temperance: can you describe a strange dream you’ve had?
Oh man, my dreams are super weird. They have entire overarching plots and themes, and like, world-building rules. It’s frankly exhausting.
Like, okay, the first dream I remember having that made the Rules clear was I was trapped in this very large and confusing house. I was trying to find a way out. And there was this foreboding ambiance, a la halfway through a horror movie. And I knew I was dreaming, and at some point I ran into some people on a spiral staircase. And I was asking them to point the way out and they weren’t being helpful, and I ended up telling them we were in a dream and they told me I wasn’t allowed to say that.
And I was confused because I was just like, but this is my dream. And they fled and then some other like Dream Police people started chasing after me, because I’d broken the Rules, and the dream started falling apart. Walls melting, stairs disappearing, that sort of thing.
Which is how I learned that I’m Not Supposed to say that I’m dreaming in dreams.