traitorous fifth column secret fae here to tear apart the human world floorboard by floorboard with my teeth
we are always learning things about the world, and so excited to share them with you
see @iliana for our good posts
for clarification, 80% of what i mean by this post is that i wish i could react in extremely over-the-top dramatic animation gags when people say stuff like "youre cute" to me
but 20% of what i mean by this post is that i wish i could be a nichijou in real life
u can make your daydreams cooler if you want, we think. they are your daydreams
Our daydreams are completely non-lucid so this is actually impossible for us
If you think "daydreams are completely non-lucid" sounds weird, that's because lucid daydreams are not supposed to be impossible, and yet they are for us. A normal person can intend to stay lucid in a daydream, but we... can not
are you sure you're daydreaming and not legit falling asleep because I've never had non lucid ones
Yes, I know it's daydreaming because our real senses are still connected, so any touch or movement will snap us out of it in a way that can't happen with normal sleep.
It is actually how we discovered that our daydreams are non-lucid: we were trapped in one for around three hours, and completely forgot the body even existed, until it felt a movement and we suddenly snapped out of the daydream.
This has been true for our entire life, though. Being in a dream or daydream has always unconditionally caused us to be certain that it is reality. It is not possible for us to doubt what we perceive, even if it really is our imagination, no matter how random or unbelievable it is.
We just sort of know what we saw, and therefore, it happened the way we saw it even if it isn't obeying the laws of physics or science.
(We have many examples of full dreams where any reasonable person would have become lucid, but we did not because we were already fully certain that we were not in a dream. And then we eventually woke up, go figure.)
You may notice this is very adjacent to psychosis...
that sounds like first stage sleep, re: things able to snap you out of it still
We can't provide a guarantee over text chat unfortunately, but we can say that we have never even once had a lucid daydream, regardless of whether or not we have had non-lucid daydreams.
We define "daydream" as any imagination that we can clearly see and interact with while not asleep.
We don't have aphantasia so it is relatively easy to create scenes in our head and treat them like daydreams, but they are not really daydreams (they are not very vivid and we still see the blackness of our closed eyes extremely strongly/obnoxiously), so we aren't super interested in exploring them.
We cannot induce sleep paralysis or hypnagogia without forgetting everything and becoming non-lucid. We've tried. The only thing we have ended up with in the entire history of our life is a single dream about sleep paralysis, almost as if just to tease us.
