Hey! I know this is kind of a weird question, considering it's being asked at this completely random time, and askpoison has been done for quite a while, but I'm extremely interested in how Poison's dreams work exactly, if you don't mind explaining. Like, why doesn't he dream except when it rains? When did this start happening? Or was it always like that? Anyway, thanks, I'd just really like to know.
Party Poison doesn't sleep well! Basically, he never has, it's just his biology to not be able to hit REM sleep. I'm not a doctor or even a sleep scholer, so my science is very loose here, but if you look at sleep stages, Poison spends more of his sparse sleep time in Stages 1-2, getting strictly what he needs to survive of Stages 3-4, and very rarely dipping into REM. A lot of this has to do TOO with the fact that they really CANT sleep too long without being on the look out, and generally you don't get to REM without being asleep for at least 90 straight minutes.
Basically he "dreams" all the time, as all of us do, but he doesn't remember them bc recall happens best from your REM stage. But the sound of rain is one of these soothing things, a lot of white noise to help you mellow out--so if he falls asleep while he can hear it raining, it helps him get longer sleep. As an added bonus, the kind of coverage zonerunners take to keep the rain off them (tarps, buildings, jackets, w/e) is just extra dark, another sleep aid.
Plus, nobody moves around in the dangerous rain, so they don't have to run from anyone.
Essentially, when it rains, he has the opportunity to sleep longer. When he sleeps longer, he's more likely to dream. When he dreams he has nightmares--which only makes it harder to sleep longer all the rest of the time! WHAT A LIFE.
