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