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I remembered this mostly because I started up DDD in 2.8, but this question has been nagging me since 2012.
We're all aware of DDD's basic premise: Sora and Riku go into the Realm of Sleep for a test. As the name implies, all the worlds in the RoS are asleep; what the protagonists are running around in are dreams projected by the memories of a sleeping heart. In Sora's case, he's running around in the dreams of a world's heart.
Well, eventually, Sora arrives in the Grid. Like Space Paranoids and its movie equivalent, The Grid is a world within a world (Sam mentions escaping to the outside world to get rid of CLU), made up of data and programming. There're Dream Eaters everywhere, and there's even a Sleeping Keyhole to unlock, just like all the sleeping worlds. Only when Xemnas shows up, he says this:
Young Xehanort soon adds to this:
What these two are saying is that The Grid, being a world made of data, does not have a heart. And by lacking a heart, it also cannot dream, which means The Grid, as Sora experiences it, is real, and not a part of the Realm of Sleep, despite the hordes of Dream Eaters and the presence of a Sleeping Keyhole.
Just... how?? Why are all those RoS things present in a supposedly real world, and if it's not in the Realm of Sleep, how the heck did Sora randomly leave a realm? Travel to and from realms tends to require some serious magical help/deus ex machina and a person can't just "wander" in and out of them.
The only feasible explanation I can think of is that when the "outside world" of the Grid fell to darkness, the Grid fell with it into the Realm of Sleep, still moving forward in time despite the Dream Eater infestation. But then, why would the Sleeping Keyhole be located HERE instead of the actual sleeping outside world? ... And on a bit of a tangent, what would happen to any Grid inhabitants that leave the data world and enter the sleeping outside world? Would they just collapse and sleep until that world is awakened too?
Or maybe it's just a load of lies meant to confuse and discourage Sora. We've all seen data grow a heart and basically forge its own Keyblade, maybe it IS possible for data to dream as well.
I dunno. After all these years, I'm not sure what to think of this. Any thoughts?
We're all aware of DDD's basic premise: Sora and Riku go into the Realm of Sleep for a test. As the name implies, all the worlds in the RoS are asleep; what the protagonists are running around in are dreams projected by the memories of a sleeping heart. In Sora's case, he's running around in the dreams of a world's heart.
Well, eventually, Sora arrives in the Grid. Like Space Paranoids and its movie equivalent, The Grid is a world within a world (Sam mentions escaping to the outside world to get rid of CLU), made up of data and programming. There're Dream Eaters everywhere, and there's even a Sleeping Keyhole to unlock, just like all the sleeping worlds. Only when Xemnas shows up, he says this:
In a digital world... nothing is ever felt. You can hold a thousand, a million times the information, but there is still no heart with which to parse it.
Young Xehanort soon adds to this:
You think this is the realm of dreams, but there, you are mistaken. Data does not dream, cannot dream. This world is real.
What these two are saying is that The Grid, being a world made of data, does not have a heart. And by lacking a heart, it also cannot dream, which means The Grid, as Sora experiences it, is real, and not a part of the Realm of Sleep, despite the hordes of Dream Eaters and the presence of a Sleeping Keyhole.
Just... how?? Why are all those RoS things present in a supposedly real world, and if it's not in the Realm of Sleep, how the heck did Sora randomly leave a realm? Travel to and from realms tends to require some serious magical help/deus ex machina and a person can't just "wander" in and out of them.
The only feasible explanation I can think of is that when the "outside world" of the Grid fell to darkness, the Grid fell with it into the Realm of Sleep, still moving forward in time despite the Dream Eater infestation. But then, why would the Sleeping Keyhole be located HERE instead of the actual sleeping outside world? ... And on a bit of a tangent, what would happen to any Grid inhabitants that leave the data world and enter the sleeping outside world? Would they just collapse and sleep until that world is awakened too?
Or maybe it's just a load of lies meant to confuse and discourage Sora. We've all seen data grow a heart and basically forge its own Keyblade, maybe it IS possible for data to dream as well.
I dunno. After all these years, I'm not sure what to think of this. Any thoughts?