An analysis of Ranboo’s conversation with “Dream” and what the voice might be because its 3 am and I have nothing better to do
“How long have you been in my head?”
“Well, forever, I’m you.”
“That doesn’t make sense, why now all of the sudden did you just randomly appear?”
“Well, I mean, you’re looking at your book, you’re looking at a smile, you’re thinking about Dream. You think about Dream a lot.”
The voice acknowledges that it is not Dream himself, but rather a severed part of Ranboo’s own mind. Ranboo simply heavily associates it with Dream, which is likely why it sounds so much like him. (We have also had outward confirmation that it is not the physical Dream himself).
“Yeah, I do, he’s the reason everything is going wrong.”
“What are some of the bad things Dream has done?”
“Well you, er, he fights against Tommy and Tubbo all the time [...]”
As much as Ranboo doesn’t like to see in terms of black and white sides, he is very insistent that Dream is The Bad Guy. He blames Dream for everything that has ever gone wrong on the server, even when they weren’t directly caused by him. He has stated several times that it should be Everyone vs. Dream. Dream is always in the wrong no matter what. This might contribute to him identifying the voice as Dream. It tells him bad things he did, but Dream is always the bad guy so it must be Dream.
“My memory is interesting. I remember big things, I would have remembered if I blew up the community house.”
“You do remember, this is you.”
“But how do you remember stuff that I don’t?”
“Well, it’s complicated, your brain is a funny place. I see two sides of you.”
This could be taken one of two ways. If the voice is a separate entity such as a Dreamon and is simply manipulating Ranboo, then it may be implying that there are two independent halves of Ranboo, neither of which are aware of each other, and it can see and interact with both of them independently.
On the other hand, if the voice is truly a part of Ranboo’s mind like it claims, then it may be speaking objectively when it says there are two sides. This would explain why it knows things Ranboo doesn’t, as it may be the other side it’s referring to and was the one consciously doing those things. When Ranboo first started to panic, he spoke to and about himself in the second person, using “you” and “we,” which the voice has continued doing. However, it still acknowledges that they are technically the same person, meaning “Ranboo” as a whole was still the one that did these things, even if the side we see through was not aware of it.
“No, you’re just what happens whenever I panic. This is my panic room and I’ve only talked to you here. There’s no way, this has to just be something with my past, there’s no reason for you to be here.”
“I’m here all the time, you just never open your mind to me unless you’re in the panic room, you don’t let me talk unless you’re in the panic room. You don’t listen to me. Even if I scream, you don’t listen unless you’re in this room.”
“But I don’t, I don’t want to talk to you. You tell me things that you, that you, apparently I did but I don’t think that I did those things. I mean, what else have I done, Dream? Because apparently there’s more, there must be more if there’s an entire, just...”
The Ranboo we’ve been following, intentionally or not, is making a mental effort to block out the voice because he doesn’t want to confront the things it tells him. It is only able to make itself heard when he is less than mentally stable. It is also to be noted that thoughts of Dream seem to trigger the voice, and whether that is because Ranboo associates it with Dream, because the thought of him causes Ranboo mental distress, or both are all equally possible.
“You helped Dream with the tnt that he used to blow up L’manberg, you helped Dream blow up the community house, you helped Techno, and he blew up L’manberg as well, and these are all things you’re blaming on Dream.”
“So I’ve been helping Dream?”
“Yeah, you help Dream all the time.”
“No, no, no, there’s no way that I’ve been, why would I help Dream?”
“Dream is the reason why there’s conflict, Dream is the reason why my friends can’t just be happy, why would I be helping him this entire time?”
“That’s something you should ask yourself.”
“I am asking myself! If you’re part of me, then I am asking myself right now.”
“You’re asking the wrong part of yourself.”
This last line once again is implying there’s a second half of Ranboo that’s separate and conscious to the one we watch. Given it is once again speaking objectively, it’s difficult to tell whether this voice is the literal manifestation of Ranboo’s other half trying to bridge the gap, or a separate entity entirely only informing him that it exists.
It’s also important to note that on Doomsday, Ranboo commented that he had moved from the spot he had previously logged out from, questioning whether he had left and done something the previous day or not. This foreshadowing gives much more weight to “Dream”’s accusations and is genuine reason to believe it is telling the truth rather than being manipulative, as this is likely when he (or his other half) supposedly supplied Dream and then left the chest of TNT in the panic room. (And a reminder that Dream himself likely doesn’t even know the panic room exists. This cannot be explicitly confirmed as we can’t know everything Ranboo’s other half has done or said, but the half we follow has not told anyone of the room’s existence or location, meaning no one but Ranboo himself could have left the TNT chest).
