Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140908200216/@comment-27026537-20141104220846

72.74.78.185 wrote: And also, why can't godhead wake up? It's not like he (or she) can't. We know he went to sleep at some point in the past, and the elder scrolls universe began. So why can't he awaken and end the universe.

Because it's a metaphor. The Godhead of the TES 'verse we usually see & hear about etc, retreated out of his reality into a void of all but himself; it is comparable to death, sleep, dream & so on but that isn't what it is. Metaphors that can be completely applied aren't metaphors; honestly go have a goo d look around r/TESLore. Even if he did wake up, the dream doesn't necessarily need the dreamer.

72.74.78.185 wrote: Also, why CAN'T he effect the dream. It's possible to lucid dream IRL, so it should be possible for the Godhead to interact with the events going on in his dream. Perhaps the hero of each game is just the godhead's version of himself in his dream.

He generally "can't" because he doesn't have the type of consciousness to be able to unite awareness and will, additionally - RL now; a Lucid Dream is generally defined as being aware that your dreaming: that does not automatically mean you can control it, usually I can but sometimes I can't dictate anything beyond my dream-selfs actions as if they were bound by the physics I wakingly live in. - back to TES; anything in the general TES 'verse that acts with another within the general TES 'verse is by definition the dreamer interacting with his dream (& himself).