The Decayer pointed at his eyes. "The icons in my field of vision are so obvious. Does this count as real?"
Liriel shook her head solemnly. "Icons can only be considered some unknown supernatural phenomenon. You can't confuse them with whether something is real or not."
"I'll give you an example, and you'll understand."
"Under my teacher's guidance, I once visited a dream relic left in the Dream Realm by a legendary dream wizard. It was probably the most stable dream I had ever experienced in my life."
"And in that dream, you would see the ground rise and fall from time to time, the outlines of buildings shift from solid lines to dotted ones, clouds in the sky like building blocks. Even within the relic carefully constructed by that dream wizard, the air rippled like waves, and the rooms changed in size..."
The Decayer said, "This... counts as a stable dream?"
Liriel chuckled. "See? You think it's strange too, right? But this was actually the most stable dream I had ever encountered. Walking was truly walking, not weightless floating leaps. Walls could truly stop people, doors on buildings could truly be opened, and the whole dream had stable lighting... When all these elements gathered in the same dream, then without question, it was stable."
"Hard to believe?" Liriel shrugged. "But that's the truth. Dreams have always been bizarre, and this was a dream deliberately constructed by a legendary dream wizard. That was why it could appear so stable."
"The dreams ordinary people experienced were all naturally born. You already find artificial dreams bizarre, let alone these natural dreams."
The Decayer recalled, "But I remember that the dreams I had didn't seem that strange?"
Liriel said, "That's normal. You don't find them strange because the dream revolves around you."
"You'll