#we're talking about post traumatic stress in the form of sleep walking and such

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When the wolf dreams came, Sansa was older. She was safe and stronger within the walls of Winterfell and she was a Queen of Winter. But in her dreams she ran with Lady again. They sought-out enemies who once made her afraid. In these dreams she learned the taste of flesh, and when she woke there was dirt beneath her nails and bitterness on her tongue. She was afraid of who she became in the dark.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiafgif #asoiafedit #gotsansastark #sansa stark #gotasoiafsource #alright so listen we're talking about trauma responses #we're talking about post traumatic stress in the form of sleep walking and such #sansa doesnt have the same literal warging wolf dreams as her siblings but she does have episodes of dissociative states #that manifest as what she would remember as wolf dreams but are very literally her sleep walking and running in the woods #this sort of trauma response is something that i'm very very familiar with and its something that i think makes sense for sansa #especially after years of repressing her trauma and having to pacify any sort of emotional response to literally everything that's happened #i do believe that as an adult she's going to be extremely hypervigilant - a branch of ptsd thats more to do with hyer-awareness and anxiety #and extreme mistrust in everyone she meets #and particularly high stress triggered episodes that look like the above #but theres literally no language for mental health in this world so its just... wolf dreams #thank u for ur time today #please support my weak ass endeavor so i didnt have to use von trier for nothing