[Voice] Looking for Patterns

[halfdarkened]

If anyone's up for it, how about some show and tell about the nightmares? ...I'll share mine on the board if anyone's interested in sharing theirs. Maybe there's a connection.

Comments

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Not being able to sleep would bother anyone. It's not like this is gonna force us to say what our nightmares are about. A lot of people don't dream about stuff that's real anyway.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

[Pause.]

I never said it'd force us.

The Organization can sample memories, at least here in this castle, whether we're willing or not. It's why I don't worry about talking about this.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

If they can sample our memories anyway, why would they be making us have nightmares?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

To see what's still bothering us.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

That still doesn't make any sense.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

We're in a city in a castle. Best I can do is make guesses.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Why would they go through the effort of giving us all nightmares just to learn something they can already find out?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Because some of us have moved on from our pasts or their inner demons. Others haven't.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

That doesn't change anything.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Why?

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

If they can find out what are memories are, they could tell whether we're still afraid of something or not. Giving us nightmares doesn't make that any different.

Re: [Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether they sample all or some of our memories, I guess. I'll leave memory and heart theories to Ansem the Wise.

You got any theories?

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Not really. I don't know a lot about this place.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...The more time I spend here, the more I find out I don't know, myself.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Do you know anyone besides the Organization who might be able to do this kind of stuff?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. But he's gone. And I don't think he'd do this.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

How would he have done it?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...Probably some sort of technology that involved digitizing our dreams to keep tabs.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

I doubt this place would have anything like that.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

...Not inside Paixao. In this castle, I'm sure it could be made if someone could figure out how.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

But you don't know how he made it work?

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

I never saw him make that. Just that this is his style.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

Then I'm not sure that really helps us.

[Voice]

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

Didn't say it would. Like I said, he's not here, and I don't see why he'd do this.

[Voice]

[mynamenotwhoiam.livejournal.com]

There has to be something.

Is there anyone you know here besides the Organization who would even want to torture everyone like this?