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One thing I can't stand about most fictional depictions of dreams is how much sense they make to the waking mind. I don't know how it is in anyone else's head, but the vast majority of my own dreams have, at best, a vague plotline* and some kind of internal logic, both of which only half make sense upon waking up. There's a thread of connectedness from one idea fragment to the next, so it's not total surrealism with no interlinking at all, but it's not enough that it would feel like something that could just as easily happen while awake. When there's more than one consciousness involved in a fictional dream- some entity intruding on the sleeper to get a message across, or what have you- it gets more complicated, but it just doesn't seem like it should take the form of a simple conversation.

All of which is a complicated way of saying that I got the next part of Sam's life at college up at tangled_metal, which is where all of the NPC stuff for the Rise of the Fallen AU plot is happening. There may be some posts in other characters' journals, like Ratchet or Lissar or Optimus, but for the most part it's centralizing there. And writing for a standard human dream is one thing, but writing an alien consciousness trying to integrate itself with a human one is a pain in the tuchus.

*For example, "I have to get to the cafeteria before the costume store closes, they're selling tiger suits at the salad bar and it's very important that I get one"

**Again, for example, "I am not running fast enough on two feet, so I will bend over and start using my fingers to push off as well, because OF COURSE I can run much faster on all fours than I could on two legs"