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