[Well, he nailed that. He isn't hurt by it, but it is still... saddening. Or painful, maybe but not for himself.]

Not really. There have only been brief periods where dreaming was even a theoretical option. Mostly, if my consciousness doesn't shunt off to the dream bubbles, or the Derse body or the dreamscape depending on availability, I'm just out.

[Like the working to exhaustion also may have things to do with that but not enough sample data here.]