#also am i projecting my hynogagia onto arthur all the time

[mister-eames]

Day 27 of @inception30daychallenge: A headcanon about dreamshare.

We all know frequent use hinders a users ability to dream outside of the PASIV, but I think use easily leads to other sleep issues like insomnia, sleepwalking, night terrors, and hypnagogia. I think the early, military version of the drug was much, much nastier in terms of side effects --- and although in present Inception it’s much more refined, it’s still unregulated --- there are common side effects upon waking for most users - frequent or not - such as migraines and nausea, dizziness, mood disturbance, vision disturbance, etc. But they have to dose up their mark(s) with this stuff, it can’t leave them obviously worse for wear or addicted -- otherwise it’d be a telltale sign of extraction/foul play. And same goes with dreamers. They avoid the drug as much as possible. It’s like drinking a cheap bottle of red wine. No one likes that. 

Like, as amazing as somnacin is for the “pure creation” of dreams, I think the side effects often keep most dreamers from going too crazy with it. Like alcohol. Most people can keep it to the job. Recreational dreaming aint worth the awful hangover and blues, but on an infrequent basis for a handsome paycheque, they will tolerate it. But the sleep disorders linger. Ariadne sleepwalks. Cobb sleeptalks. Eames sleep-eats. Nash is an insomiac.