#lucids oliver

[lullabyashes]

What are Memories if not Dreams Themselves?

[monarchetype]

hey can we create all of reality by simultaneously imagining each other and thus ourselves into existence and thereafter share the same brain yet be two different people or are you going to be weird about it

[leesbian42]

wait i have more on tadc ep 7 (Jax thoughts) and the very end of it, with LUCIDS ep3, so spoilers for both

also as just text post under cut bc idk how to get the scenes edited together so you'll just have to trust me (silly) on this fgryu

OKAY SO LUCIDS by Nicholas Podany first.

In this episode, Oliver is having an existential crisis while Mrs Hills is continuing to work with Benjamin to get her son. Oliver's part of this episode is the important one. You guys know that "do you blame yourself?" "what?" "the accident" audio that was going around a while back? Yeah, that. THAT'S the scene I want to talk about right now.

Oliver is revealed to not be from the same reality as Benjamin and Mrs Hills - he's in a dream, he's a dream, and it's implied to be because of a car accident he was in where his younger brother got severely hurt (implied coma here). Oliver finds himself talking to his therapist, which is where the audio comes from. The therapist goes on to say that it's normal to create a scapegoat of the situation, something [Oliver] can control when in reality it was nothing about it he could control. It's not his fault. There's more too, so I recommend watching the episode on youtube (it's like 10min long).

Keep this in mind now, as we move on to the tadc part of this

So, they are all told by Abel to go to Caine's office and find the way out of the Circus. I want to discuss when they have entered the supposedly way out.

Jax has been kinda freaking out for a while, even before this episode, and as Pomni is talking he freaks out more and sees these pictures of the real world. A building and a road, seemingly from a car. After this he in a panic hits the red button, and so dooms everyone to stay. Caine then shows up and says he KNEW they would pick the 'right' choice; to stay. To my understanding, it's here implied the things Jax saw is also not real and probably not even his memories, not fully. Also Zoogle says to Gangle that what they have in the Circus is real, that all of it has always been real. It's all real. (plz correct me on the name if i got it wrong again)

But what if it is?

WHICH IS NOW we get to the point i actually want to make here!!

To me, Jax is like Oliver. A dream, an avatar, somewhere where they're not 'real'. And someone who's trying to find anything to cling to, a scapegoat to blame for the hurt they unintentionally caused while in the Real World™. Jax and Oliver definitely go about it different ways, but just like the escape turned out to be fake, so is anything about Oliver. It is all a game. It is all a dream. And doesn't that tie it in so nicely with one of Pomni's very first lines? Is this all a dream? It's all a dream, nothing is real. So why does it feel that way? Why doesn't it feel like a dream, like a game? It's all so real. It's all so fake. AND!! just like how Zoogle said to Gangle, Mrs Hills tells Oliver that dreams are memories and memories are dreams, it's all real.

My theory, if those pictures are real, (for this reason) is that Jax had some kind of car accident before showing up to the Circus. Maybe even because of it. And now, he copes with it similarly to Oliver, though i think the situations will always be different.

Idk I think there's a really nice parallel between these two scenes and characters aaaa

[ghostwhrt]

Oliver & Benjamin 💚🧡

[pandalandalopalis]

yes this is where that tiktok meme comes from

LUCIDS

[pandalandalopalis]

LUCIDS

[pandalandalopalis]

So what happens when the people inside of our dreams go to sleep? What happens to them when we wake up? Do they go on living like we’re there? Or do they just pause until we go back to bed? And who are they anyway — are they pieces of our consciousness, our memories. . . . Or do they evolve independently in a place in our minds we can’t quite reach? Because I mean, like, and this is purely hypothetical, but if you grew up with a deep —and I mean, like, God deep— understanding that the squirrel in Spongebob was your soulmate, would that make every single person in your dreamscape a secret Sandy simp? I don’t know— You know what I’m trying to say? Oliver? Oliver? Oliver?

LUCIDS — acted, written, directed, edited, and scored by Nicholas Podany