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