i fall  asleep in the  wrong throat  and 
 is not  so much dreaming as being forced 
         to imagine a scenario...         
                                          
                      
  
  
  
                      
                                          
            big halls, arcades,           
         filled with characters.          
                                          
 i get  instructions for them, for what i 
 must imagine them doing  or saying. they 
 have  some  agency,  but  not while  i'm 
   looking. the instructions are beamed   
 into  my  mind, spoken  from  a  god, or 
              false demiurge.             
                                          
 sometimes i'm too  slow and fail to make 
 them  do  what  i'm   instructed  before 
 time's out, and  then they get punished. 
                                          
 one of them  got  his vocabulary  shrunk 
 down to only the  word  he failed to say 
      (roofs? rufus?), many were just     
            physically maimed.            
                                          
 it   all    was   very   stressful   and 
 repulsive. it felt like a nightmare,  or 
               fever dream.               
                                          
 i   haven't   tried   to   sleep   since