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I have only started/played through five Zelda games, so I don't know if my idea applies to all of them, but still...
In four of the Zelda games I've played (OoT, WW, ALttP, and OoS), the game starts with Link asleep. Near the very beginning of the fifth, TP, Link is briefly knocked out by bad guys when Illia and the kids are captured. Is it possible that after Link "wakes up" in these five games (possibly other games, I don't know) he is not awake at all but dreaming? All Zelda games feature, to some extent, kooky characters that do not behave rationally that Link has to go along with (pirates that shoot poor Link out of cannons, zoras and funny hooded girls with bows that want anything from marriage to just a date, creepy ooccoos, strange mailmen, crazy mad scientists that eat eyeball frogs, annoying little faries... the list goes on and on). While characters like these are highly lovable and make the series what it is, the fact that the world is so heavily populated with such characters, leaving Link one of the only sane people there, is somewhat dreamlike (think Alice in Wonderland). In dreams, the person dreaming does not feel at all in control of events. Also, obviously, the imagination can conjure up a fanciful world that does not follow the same rules that real life follows, which would explain things like why Link can roll up staircases, why gorons, as is discussed in another thread, seem to be only males but have kids, why Link can walk around without any kind of backpack or anything yet have access to a load of items that probably weighs more than he does, why everyone can understand Link without him actually saying anything to them, etc. etc. etc. Is the Kingdom of Hyrule similar to the Land of Oz or Wonderland?
I certainly wouldn't want LoZ games to "officially" be dreams, but I found the idea that they could be dreams very interesting. What do you think?
In four of the Zelda games I've played (OoT, WW, ALttP, and OoS), the game starts with Link asleep. Near the very beginning of the fifth, TP, Link is briefly knocked out by bad guys when Illia and the kids are captured. Is it possible that after Link "wakes up" in these five games (possibly other games, I don't know) he is not awake at all but dreaming? All Zelda games feature, to some extent, kooky characters that do not behave rationally that Link has to go along with (pirates that shoot poor Link out of cannons, zoras and funny hooded girls with bows that want anything from marriage to just a date, creepy ooccoos, strange mailmen, crazy mad scientists that eat eyeball frogs, annoying little faries... the list goes on and on). While characters like these are highly lovable and make the series what it is, the fact that the world is so heavily populated with such characters, leaving Link one of the only sane people there, is somewhat dreamlike (think Alice in Wonderland). In dreams, the person dreaming does not feel at all in control of events. Also, obviously, the imagination can conjure up a fanciful world that does not follow the same rules that real life follows, which would explain things like why Link can roll up staircases, why gorons, as is discussed in another thread, seem to be only males but have kids, why Link can walk around without any kind of backpack or anything yet have access to a load of items that probably weighs more than he does, why everyone can understand Link without him actually saying anything to them, etc. etc. etc. Is the Kingdom of Hyrule similar to the Land of Oz or Wonderland?
I certainly wouldn't want LoZ games to "officially" be dreams, but I found the idea that they could be dreams very interesting. What do you think?