for the viewer.]

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[musicalhost]

It's not entirely uncommon to not remember your dreams.

Not all dreams are weird or bad, those are considered nightmares.

[She has them often enough, since her joining and a little more frequently since calibrations.]

Kind of glad I'm not the only one tonight.

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[pain_train]

that's really good to know

oh so you had a weird and bad dream tonight too?

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[ecclesiophobic]

Dreams aren't always bad, but mine generally are. Sometimes I remember them, sometimes I don't. I occasionally do dream about places or people I've never seen, but I couldn't tell you if that's normal. I spent most of my life living near a telepathy, and mental bleed is common while sleeping.

Is everything alright?

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[pain_train]

you think maybe that's what's going on like a telepathy thing are there still people who can do that around

yeah i'm fine just a weird dream thing kind of creepy

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[deviances]

i usually remember my dreams but they're not always bad. usually good, honestly.
had a bad one tonight tho. like really bad. worst in a while. kinda shitty honestly
and dude if you wake up feeling like you've been screaming it was probably a nightmare... sorry to hear it
wanna talk about it?
like not trying to pry or anything! promise
I can tell you about mine too if it'll make you feel better

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[pain_train]

oh that's really great if you have good dreams and remember them that must feel nice lucky!

was it a weird bad dream for you too? yeah like it would help to know what normal people dream about

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[helladoomed]

Waking up screaming isn't the most normal thing no but everybody does it sometimes
and you can dream about shit you've never seen sure
your brain just makes things up from whatever random thoughts are floating around in there
what did you see?

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[pain_train]

those are really good things to know thanks um i drew a couple of pictures if you want to see them

[Two files attached, pictures. Sketches she's made on her tablet and filled in with enough color to give a sense of things; Wrath's a really good artist.

Picture #1: surface of a beautiful, green world, verdant and alien. Indistinct stars in the sky. There's a sense of sadness to it, even though it's quite pretty.

Picture #2: same world, obvious from the same landscape shape, but it's dead and grey now, all the plants withered. The air is thick and strange and blue. The sun is an angry red smear at the horizon. And there are shadows, reaching for the viewer.]

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[norwaysown]

Sometimes they're bad.

It means you've got shit that's bothering you, if they are. Maybe memories, maybe just fears.

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[pain_train]

i don't remember a lot of stuff but maybe it's like fragments or fade or something i guess that is good to know thank you

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[alwayscomeback]

Hey so question.

I had weird dreams, too. Red stuff. Creepy faces. Spooky voices. But I also licked this thing that this vendor promised me was a fruit ice-treat on a stick but was probably a weird fungus now that I think about it. Given it was neither cold nor fruity, but was also slimy and made my throat feel weird.

So my question is if you had one of those things on a stick, too. Because that might explain the bad dreams.

[goldenglasses]

[Just looking over other responses now that it seems people are having the same dreams.

Oh look! Sokka had almost the same---

WHAT?!]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!

[He's just going to shout that at the top of his lung. Forgetting all about texting.]

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[pain_train]

maybe you should go to medical and have someone check that out that sounds super gross did it make you barf or something but no i didn't eat anything weird yesterday and i didn't even try to get drunk like what kind of red stuff did you dream about blood?

[hollystrike]

A one off dream is generally harmless if that's all it is.

[Given she had the exact same dream as at least one person here, she really doubts it.]

[pain_train]

okay that's really good to know thanks um i don't know if it would be something else like how do you tell

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[bi_otic]

I think most people don't remember their dreams. Sometimes you hold onto pieces of them right as you wake up. They almost always seem to be nightmares. Maybe they just make a deeper impression?

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[pain_train]

well that makes sense because your brain wants to remember stuff that scares you so you can stay alive better probably that's a good point