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