Not just War of the Ancients. In one of these Cataclysm Knaak books (either Stormrage or Wolfheart), Tyrande feels discomfort in sunlight because it’s too bright.
Maybe it’s just a Knaak thing? I don’t think any of the games ever comment on it.
If it’s also in another Knaak book then yeah it probably is a him thing.
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My source is i made it up
that’s cool lore though, i hate the sun
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I never really have nightmares, I just have very epic and cinematic movies playing in my head.
To date my most beloved and well remembered dream is basically watching the Earth implode several times and after every death I’d be reincarnated to another location on Earth few minutes before the apocalyptic event taking place or in the process of happening.
Then I changed meds and the fun dreams went away. 
I’m somewhat sure I read somewhere that in modern WoW Night Elves have sort of adjusted to daylight and being active in the sun because literally the rest of the world isn’t.
night elves are gamers fr
cultural whitewashing
just because everyone else works in the sun and operates in the sun why should we
absolute shambles
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“Why should we have to change? They’re the ones who suck.” - Cool Night Elves who stayed nocturnal.
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my headcanon is that all of the kaldorei refugees in stormwind have been driving the humans absolutely insane by only being awake during the middle of the night and not keeping their conversations down on the street
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On the other hand, the catering business loved it; having fully staffed night shifts of elves who 1) don’t need additional training, 2) have all these recipes from Kalimdor the locas have never tried before, 3) are very glad to have something to do to take their minds off things.
It’d be like having a Greggs that never ran out of cookie stock 
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i trade all my early morning shifts for night shifts like a real cool guy, no wonder i like night elves come to think of it…
I’ve definitely showed up to things at a very late hour with my character on the hunt for breakfast or whatever, it’s cool imagine wanting to look at the sun (you’ll just go blind lol)
It’s probably different things for different people.
Dream interpretation books saying that seeing X in a dream definitely means Y are almost certainly wrong.
My dreams are weird and filled with things of personal significance to me. I largely know why I have dreams with these specific plots, though it took me keeping a dream journal for years to get there.
i am on my fourth consecutive cold in two months and i am very tired of it now
i was well for about 2 days after getting a sinus infection before i caught a new one yesterday
my daughter starting school turned out to be a real curse on the health of my household
Specifically, here are some common recurring elements across my dreams:
- travel, especially by train
- messed up geography, usually correlating with travel by train to nonexistent locales or ones that are placed differently than in the real world
- places from my childhood
- being back in school and realizing I forgot to do homework
- elves (to absolutely no one’s surprise)
- trying to fly, shapeshift, or grow flowers with my mind when I realize I’m dreaming (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t)
- an at-will teleport-home ability, which I consistently have across multiple dreams and expect to have
Wonder what it meant that I had a dream where I was at my grandma’s and at some point her bathroom door started warping and an original horror movie monster came through it. Then it chased us around and kicked someone (some random person??) out of the kitchen window.
Then some time later she got a some mobility issues…
I used to have a recurring theme where I was at my childhood school with people from there as well, and then we get kidnapped or die from a school shooting. Not sure what those were about.
Actually, I somehow keep dying in my dreams. Huh.
Since it’s my last day in the office (and working) before Christmas I thought I might get some tasty food from the local sushi/ramen place just up the road.
Its cheaper to order on the app then pick it up in store, so I log in.
Click their ‘special offer’ page to see what’s on offer.
The only thing is yellow radish pickle.
It’s also sold out.
Nevermind I guess.
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owned i guess
today is my last day of work in the office also, except we’ve decided to shut up shop early and chill for a bit
It means that our hunter-gatherer brains are wired to see causal connections where there are none, because better safe than sorry. It’s a default hardware setting we have to consciously overcome.
(Those of our ancestors who didn’t act by “better safe than sorry” got eaten by predators and thus aren’t actually our ancestors.)
I was once killed by a pile of rubble in a dream. But my brain couldn’t comprehend what it would feel like to not exist, so I just woke up.
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(In this I was 99.9% humorous, because I’m not sure which one came first anyway.)
Sometimes dreams are just random and have no ‘connections’ anyway. Or well, in my case, the hardware might’ve just gotten overriden by the medication side effects, because these dreams had like 0 connection to anything I had experienced prior. The world ending one had only one connection and that was the final moment of the dream where earth imploded and shot out a colourful wave of matter into space that looked similar to the Spirit Bridge thing-y from ATLA/LOK, only more vibrant.
Me and my mum love to share dream stories (mostly because I wanted to talk about the fun dreams I had) and with her I can usually pick out elements that happened in her life (or she does it herself), so something more with that hunter-gatherer hardware setting you mentioned… whereas with my dreams I might’ve only had people I remembered well appearing in my dreams (or literally no one I could recognise), in places I frequented (or literally new place altogether - had a dream once where my school class got kidnapped and taken to a winter-y Russian compound where then I got saved by some western spec ops team, even got to sled down a hill in the arms of one 
)
Huh, I didn’t realise the medication’s chemical influence on the brain’s ‘hunter-gathered hardware’ might’ve been the reason for the fun dreams. Low-key miss them, because somehow the dreams always were like, pretty much full-length cinematic movies. Who knows, maybe one of the dreams could’ve become the next Twilight. 
(I really do think that some of those dreams could’ve been at least moderately successful indie films at the very least. Grandma’s bathroom door monster had a really distinct reveal, for example!)
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this actually happened, me and my associates invaded your ‘dream’ - i’d elaborate but it’d spoil the plot of Christopher Nolan’s next barely comprehensible but very cool action movie
Honestly, I never really remember my dreams, or when I do when I wake up I forget them precisely a minute after, it’s kind of interesting to me how a lot of people seem to have very strong memories of very vivid dreams
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Well I also had a weird post-amirdrassil epilogue dream brought on by too much gaming, involving Tyrande being possessed by Elune again in a strange communal celebration ritual. I’d blame the looming spectre of christmas if the ritual didn’t involve so much weirdness.
My brain just kept on justifying things as “of course, they’re elves” as things got increasingly bizzare, who am I to judge? They’re having a good time with all this symbolism and ritualistic whatchamacallit.
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