#cloud.soc

[system-of-clouds]

Hi! You're listed as the reference for https://pluralpedia.org/w/Oneiroway_System and I was hoping you could clear something up for me. Was the concept here similar to gateway systems or dreamways but for night dreaming instead of day dreaming? Or am I misreading?

Hello hello!

Basically it’s that an oneiroway system gains members when they sleep, through dreams. It doesn’t necessarily need to be at night when it happens. Daydreams happen when you are awake and dreamways gain members through daydreams. An oneiroway system gains headmates from dreams during sleep.

Does that make sense?

[system-of-clouds]

Us: knows we are a system

Also us: forgets we are a system “Why are we engaging in X hobby, I like Y hobby better?”

[system-of-clouds]

One funky thing about the way some of us join the system is through dreams. Dream headmates are a similar concept, and we do have a few of those, but most of the time when we gain a member through dreams it’s different.

We think it has to do with the way we dream. Sometimes in our dreams, we become different people, we live entire days, weeks, months as someone else. It’s as if everyone left front and this new person, the perspective viewer of the dream, is now in front and we now live as them. When we dream like this, we are not any of ourselves, we are someone new, someone else. And sometimes, we don’t gradually wake back into ourselves like normal.

Sometimes the person who wakes up is the person we lived as in our dream.

Whether they stay or leave appears random.

Unlike dream headmates, new members do not follow the dreamer out and no one is able to control or seek out headmates through dreams.

We’re definitely not a dreamway system since we are no longer a neuronarrator but we like to call ourselves a “dreamingway system”