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When Piper Mclean was turned to gold in The Lost Hero, it is said that she had a dream. This would imply that it is like being asleep, therefore time passes.

However, King Midas had victims from thousands of years ago (e.g. his daughter, his barber, etc), who also came back to life.

Does time not pass for King Midas' victims, or does time pass really slowly, like Thalia when she was a great pine tree (Except a lot slower)?

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  • I need to double check but isn't Piper pretty much the only data point for this in canon?
    – DVK-on-Ahch-To
    Commented Mar 9, 2015 at 18:37
  • @DVK: Leo would too, I guess, but we don't have his point of view on it.
    – Mithical
    Commented Mar 9, 2015 at 18:57

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Thalia does make a pretty good metaphor for this. It makes sense that Thalia would age, because the tree is living, and it grows and ages, so she aged at a tree's pace. But gold doesn't age, so, in theory, time could pass without Midas's victims aging either. I'm not sure about dreaming. I think Thalia visited Percy's dream in lightning thief, while she was still a tree, but tree dreaming rules might be different. I don't remember what Piper was dreaming about, but it might be important to answering this.

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    Piper dreamed about an old man with donkey ears chasing her and shouting "Your it!"
    – Mithical
    Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 11:43
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    You know, maybe that was just shock @Mithical. That dream could even have been after the whole experience
    – Righter
    Commented Apr 7, 2021 at 11:59

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