#rolling my several sleeping/dreaming headcanons into one big masterpost

[tensleepshrike]

MILLIE AND SLEEP/DREAMING.

She's a rotisserie sleeper and heatseeker. If you share a bed with her, you can reasonably expect her to roll around the entire night and always have at least one limb draped over you.

Dreams regularly and vividly. Her dreams have occasionally been prophetic in nature but for very mundane events.

Sometimes, while dreaming, enters the Dreamlands, an alternate dimension/reality similar to our own but inhabited by extradimensional beings. She is lucid for these occasions and interacts minimally with her environment, preferring to hide until she wakes so as not to attract any more attention than what she already receives from her progenitor.

When in the Dreamlands, the sleeping vessel she leaves behind on Earth manifests shifting patterns on her skin like those of a dreaming cephalopod. The most common patterns are the vasculature of leaves, raised sigils, and star charts.

Has sleepwalking episodes once or twice a month coinciding with these sojourns to the Dreamlands. She usually ends up pacing around her apartment until she wakes but has been known to make it outside. The furthest she's walked is three blocks away. She can be spoken to in these states but replies in Deep Speech, which has been the ruin of a few good samaritans wishing to help her.

Divinity functions as a somewhat sadistic self-defense mechanism while she is having out of body experiences. Attempts to touch her will result in this happening ( tw for body horror/gore in linked gif! ).