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[It's ridiculously late at night, or early in the morning, depending on your POV and rather than sleeping, Rose is huddled up in a blanket, looking like a sheet-ghost, barely illuminated in the dark by the blue hue glow of the tv showing.... Disney movies, what else?]

[She's got a bowl of caramel corn that she doesn't look too interested in, and a mug of tea that probably looks cold. And even without the mascara staining her face, the TARDIS herself probably is enough indication that Rose is a bit of a mess mentally/emotionally. Nothing new though.]

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How do you stop dreaming certain things?

And before you point out that dreams are your consciousness working on unresolved issues; I know. But there's no resolution, and dreaming isn't fixing or helping them, ta.

Also, everyone show off what you're wearing to prom, I need something to take my mind off it. And if you're not going, what are you doing instead? Anything fun?

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I am going to ask a really stupid question, because my life has been very strange. What is 'prom'? I've gathered enough to know it's a special, seasonal dance. But what makes it different?

[Someone missed out on a normal High School life. And Middle School...and Elementary school. Being home-schooled in a pre-apocalypse'll do that for ya.]

[Cute!]

[Rose has to think on this... and finally:]

To be honest, I have no idea.

I THINK it's just that it's near graduation so it's extra hyped for timing going into summer. And then maybe something to do with how more weddings on Earth were traditionally in spring, because flowers and smelling better.

So prom is like. A make believe wedding dance for teens. Without the painful parts of marriage. Or weddings.

But don't quote me on that.

[Which you can't anyway, because she's still anon, HAH!]

.......Not even sure if they had that on the Earth I'm from, even before things got bad.

[You can't see it, but he's shrugging.]

If sleep isn't helping, try meditating? It's not quite as restful at first, but if it's practiced enough it can be just as good. Masters of it can achieve amazing things.

Got bad? What happened?

It was more of a 20th / 21st century thing if I remember my timelines right. Got popular in UK and Europe after a bit, thanks to pop culture.

[She's done yoga, but if she says that, it COMPLETELY outs her, not that she's super well disguised already, but still.] How do you do that?

Lots of things.

[That's not an answer, but that's all she's getting over the network for now.]

Easiest way to start meditating is to use your breathing, and close your eyes. Sit, or stand--some position that you're comfy and relaxed but not so relaxed you'll fall asleep. Then you just focus on synching your breathing with your heart. Like 4 beats inhale, 4 beats exhale.

[That's okay, she's used to it.]

I think I can do that, thank you.

I'm not sure it'd be a substitute for sleep though. I'm only human and not too good with magic. [Yet. Though she can definitely ask Mirajane and the guild about sleeping spells...]

Nothing wrong with being human. I did also say it's not a substitute, but it can help and be restful. Far as I know, it's also not magic--not alone. Depending on how meditation is integrated, it might be useful in certain energy manipulations, but I'm not sure if I'd call that 'magic' either.

Kick the dumass dreams in the face

That's good! I'm a little more familiar with science-babble than magic-science to be honest.

So maybe just being more relaxed would help with the rest? Yeah?

[SHE LAUGHS SO HARD AT THAT.]

How?

Is that what you do?

[But then she depresses herself imagining punching the Doctor in her dreams in the face and that is never ever going to happen. :< boo.]

If nothing else, it'd help you sort your thoughts before you go to sleep too, once you're in a calm and controlled setting. If you really want to try dealing with them though, depending on what's bothering you, try 'image training'.

Image training?

By dreaming about other things!

Sorry you've bad dreams; you might stop dreaming altogether. I've read of one who willed them away by saying (and believing): "Sleep is here, and sleep is good. Sleep is here."

[Ted, with a growing dislike of unreal things, would take a hatchet to dreams if he could.]

Ideas that if u can take control u can direct the dream the way u want it 2 go So wat wud u rather dream abt?

"Oh. Well it's hard to control your dreams. Steering the conscious mind toward something else works sometimes. But not always. Sis sometimes has really vivid nightmares so I will use my power to help her." She was the youkai of the unconscious mind, and all.

There was a pause.

"Also, what's a prom?"

I don't know.

Adventures I guess.

[But even that is... How can she? Without the Doctor, it wasn't adventures, just trials and tribulations.] Or having fun here instead of remembering the past, yeah?

How? What other things?

Really?

[Rose debates just locking her reply back and un-anoning herself, but even that would be extra obvious so maybe in a bit.]

How does that work? Your power?

[She knows, but it's part of the anon disguise :V]

Prom is a big dance where they get super dressed up and act all formal.

Yes, I've really read that. Whether saying so produces the effect I don't know, but it couldn't hurt. Granted, the character who said so was one of those who is only ever right for the wrong reasons, so take it with a grain of salt.

Unless, like Jane Studdock, your dreams are prophetic, in which case shutting them up would be foolish.

[If it's who he thinks it is, they'll be familiar with That Hideous Strength]

[Face palms.]

I don't think they're prophetic, no. Just stupid.

Like I said, unresolved issues, except there's no way to resolve them.

Which character in which book was saying that? "Sleep is here, and sleep is good. Sleep is here."

I'm not sure I want to give up dreaming entirely, but I don't want to dream of the past that makes me sad. Or things that are pointlessly depressing.

[Waking up crying is a terrible way to start a day.]

Issues with persons? I fully understand the feeling if so. Awfully hard to change, those.

That would be Myrtle Fox in "Descent into Hell"; excellent read, and not nearly as bleak as it seems. It went good, here, then good again, for the formula. She also repeated the same thing at morning, but said "life" instead of "sleep."

Definitely. Besides they're not even here.

Sounds more like an attitude towards life.

<font face="Courier'>My condolences; prayer, I think, is the only palliative that comes to mind. A belief about life and sleep, certainly, in that they're regarded as both good and inevitable; not to be fought.

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