"I'd been wondering what that was but it did look like it might be a pill so I wasn't going to ask in case it was personal."
"My dreams aren't that great, and I could squeeze all the dreams I want into an hour every day or two."
"Well, if you manage to figure out how to reduce your need for sleep to an hour every two days, kudos."
"I can cut down the need for sleep with meditation, but then I have to meditate. Which I'm really supposed to do but it's so boring, that is literally the point is to be boring."
"Because it's a vaguely spiritual activity and it is supposed to help me do other vaguely spiritual things. But hey, I managed the controlled Avatar State without going into the uncontrolled version first, I think I'm doing all right."
"I'm glad my powers don't have anything to do with spirituality, then, I have a religion but it doesn't require gratuitous boringness from me."
"Yeah, I'm getting that. So instead of spirits you have one god. Is it nice? Spirits are mostly kind of orthogonal to human morality but some of them are pretty nice."
"It's pretty nice! They seem to have roughly human-compatible morality, the rest of the Commandments are things like don't steal, don't kill, respect your parents, stuff like that."
"Okay. But if there's only one why does it even need to... you know, bother... telling people not to 'have' any others?"
"There was this incident where a bunch of people got pissed off that they weren't being rescued from slavery conveniently enough and decided to pretend a statue of a golden calf was God instead, it was weird."
"...If rescuing people from slavery is even in this god's repertoire why wasn't it doing so conveniently? And how could a golden calf possibly help?"