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