I slept at five in the morning and then gave a quiz and then had coffee then was informed that the later classes were canceled and then after tossing and turning in bed for quite some time, i finally fell asleep and in that brief slumber, i had a crazy severance dream and i can attest to the fact that being severed is a horror story.
So, in the dream, i was a severed employee working on some paperwork. The perspective is primarily innie. There was a lot of filing. I was in a team of about 7 to 8 people. I'm was sorta the second in command. Milchick (he's severed, so the character looks like him, with similar vibes) was the first in command. I am not on a severed floor, tho, as in it's not a weirdly spacious basement with no windows, but instead, it has windows and all that, but everything is locked. The place has a giant fancy warehouse vibe about it.
Okay, so at the start, I'm very nervous and feeling guiltish, like the feeling you get as a child when you are voinv behind your parent's back and doing some shit and you are just constantly shitting bricks about whether you'll get caught. Soon, from a conversation with a fellow worker, i learn that I've been recently introduced to a resistance like movement that's about asking questions and figuring out what lumon really does and what our outies are like and all that, sorta like what's happening in the show, but in the dream, it was a huge community of innies. It's a bigger network and so much more organized. Anywho, I'm always nervous about this and someone in a Cobel/Milchick-from-show position (unsevered lumon raised cult person?) asks me a sus question about it and I'm very nervous now and very anxious to prove that I'm not associated with the resistance and all kier is god. Before i can answer and am stumped for a bit, this person gets called out of the room. Milchick, who's been observing the entire exchange, figures out what's up and asks, "How long?' And i don't answer, and he goes.'You better be careful because i have gone a long time, and it's not a pretty path.' He says like a positively insane person, starting with the restrain in the mirror-paperclip scene and ending with an abandon that's weirdly artistic like the dance scene (whut???). After saying this, he runs out and in a meeting area kinda place for the innies, where there are currently quite some innies, he starts screaming about the resistance and how lumon is evil and all that, and this is when i know I'm fucked. Coz this is a critical moment for me - 1. From lumon, to show the superviser (cobel person) that im not associated with the resistance, by shutting milchick up coz the first in command has gone off the rails, the duty directly lands on second in command, me and my response to this situation will be under much scrutiny. 2. From the resistance, how i treat milchick will show all the others in the common area whether i could be entrusted with the more sensitive resistance info. So I'm again, shitting bricks. ( Beyond that, there is a certain anger towards the entire situation, coz i needn't have to be here, my outie put me here. And i exist for just this. It's completely avoidable. ) So, after a few moments of shock, i recover and yells at milchick to be silent "as one mustn't destroy the peace at a common area with such slander." I think i passed the test, coz i saw the person who introduced me to the resistance kinda bow their head a little in my direction. Similarly, the supervisor, cobel person, didn't bother me anymore.
I'll tell the rest after class, coz now i have a class.