Author commentary: Oh, a Jade/Rose chat. Let's enjoy this rarity. They finally have The Talk about dream selves, which is just as beneficial for the reader as it is for them. Rose gets at some spooky stuff with that last question. The truth is—as we start to infer later from some fucked-up events concerning Jade's dream self—that a dream self is actually a pretty distinct version of yourself. A separate person from your waking self, yet one whose mind is fully inhabited by your waking self's mind when you fall asleep and "wake up" as the dream self on Prospit or Derse, in the course of which the dream self is sort of "displaced" temporarily. Also, you can take over the dream self permanently if your waking self dies and is resurrected with a kiss, in which case the dream self that was inhabiting the dream body just dies. The dream self can also die independently of the waking self and then be resurrected as a totally separate person via prototyping (like Jadesprite). Long story short, Rose is right to be asking hard-hitting questions about this already. It's a complete morass of pseudospiritual quackery and existential dread.
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