The dreamtale twins canāt easily force someone to feel anything without having something to go off of.
They can nudge you in the direction they want you to go, but they have to have something to work off of first.
Dream can encourage positivity by a very simple thread of neutral emotion. Neutral can be coaxed into relaxation, or calm. From there it can be lifted into something a bit greater, like happiness or content. From there you can snowball; Joy! Excitement! Elation! Wonder! All from a single state of neutrality.
Nightmare can encourage negativity from the same neutral state. He can nudge neutral calm into a more hollow and empty feeling, from there he can push for anxiety or helplessness. Then fear, dread, terror, depression.
Itās a very simple pipeline that can be moved through in seconds if they really pushed it, neutrality is a very easy emotion to work off of.
Direct opposites require more effort then itās likely worth. But some emotions is like a color with slightly different shades.
An example; bright yellow would be anticipation or excitement while a darker yellow could be anxiety or nervousness. They are close enough that it would only take a bit of nudging to get one to shift into the other. They exist within the same vein.
Letās use this example with Nightmare, To bring someone from excitement to something like dread, heād have to purposely guide their emotions. Whispers of doubt, second guessing, suspicion, paranoia. Little bits of darkness can fairly easily turn that anticipation to anxiety. Theyāre similar enough that it wouldnāt require much effort on Nightmareās part, itās just shift in the way the person perceives and experiences that emotion.
But if, say, Dream was trying to coax a person from depression into happiness, direct opposites, ļæ¼he would have a bit more difficulty.
First heād have to stop the person from further spiraling, like putting down a net to keep them from falling any lower. A net of positivity that keeps them from careening ļæ¼towards the ground. Then heād have to nudge them into lesser negatives first.
He can coax depression into resignation, then push through grief into acceptance. Bits of positivity to smooth out their turbulent emotions into something lighter.
Acceptance; this is the way things are, no need to keep felling down about it! Bits of light, it could be worse!
From there, Dream can guide them into a state of calm, or at least near enough that he wonāt have to work as hard to get something more positive out of them. Happiness! Enjoy the moment! Live! Experience!
Needless to sayā¦ the drastic back and forth between a wide verity of influencedļæ¼ emotions ends up putting a strain on the soul.
Constant exposure to either of twins abilities without the opportunity to properly self regulate has someā¦ undesirable consequences.
