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