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