The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

I like your thinking. The fade sounds very much like its based our own dream world.. From what i understand of it it is shaped by a persons thoughts, emotions and expectations (much like our dreams). What Solas does when he falls asleep in ancient ruins is basically lucid dream (which is supposedly a real phenomenon). The time thing you mentioned sounds pretty much spot on since dreams can seem to last ages but yet in reality only take minutes. Time passed very differently when the veil was down. Its hard to wrap head round sometimes but i love stuff like this.

I've not explained myself very well, i know what i mean in my head but its hard putting it into words. So, just ignore last comment 😱 either way its safe to say that there will be chaos if / when the veil is torn down!

Solas silly dad that screencap was for the numbers lol

lovelykotori videos ? I wish they were Iethallan. It's all way-too-HD-for-my-own-good screenshots. Ultra quality on characters, medium-low on everything else. Knowing your priorities, very much so. :nods: I dread the time when I'll have to go through the whole folder and discard the bad pictures... Because I'm not even half done taking them ! I'm trash.

I might buy an external harddisk to store all this madness without ever deleting anything..............
Solasmance hell what are you making me do

Hah, something is definitely fishy regarding Time™, Bioware got me scared about every single possible thing to ever be concerned for I swear.
I get the "dreamt for 10 mins and the whole night has passed" feel as well. I wonder what it will be like in DA

I wonder if we'll have conversations/confrontations with Solas in the fade. Would be neat. Ooh, what if the protag in the next game is also a dreamer?

I'm sort of a semi-lucid dreamer, but it is quite hard to "steer" or change my dreams. But I am always aware that I'm dreaming even though it feels like I'm living it, and if something doesn't end up as I want to I can easily "restart" the scene. But oftentimes the end result is the same since the changing of a scene is the hardest. It feels like it is resisting, like moving through tar and making slow progress, and then being snapped back into the original position or scene.

Sometimes I can dream of the same scenario twice but in separate "naps", and then the real time can pass by in very different speeds (from my perspective). I can restart a dream scene 10 times and wake up 10 minutes later, but I can just as well end up with restarting a scene three times and waking up 8 hours later. This leads to me always being very confused when I wake up^^

Anyway.....Solas! Great guy
(Only dreamt of him once, sadly)

Edit: weird coding appeared out of nowhere, now removed^^

Art post.

Solas and Lavellan kissing.
Source: destinyapostasy.tumblr.com/post/150033496057/quick-sketch-before-work-byeeeeee

WIP: 'May the Dread Wolf Take You' (Solavellan)
Source: espamistwalker.tumblr.com/post/150028634469/i-got-inspired-and-had-to-do-another-piece-xd-may

omg Tanyara that's way too hardcore... I'm glad my brain is kind on me LOL

Stick in the Mud Hah I don't know about bananas I never eat these, I should keep track of my condition when my lucid dreaming triggers, it's mostly when i'm deeply getting lost in "daydreaming" while falling asleep, sometimes I just keep consciousness with me as I fall in dream mode. Less frequently it would just pop in the middle of the night...
LOL at GDL cosplaying though xD Does he have any idea of how much the stuff about him is escalating I wonder all the time hahaha

I realised I never dream of people, it's more like... spirits, presences. I'm able to dream about people i haven't met yet because i almost never have faces in dreams, but it doesn't bother me, it feels natural, idk how I can explain. Something like "stfu it's magic"-tier logic and my brain never asks
But I think I can remember seing Solas' brows in one of the dreams I must have seen him clearly
So he's more real than actual people to me now ? Alright lol, please don't get creeped out, less hardcode members of the fort. I'm not going to do any harm

I've had a couple Solas dreams. Sadly, I don't remember them anymore. I don't remember most of my dreams.

I don't think I've ever really lucid dreamed - like to the point where I have full and conscious control over my dreams. But I've definitely had a few dreams where I realized I was dreaming. Usually it results in me immediately waking up (Especially in the case of a nightmare.) sometimes it results in me just... going with it. Like it's a distant realization that I do nothing about.

I pretty frequently have "sequel" dreams too, though. Like I'll go to sleep, have Dream One, wake up, and then go to sleep a while later and have Dream One: Part Two. It's the same dream, not on repeat, but an extension of the original one. There have even been times when I had a dream of a really interesting story and tried to fall back asleep again to see it play all the way out My dreams tend to have fairly coherent narratives. They still make no damn sense, but they're usually a progressive series of related events instead of just... randomness.

I notice (Usually afterwards - I don't have the required prescene of mind in the dream itself to realize this) how my thoughts influence the dream, too. Like if I'm in a situation that I think should be scary, even if it isn't, then it will become scary. Usually that's how my nightmares start - from fairly innocent dreams that have one detail that I believe should be terrifying. For instance, I recently had a dream about a lunar eclipse, and I thought to myself "Eclipses should be scary, right?" which made the sky turn red and caused monsters to attack me.

I don't think I've ever seen Solas in a dream. I think I saw Alistair once. And I dream about Disney characters a lot, for some reason.

*Distant groaning* Oh please no. No more time travel. Ditch the stupid time travel. Leave it in the sci-fi bargain bin where it belongs. 

That's very much my experience with lucid dreaming, I always have some degree of awareness that I am dreaming, even if I don't always have full control over what events or dream physics I can effectively manipulate at any given moment.

I have dreamed of Solas a couple times, although usually only briefly.

Welcome! It's great to have you here, some of us are new too with fresh feels!
AlleluiaElizabeth: I haven't started Trespasser yet, hopefully this weekend I'll get to play a few hours but being almost a year old I've had it pretty spoiled, so I don't mind if you discussi it with no spoiler tag

Weekes may like Dr. Who. but it was the David Tenant Dr he was inspired by for Solas. This was found in the interview with BioFan after Trespasser. The question on character inspiration starts about the 3 min mark. writersofthedas.tumblr.com/post/142113796489/biofanblog-biofan-interview-patrick-weekes

He gives a few specific reasons why he chose David's character and I found it rather interesting that I sensed that long before hearing this interview. The things he thought were great about David's Dr. were the things that drew me in with Solas. He's this humanitarian, very compassionate and every once in a while you see this ancient being with vast amounts of wisdom peeking out.

That isn't to say that time travel/time magic won't make another showing, but it's been used in such a small amount that I don't think it's going to suddenly be a big issue. At least I hope not. While I like some time travel stuff I don't want it to be a big part of the DA series, I think it would really mess things up too much by throwing it in as a major part of the next game. One minor change to the past can cause major issues in the future!