How get contentment to counter dread?

[Censor]

Hello.
How you can get contentment to counter dread? I have played for hours but I do not know. Maybe because I am not a native english speaker.

[Aquillion]

Visit the Ecdysis Club (you can find it by exploring if you haven't yet.)

Alternatively, painting will generally produce contentment if you're good at it and do well.

[Zorlond]

Contentment comes from a variety of sources. Dreaming can award it, as can painting, research, and even as random event awards.

Once you have it, use Dream with Dread, then add Contentment to the new box that it adds, and run it. They'll destroy each other in the process.

On the other hand, if you get the random event of dark thoughts (don't remember the actual name, sorry), it will automatically suck up both Dread and Contentment (Contentment reduces the Dread count by one per) until it either kills you (at 3 Dread) or goes away (at 0 Dread)

[Thor]

There is a chance with
Dream + Funds (opium)
Dream + Reason
Explore + Exdyis Club

[Agmar]

Originally posted by Thor:

There is a chance with
Dream + Funds (opium)
Dream + Reason
Explore + Exdyis Club

Thanks. I am having too much dread. I hope this helps.

[LotusBlade]

Originally posted by Agmar:

Thanks. I am having too much dread. I hope this helps.

+ you can put restlessness into painting to destroy it and prevent Dread from appeating;
+ you can use dread on Fascination to block it for some time;
+ you can burn Dread during rituals when they require Edge, so have ritual always ready;
+ when converting people into followers, try putting it into slot 4 to burn, so always have 1 non-follower just in case;
+ sometimes lore upgrades have weird requirements, like Fascination.

So the basic rule is: if there is some action which requires cards, make sure to check if it can consume dread, maybe i missed something.

[Geordy]

In my current game Im going with the Lantern cult and what do you know? Restlessness is a LvL2 Lantern influence. So I can burn it whenever I uplift a follower. Neat.

[Sintonir]

Restlessness is actually great Influence if you know how to use it. It has 5 Aspects (Lantern, Heart, Moth, Forge and Grail) so you can use it for a lot of things.
The best way get Contentment is by Dreaming with Funds. It guarantees Contentment, but there is a low chance it would start Despair or Sickness.