Well... Office supplies. Suppose it could be worse. It's not actively working against Daniel, at least, even if it's not overly impressive or useful. But a little bit useful is better than a little bit or a lot harmful.

"Yeah, the Rift loves messing with us. But like you said, one does get better at it with practice, if you have the aptitude for it. It often varies how easy it is to tell, though. Some Rift-given dreams make it so difficult even I have trouble telling for a moment." That had been some pretty impressive telepathic trickery. Which had annoyed, impressed, frightened and delighted Topher, all at the same time. "You can also control the dreamspace yourself, to a certain extent, with practice, though that also depends on the dream. This one isn't very friendly to being changed, for example. And it's often easier to change how you yourself appear in the dream, like changing your clothes. And sometimes you change the dream without even noticing, like if you assume something is there, then it might suddenly be."