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Old 05-16-2017, 12:19 PM   #20
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#42): Doesn't Sleep, Less Sleep

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That's why I put in the extra -i-. Somnus, somni-, sleep; somnium, somnii-, dream. Though I suppose that could also be someone who dreams about food!
Hmmm... weird, only tangentially related question, what traits does someone with Doesn't Sleep need to be able to deliberately enter a dream state?

Will Autotrance do it, with the Dreaming skill governing how much control he has over his lucid dreams?

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(When you dream of eating, does the food have any taste? In my dreams, food is more like the abstract notion of food, without nutritive value or actual flavor.)
I can't remember ever having dreamt about eating. Well, I've dreamt about some alien critters who spent a lot of time eating brains, but I wasn't one of them in the dream. I was me. I did see them eat other unfortunates, but the dream ended before they et me. Not that I'm likely to have discovered what the brains tasted like if I was on the other end.

I do remember two occasions when the dream included a sense of taste. One was when I was killing a soldier at a train yard with a knife. I was a young teen in the dream and even an 18-year-old conscript was heavier than me, so as he was struggling and trying to breathe through a ruined throat, he fell on top of me. I kept the knife in the side of the neck and tried to jar it around to completely sever the artery and his blood leaked in my face. As I recall, it tasted like blood. It was shockingly warm, I remember that.

The other was somebody's lips. She tasted like strawberries. Well, fake strawberries. Gum or lip gloss, I guess.
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