It's a dream influenced by memories that you can access through a specific machine, and working through the memory locks in the Somnium can help them remember something, or help soothe a trauma.
[ whoa. that's fascinating - his nerdy little brain wants to understand that immediately and ask about fifteen thousand questions about the actual machine, but he will not do that to poor date. ]
It sounds like the sort of thing we would use. Or, at least, the kind of thing that might be a part of Eden. Do you work with it often?
If you're thinking of "therapy en route to solving crime", then yes. The girl who that Somnium belonged to found a body -- and traumatised herself mute in the process.
[ well, that kind of makes sense. this he can contextualize - if it's someone's brain, then yeah, maybe they wouldn't see the same body, but someone else they just knew...? who knows. he won't pursue the line of questioning though, instead just pursing his lips briefly, thoughtful. ]
You can interact with a Somnium, you're not just... walking through it like it's an audio tour. There's every chance you'll uncover something big, or nothing at all depending on what you do.
Or you could stir up a bad memory instead of a good one.
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[ ... he tilts his head. ]
Well. None of it there was real. That's a Somnium.
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Somnium? Like a dream?
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It's a dream influenced by memories that you can access through a specific machine, and working through the memory locks in the Somnium can help them remember something, or help soothe a trauma.
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[ whoa. that's fascinating - his nerdy little brain wants to understand that immediately and ask about fifteen thousand questions about the actual machine, but he will not do that to poor date. ]
It sounds like the sort of thing we would use. Or, at least, the kind of thing that might be a part of Eden. Do you work with it often?
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[ :( ]
...
[ he briefly looks amused. ]
It's in my profile. It's my job.
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I meant the therapy part. [ considering all those questions he was asking before trying to make him Talk About Things!!!!!
but now this. ] ...So, was the body in the Somnium the one that she found...?
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That's a side effect of the investigating. Sometimes we focus on it though. [ he'd be a terrible therapist though. ]
No. That was a surprise.
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[ well, that kind of makes sense. this he can contextualize - if it's someone's brain, then yeah, maybe they wouldn't see the same body, but someone else they just knew...? who knows. he won't pursue the line of questioning though, instead just pursing his lips briefly, thoughtful. ]
...Did you end up helping her?
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[ ... ]
She regained her speech a little while afterwards.
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...That's good, at least.
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Yeah.
That was a relief, at least.
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...Want me to stop asking about it?
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What happened?
[ tell your therapist the deets ]
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[ >:( ]
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Or you could stir up a bad memory instead of a good one.