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Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

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Percy’s Dreams In Percy Jackson and The Olympians: Book 1 The Lightning Thief, Percy's dreams give him information. He once dreamt a horse (Poseidon) and an eagle (Zeus) fighting on the beach, because Poseidon and Zeus were fighting up in Olympus. He even dreamt of hearing a dark voice in the pit of Tartarus who was Kronos speaking to him, wanting Percy to join the Titan army. Even in the second book, he dreams Grover being trapped in Polyphemus' cave, because of an 'empathy link', where he was. So evidently, Percy’s dreams give him information, but the book would be very different without his dreams. First, in the novel, Percy was sleeping in a cabin. He had a dream about a horse and an eagle fighting each other on the beach. The horse

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