NO WONDER THEY KEPT THE LIGHTS SO DIM ALL THE TIME. They were all just hoping against hope that maybe, someday, ONE OF THEM MIGHT SLEEP FOR 4 STRAIGHT HOURS. Imagine!
God, that’s horrible. Factor in the Force Background Noise of all those untrained-to-barely-trained wizard children in the creche, and just Anakin Skywalker’s presence in general, plus all their kyber crystals keeping them awake, and it’s obvious why they were all distracted and exhausted and missing various Signs of Evil.
LET THE JEDI ORDER NAP 2KINFINITY. SOMEONE BUY THEM A WHITE NOISE MACHINE FFS.
THOSE POOR BABIES! This is also why Anakin was such a mess. Not only was he dealing with HIS OWN shithole brain when trying to sleep but also you know everyone else’s too making it hard to get a proper sleep on his own much less if he was at the Temple. I also wonder how the Padawan/Master bond affects this. Were Obi-Wan’s sleep attempts EVEN HARDER because he had a direct link to our mess of a ‘Chosen One’ Anakin?(I mean let’s be real even WITH proper sleep this boy would not have caught onto Sheev’s plots if the man hit him in the face with a 2×4 BUT if he was getting sleep I bet Obi-Wan would be getting sleep and thus be able to figure out what was going on faster/better and make a proper plan to deal with it…such as taking Ani on vacation for an undetermined period of time.)
I’m sad about this, but also laughing at the idea of Obi-Wan being unable to sleep in part because his brain is polluted with a constant feed of Anakin’s brain, which in addition to his anxiety and rage/fear and whatnot I suspect ALSO included a lot of “spaceship going fast” VROOMS and robot noises well into his adulthood, because he’s Anakin.
So I was rereading catalyst today and it mentioned that being around kyber crystals a lot can cause insomnia. Now in the next paragraph goes into the crystals only liking people whom they’ve bonded with, but because of you I went “HOW CAN OBI-WAN TAKE A NAP IF HIS LIGHTSABER IF GIVING HIM INSOMIA? WERE THE JEDI SO GULLIBLE BECAUSE OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION?”
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