Meaning of the Dream

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When a person sleeps, particularly during the REM cycle, it is said that is the time that the brain processes the day's events, during which time we tend to dream. It is likely because of this that dreams can be interpreted in some ways to actual real life events, because the brain is in the process of....well, processing things. There are far more studies out there that will be far more technical about it than myself, but today I'm not particularly going into the mechanics of the how, who, what, when and whys for this post. Rather, I will be speaking of the fact that, while not a major part of the story, Dreamwalkers does have an element of dream interpretation involved.

As many of the cases are somewhat episodic, though tied around a central plot, this does mean there are characters, other than the main cast, who might appear for only a single case. This means that there isn't a huge amount of time to talk about side character back stories. After all, the main cast gets the entire series to develop in, and it would certainly start to get annoying if I gave a full biography of every one shot character that might show up. Not only would it bog down the comic, but would also take away from the more natural feel of the events.

As such, a 'show, not tell' approach seemed to be a good idea. Now, how might one tell info about a character without physically talking about it? Well, this is where the dream interpretations come into play. The events of each person's dream differs with each new person. After all, they wouldn't all dream the same thing, and with various types of Onreios, it would certainly be interesting to see how the Dreamwalkers cope on the missions. But not only that, there would be clues to the persons lifestyle in the dreams themselves, insecurities and personal demons which might cause bad dreams in a regular person being used by the Onreios to be twisted against the person in question. If one also applied dream interpretations to it, you could also pick out what those insecurities and demons might actually be.

Not only that, but, in a way, each fight becomes somewhat symbolic of the victim in question being helped around their own insecurities, though in a more direct way, by facing the Onreios that is taking advantage of the securities.

Of course, not everyone would want to spend time looking up interpretations to the dreams, so at the end of each mission that involves a new dream, there will likely be a fact file speaking of the dream interpretation and the Onreios in question. But still, it might be an interesting game to attempt to work out what problems the people have by looking at the dream itself first, at least for those who might be interested in doing so.

Still, some dream interpretations are father fascinating, so I would recommend looking some of them up. Its actually pretty interesting what your subconscious comes up with when the dreamer has particular insecurities or stress that is plaguing them.

Still, what are people's thoughts on this method of storytelling, to let the actual environment also help in the telling of the story itself through the dream interpretations? I'm interested to hear your thoughts, or even if there are any dream interpretations you might like to see in future instalments. Who knows, I might even do that for you (with a dedication to the one who suggests the idea, of course :)

But for now, I hope you all have good dreams

Until next time!

Tara