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