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Most
people don’t go down the rabbit hole. It’s deep and
dark and scary. It leads back on itself. It leads back to our roots. It leads
back to our fears. It leads back to our death. That’s why most people don’t go
there. But I have to.
The world, or rather the facade of the
world, is bland and boring. Sure it looks exciting. Sure it looks like there’s
a lot going on, but most of that has been drummed up by the people who want to
maintain the facade. Quietly, slowly, the world is changing. We see the
sameness paraded in front of us all the time. The sameness is bankable. The
sameness is marketable. The sameness is the wool over our eyes.
The same shows. The same news. The same
worries. The same hopes. The same fears. The same goals. It’s the rhythm of it
all. We — humans — seek rhythm. Each day gives us a rhythm of sleep and
wakefulness. Each week gives us a rhythm of work and rest. Each month gives us
a rhythm of darkness and light. Each year gives us a rhythm of traditions and
remembrances. Rhythm is numbing. Rhythm is controlling. Rhythm is life — the
beat of our heart and the catch of our breath — but rhythm is death too.
It’s my job, my purpose, to break the
rhythm. Not so you can follow me, but so you don’t have to.
See, I’m a stress-tester for the LDN — the
Lucid Dreaming Network. Everyone wants sweet dreams, or at least dreams with
manageable fears. We want the fear of not making the winning shot in the
championship game, not the fear of falling to our death, not the fear of being naked
in front of our teacher or boss, not the fear of all our teeth falling out.
Those fears are too primal, too close, too real. We need fantasy fears and
fantasy joys. But the only way to expunge the real fears is to trigger them.
The only way to trigger them is to dream them.
Solo dreams are, generally, only lightly
monitored by the LDN. You get in and create whatever you want. You don’t need
anyone’s permission to dream your own dreams — which is why most people don’t
use the LDN for solo dreams. Once you learn lucid dreaming you don’t really
need to hook up to a computer to do it. What you need the computer for is to
dream with other people. And when you dream with other people things can get
messy.
My job is to have the most terrifying solo
dreams possible — while connected to the LDN — so the system can calibrate the
group dreams to prevent terror.
You’re welcome.
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