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thedreamparadox · 2 years ago

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it was mentioned in one of your fics (don't remember exactly which) that not all dreams or nightmares take place in nightopia. So what about nightmares induced by medication like prolonged melatonin use or some psychiatric meds? Are they not nightmaren related?

Not inherently! Humans are just as able to dream up regular old bog standard nightmares that don't have a single thing to do with Nightmaren, just like humans can dream up good dreams that aren't in Nightopia. Whether or not the shadow/smoke monsters we see in the games are Nightmaren or not is something I keep waffling on, but we see the transition from pretty standard nightmare to Nightopia in both NiD and JoD.

While Nightmaren would absolutely take advantage of nightmares in progress to steal Ideya, most nightmares aren't actually their fault.

#answered asks;;#as cool as the magic fantasy angle is human brains are wild without it #plus all nightmares being from nightmaren would put wizeman at a scale where like #he totally would have succeeded in his plans way before the events of NiD #nightmaren can just boop between dimensions however they want but getting to non-nightopias is harder for them #but turning a non-nightopian dream into a nightmare is easier without nightopians anchoring the good part of the dream #come to think of it that explains how the canon kids can have fine nightopias that are just filled with nightmaren #nightopians are vital for the ecology of the dream world #they also happen to be very edible if you're a nightmaren #dream guides may or may not be able to boop between dimensions idk it hasn't come up in anything. leaning toward no #NiGHTS meanwhile bypasses both of these things because lucids are OP and they can do the door teleport thing

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