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SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: In my opinion, no, but not because the idea is "bad" or anything, but instead because people severely misinterpret what "Passive effect" means.

The passive effect refers to the effect that works passively, and the active effect is the effect when the Semblance is truly activated. For example, Yang: Acquiring energy from being hurt is Passive, using it to power up is Active.

That's the reason why, in the previous thread, when I proposed another Template, I took out "Passive Ability". Because regardless of what it was supposed to refer for initially, people treated it like "The guy can shoot fireballs. Obviously, the passive ability would be to walk through flames without being burned". The Yang example is actually the best I've heard. To be honest, even after so long on the thread, this is still a tricky category for me. That's why I asked if it would work.

In my defense, though, my definition of 'Lucid Dreaming' is just that the Dreamer is aware that at that moment they're dreaming. A person with a Sleep-Inducing Semblance would, I assume, be aware that they themselves have fallen asleep, so they could potentially begin to Lucid Dream. It's not so much a second separate power, but it would come from a knowledge of sleep and dreams; knowledge enough to know and recognize it.