In Mass Effect, intercourse with an Asari alien is known as a mind meld, allowing both partners to share their nervous system sharing thoughts, emotions, and experiences through intercourse. If humans were magically able to do this now, what would other people experience when sleeping with you?

An ocean of cold darkness, waves threatening to overtake them at any moment, salt burning their eyes and water filling their lungs every time they gasped desperately for air…

Yet, if they can keep their inflamed eyes open, a pinprick of light that peaks through the clouds long enough to show them which way is up, if only they’d hold on a little longer…

…In other words, trauma. Trauma with little specks of hope and happiness sprinkled in, promising that the world isn’t all bad.