009 | Video

[second_first]

[Rei is sitting on her bed with her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around her legs. The room is dimly lit except for light coming through a thin crack in her curtains. Her face is turned away from the camera as she looks out through the space in the curtains. The bandages she had been sporting as she moved through people's dreams are absent in reality, though there is mottled bruising on her forearms.]

So that is dreaming.

[She's silent and unmoving for several long moments.]

A waste of time.

[She goes back to staring out the window. The feed times out.]

Comments

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

It's not a waste of time!

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I see no point.

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're just not looking hard enough.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Dreams are the result of the subconscious mind discarding data to prevent overload of the conscious mind.

[She found a book about it after she woke up. :|]

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

...[Helena has no idea what to say to that.] Did you get that out of an encyclopedia or something?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Instead of answering out loud, Rei picks up a book from the library about dreams and sleep and holds it up to the camera.]

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Right, well, I bet the people who wrote it never had a dream in their life.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I hadn't.

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well... You didn't like it?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

There was no point.

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

Some dreams don't, I guess. But even if it doesn't have a point, that doesn't mean it's a waste of time!

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Why?

[helena-campbell.livejournal.com]

...I don't know. [It's more like Helena can't put the idea into words. But dreams are important, to her.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei is quiet for a moment.]

Maybe.