Can you explain the difference between Dragondreams and Greensight?
@zeciex
Both are hereditary prophetic seer abilities, where the seer is unconscious or semiconscious as they receive visions of what. Both often and almost always come in metaphorical and symbolic imagery.
One is inherited from First Men/children of the forest and wargs (those who have soul-transport into another living creature, almost always a nonhuman animal and control them) may or may not have this ability as well--greensight. The other is inherited from Valyrian bonds with dragons cultivated similarly to how greensight was amongst Pre-Conquest northern Westerosi and freefolk over the course of hundreds of years--dragon dreams. Dragon dreamers have thus far no evidence of being able to warg or have a similar ancillary ability.
Unlike greensight, dragon dreams often are about or have dragons but don't have to. We don't know for sure if one can arrange themselves to have a dream/vision or try to contro such, but it appears not for either ability. You could say they are the same ability given different names...but as I mentioned, they developed differently in different contexts and one has more dragons in them than the other, and I theorize it's bc dragon dreaming, more than green sight, is meant or has developed to focus more on those with Valyrian dragonriders' dragon-riding blood to guide them and "theirs" on how to maintain or follow up on those instincts and intuition built from the dragon bond. to guide them there.
Greensight may have been developed for or shared with humans from the Children to use against the Others and protect them (and not necessarily the Andals bc those guys hadn't appeared yet) like how dragon dreams protect the Valyrian dragonlords/riders.
It's quite clearly proof of how Bran and Dany are the magical heart of the series and parallel each other in this way.
