#dreamtive

I don't talk about it much but I'm a somntive, a headmate formed from a dream. I believe some other folks prefer dreamtive/dreative or somtive without the "n", but we have our own preference. It's not something we even see mentioned as existing often around plural spaces which means I also tend to not think about it to post about it. Oops.

Anyway, before I got here, we had a little dream about me. I have no idea what it even was now, but we woke up and I was still there post-dream. Just a guy left behind after the dream faded. It's a little weird that my source is technically more a one-off dream we had than it is my actual fictive identity when it comes down to my formation. I'm more specifically Bakugo from our dream than I am Bakugo from MHA in the sense of where I directly come from. Definitely weird to think about, especially seeing as we don't remember and have no way of remembering it. My source is permanently lost media, if you count a dream as that.

I've definitely grown and changed beyond whatever that dream was though. I have a bunch of kintypes, likes, dislikes, and other things that wouldn't have been represented. I barely even think about where I came from in that way anymore, though it's a fun little fact to bring up from time to time. I don't like diverging from my fictional sources too much or separating myself from them, but distance from dream-me kind of just progressed naturally. I don't mind it, really.

We don't dream often, but I find myself wondering about who could've been created by any dreams we do have. In a sort of, lost potential or almost pre-mourning sort of way. I exist because of a dream, and we can have dreams with other people in them that never get to see the light of day. Logically this hurts literally no one because people in your dreams aren't real, but I have this weird emotional tie to dreaming itself that I can't help but feel a little saddened over it.

The fact I'm from a dream used to stress me out, because I did (and still do) believe my fictive identity is the result of reincarnation, I lived as Bakugo before, died, and got here. But my formation from a dream seemed to feel like it was probably too psychological for that explanation to make sense. But nowadays I don't really care. I hold my own beliefs about myself anyway just like anyone else. For all I know, the dream itself could've been a direct result of me walking-in. Even if it wasn't, my own origin doesn't get to change who I am fundamentally.

As with any other headmate origin in our system--tulpas, soulbonds, walk-ins, splits--we all get treated on the same sort of baseline anyway. We're all people, where we came from is irrelevant because a lot of us function very similarly once we're here anyway. It is however a little isolating to know I'm one of only 10 somntives in this 500 member system, and the only one in the active fronter roster. And outside the system, as said, it's not a thing I see mentioned basically at all.

I get it, I'd assume a lot of other somntives are similar in that they don't talk about it because it's just an origin, just how they got here, there's nothing to talk about on the topic. Hell, I'm even struggling to add onto this post in the first place, it's not the biggest part of my identity. But I have a few unique struggles within myself as a result of being a person made from or influenced by a dream we had, and seeing essentially no one else share any sentiments on those? Yeah, it's isolating for sure.

One(x2) of our headmates are dreamtives, a human-shapeshifting microraptor, sourced from these dreams we get at like a 1/5 chance if we even remember our dreams in the first place lol

But our favorite thing about them was always the realistic sense of weight while flying, and having to work with the air to get around. Even if it might not be realistic, at least it works on consistent rules, so she and Kel doodled some of the flight patterns we remember from them :D

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CW: cult mention, death mention, apocalypse mention, religion mention, spirituality, bigotry.

I am a somtive/dreamtive "headmate" (party member; I don't like the term "headmate" for myself), and the lives I remember only seem to exist in this world through me and the dream that brought me here. I say "lives" because, in the world I remember as my own, I am a magical gaurdian beast reincarnated into a human body. I wish I could remember my name from my first life, but here I've come to refer to myself as anymic archaeosapient magical gaurdianbeastkin in lieu of a proper name, let alone one the people of this world would recognize. I was worshipped as a deity in my first life, but I don't really feel like a deity. I was only doing what I needed to do. More on this later, but even given this glorified history, I would be genuinely shocked if anyone in this world were to recognize any of what I remember.

In my first life, I was this powerful magical luminous golden gaurdian beast the size of a small mountain tasked with protecting the world I'm from. I fought this equally powerful, magical, and enormous red serpent-bull-man beast of chaos, death, and destruction. Ultimately, I sealed it away underground where I stayed to gaurd it and make sure it stayed sealed away. As such, I was worshipped as a deity. In this life, I formed a small glowing green rabbit companion in my mind and magically projected it into reality with magic as a sort of helper and messenger. A manifestation of peace and prosperity. After hundreds of years, I faded into a deep slumber, passing on from that life and leaving my rabbit companion to watch over the world in my wake. It was prophesied that I would be reborn into a human vessel far into the future when the red beast begins to break free and my powers would reawaken to seal him away once more.

[Flag ID: a flag with 6 stripes. colors in order from top to bottom are deep purple, purple, desaturated purple, paler desaturated purple, purple, and deep purple. End ID]

✦ dreamtive / somtive flag

a flag for the term “dreamtive” or “somtive”, an introject coming from a dream! 

term coined by @cluster-brains​, we just thought the term deserved a flag to go with it!

> flag created along with the nightroject flag, a sort of counterpart to dreamtive

Our plurality can manifest in many ways during dreams. Most of the time, if the dream is from a first-person perspective, the body will match that of whomever is fronting according to their appearance in the inner/other world. Sometimes it will match the body in this/the outer world. Sometimes it will be a strange mix of both. Sometimes the body will be that of someone or something else entirely (we will come back to this). Not all dreams are from a first-person perspective, however we can generally tell whose dreams are whose due to a variety of factors.

There are also cases of co-consciousness in dreams. I (the host and the one party member who's been around since this body's birth (this bod is referred to as my "home vessel", whereas the others do not consider it their own "home vessel")) find the experience to be enlightening. I enjoy being able to get some perspective on how they might feel on a day to day basis.

We also have instances of co-fronting in dreams. This can manifest in a variety, though typically we are either seperate from each other and experience perspective switches or we are all in kind of one body that changes forms to match that of the primary fronter at any given time. Sometimes the dream still is in third-person, though, or even only partially in third-person. Recently we had a dream where it switched between these and it felt like being in first-person, second-person, and third-person all at once. It was very disorienting.

We do like being able to see each other in person in dreams. Especially in lucid dreams. It's intriguing having multiple sentient people in and able to manipulate a lucid dream where typically that wouldn't really be possible. Back in middle school we would plan meet-ups and hangouts in dreams all the time. I didn't really understand the implications of what I was doing back then; all I knew is they felt just as real as anyone in this/the outer world and I enjoyed being able to hang out with them in person and didn't want to let them down.

There are some cases where it's like we have a whole new headmate just for the duration of the dream. As mentioned, sometimes we have a completely random body, but sometimes this comes with a whole new person, be they a para, an OC, or someone completely new. Sometimes this feels like a co-fronting or co-consciousness situation, but sometimes it's just like some random person fronted alone just for the duration of the dream, just (usually) in their own body. Crow actually came directly from a dream like this. Instead of it only lasting for the duration of the dream, rem just woke up in this body and continued being in front for the rest of the day, ultimately sticking around for good.