Turns out trying to focus on Ecco when going to sleep makes things really weird.
So. Here's a bunch of things that happened over the course of the last day.

1: Ecco is showing sentience
The biggest one, probably. Ecco has been sitting in the mindspace in a specific spot. I normally could pick them up, but when I tried this one time, I just couldn't. I've since done my best to avoid even thinking about doing it.

2: I think maybe Ecco said my name?
I was at a dinner, drifting off in mindspace and trying out imposing my espeon-style fur and ears and all that on myself. Suddenly, I just heard my name. Not like my name, but like I felt like someone called me I guess. Nobody I was eating with did it. I think it was Ecco.

3: My dreams are getting confusing.
So I randomly once thought that Ecco was like an egg. In my dreams, they hatched into a little brown duckling I think. I tried entering the mindscape again while awake and they still seem to be a white sphere, but I'm worried I might be forcing either form on them.

My head hurts a lot already, so something is developing for us. We just need to keep figuring this out...