"...cease"

You wonder about the people in your dreams?

You dream, and there are people. People that you only know in your dreams. Who are they?

You have complex relationships with whole casts of characters. Whom on your awaking vanish. You forget them or at best have only a vague notion of them. What I wonder becomes of all those souls. Do they go on living their lives in the dream.

…or do they cease.

Dreams are brief. Seconds. At most minutes. However within this slim interval our companions have a whole existence. Do they know that their world is created, and perishes by our sleeping, and waking.

We are the sum of so many forgotten realms.

I wonder if our companions as their reality starts to de-pixelize as their world fades. I wonder if their last thought before oblivion is…

“Oh!…I was a Dream.”