Giving up on any semblance of nondisclosure at this point
For some reason, this blog hasn’t been shut down, nor have I been asked to take it down for violating my nondisclosure agreement, so either I’m very lucky or they just haven’t found it yet. Since I appear to have a free platform in which to say whatever I want without consequences for the moment, I’ll just go ahead and tell you everything about what’s been going on.
We had our first “dream” or whatever today. You know, a simulation or whatever. It felt weirdly real. I mean, I knew it wasn’t, because obviously we were hooked up to these machines beforehand and dosed with some drugs I don’t even want to think about right now, supposedly to put us to “sleep” (I was sure I was going to die in that moment), but it still felt more real than I expected. It was literally just the city I live in now, like everything was the same. The streets, the stores, the train station, everything.
Anyway, the first thing that felt “off” was that people kept staring at me and whispering. I mean, that happens anyway sometimes. I haven’t exactly been looking or smelling my best lately until this study started. But these whispers were different, like the whispers of people who have just seen a celebrity. Okay, strange, yeah, but I just kept walking. I wanted to see how much of the city they bothered programming. It was a lot, actually. Kind of impressive.
And then it happened. Someone actually came up to me. Multiple someones, in fact. “Are you…Stephen Flash?” Like they were in awe of me. I said yes and suddenly there were cameras flashing and people wanting to shake my hand, have pictures taken with me, everything. Someone wanted me to autograph a newspaper and the headline was about me blowing open a voting fraud scandal. I’ve been saying for ages, as you know, that President West’s election was a total sham and apparently I proved it. The picture below the image was of me, smiling, a cheesy smile, but it was pretty cool to feel like I accomplished something.
And then, you know, it ended. And now I’m here. The same pathetic bastard I’ve always been. It was nice, but it was fake, and this is real, and it sucks. But hey. I guess it’s better to deal with miserable reality than try to live in a beautiful fantasy.
This is a fictional blog entry for the character of Stephen in the D.R.E.A.M. podcast. This blog post refers to events in Episode 4, which released on June 18, 2019. Episodes 1-4 are out now. You can listen to the first four episodes and the first minisode now at http://dream-podcast.com/listen
D.R.E.A.M. Episode 5 will be available to patrons on July 1, 2019 and to the public on July 2, 2019.
