So, wait... Princess Luna governs the dream realm and helps ponies

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You cannot have a nightmare if you never dream.

>>30170751
No, I think it was meant to be like "If you start processing some pony's dream and stop the procedure before the trauma has been solved it could have serious effects on their psyche".

Kinda like, you know, if a surgeon starts operating your heart and stops midway because "I can't take it anymore", it could end up killing you.

Are you questioning MLP?

You don't know what Luna's been doing all those years, maybe she's still doing therapies while staying on the moon.
Then again we shouldn't care too much about the worldbuilding of a show which ponies could talk since the writers obviously don't care either.

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>>30170758

Before that stupid flashback in which Nightmare Moon named herself, part of my head cannon was that part of her name came from all the nightmares ponies had after she stopped protecting dreams, which they mistakenly blamed on NMM traumatizing them, and not on Luna's no longer being around.

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>>30170758
I dream of punching you in the face

>>30170751
1000 years of traumatized ponies

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Luna coming into peoples dreams is unnecessary and it takes jobs away from decent, hard-working psychiatrists and therapists.

>>30170751
Since the population of Equestria is mostly pretty sane (if mildly neurotic), either Luna is vastly overstating the damage that can be done to ponies by their dreams or there's some other factor we're missing.

One possibility is that serious psyche damage is only a thing once dream magic gets involved. Normally nightmares are a passing thing for ponies - you have one, it sucks, you barely remember it after waking up, and you move on. Once Luna's dream magic gets involved, though, it lets her disperse the nightmares, assure a peaceful rest, and even confront the emotional issues behind the Nightmares. But if she invokes her dream magic and then lets the nightmare run rampant, the dreamer is fucked.

>>30170924

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>>30170751
Read Sandman.

>>30172272
Why?

>>30170751

Equestria had a booming demand for therapists before Luna returned. Many were forced to close their offices and sell their furniture and find new professions when she returned.

>>30170751
Angry Luna it's so cute. I would boop her while she's ranting about me not appreciating her flowers.

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>>30170751 (OP)
>"Like smiling is so hard"
>Her soul when

>>30170751
The writers don't really care.

>>30170874
Here's an odd theory for you. What if Luna's physical form as nightmare moon was indeed banished to the moon, but perhaps a more friendly Luna still was able to persist in the dreams of ponies? I'm not completely sure, but has anyone ever noticed any differences between luna in the dream realm and luna in the physical realm?

>>30171175
Are Luna and Nightmare Moon often referred to as two separate entities?

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While Luna was away, someone else took care of the nightmares.

That's my headcanon anyway.

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>>30170751
Her "dream help" was unnecessary then and it is now, nightmares are not dangerous or harmful.

>>30173160
Is Luna the only one with a creature like the tantubus or do other nightmarish creatures exist that could screw with reality?

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>>30173100
Yet they pay extra close attention to the small details in each episode.

>>30173158
>tfw the new fags don't know who she is

>>30173180
Of course, she's the only one.

Have you noticed how Ponies are incapable of functioning normally and have to use external means to cope?

For example, they need to control the weather to get things done, they need someone to raise the fucking sun every day, need a Dream Pony to help them through their nightmares, etc...

>>30170751
Didn't the land stagnate for that whole time?

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>>30170751
Congratulations, you've just discovered an explanation for Pinkie Pie.

>>30171174
I'm not giving some quack horse "doctor" hundreds of bits to tell me about how much i wanna fuck my mom

>>30171101
Nice headcanon I like it

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>>30173203
Oh shit I didn't even notice that.
That's adorable.

>>30173203
>Adding nice details.
That's not the writers, it's the animators.

Usually a writer (for a cartoon, sitcom, film) isn't even allowed to give visual hints in their script.

The reason for this is that each group of specialists shouldn't feel restrained or bogged down by "amateurs" from other groups.

Especially for big budget films this is true, where a writer's script is first rewritten by other writers (acts as editors and second opinion) before finally turned into a storyboard by yet another group of people.

>>30172272
Where can I read Sandman?

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>>30172876
Relevant to OP's question. Like, right from the get-go. Issue #1.
>>30175718
There are so many free comics sites that Googling "read sandman" should get you there just fine. Then again I haven't used any in months so I'll check later.

>>30173160
It's a magical setting, Anon.
If you've got a comprehensive doctorate on Equestrian metaphysics I'd like to hear it.
No, seriously. It'd help nail some shit down.

>>30170751

She's probably just overinflating her importance because she doesn't really have anything else going for her.