the dream generator meme

[knockyoursocksoff]

The Dream Generator™ is an exciting new device that allows the user to select from a list of dreams that he or she wishes to experience as they sleep. No more random fluctuations of the subconscious, no more repetitions of the same dream, no more nightmares to shake you from sleep - only the dream that you wish to see!

...or that's how it's supposed to function. Unfortunately it seems that some of the Dream Generator™ units have shipped with a few minor bugs, but it's nothing that can't be worked out or repaired. Simply call the toll-free number and the technicians can send a replacement unit!

Unfortunately, you have to finish the dream first.

These things do happen when an uncertain technology is released to the public when it isn't quite ready, so even if the majority of Dream Generator™ users get what they're looking for, there are a handful who experience...glitches. They might get a dream they didn't request, or the dream might turn into a nightmare instead. Some get so drawn into their dreams that they forget it isn't actually real. And every now and then there are reports of people who are somehow drawn into another's Dream Generator™ dream even when they don't have a unit of their own, a phenomenon that has yet to be explained.

Still, the only way to find out if your Dream Generator™ is one of the defective ones is to use it, and should you be trapped in a dream not of your choosing (or one of someone else's choosing) there's nothing to do but wait for it to end.

OPTIONS

1. Defying Gravity: You're falling, flying, or simply floating just above the ground. If it's a pleasant dream you might enjoy swooping about in mid-air, but if you've found yourself in a nightmare you might be grasping desperately for anything to break your fall.

2. Trapped: You're locked in a room, trapped in a box, or simply unable to find the exit from the building no matter how hard you look.

3. Sudden Nudity: Your clothes just vanished in the blink of an eye and you're in a public place. Hopefully you can sneak away before someone notices. Or are they all staring at you right now?

4. Rise to Power: You're the king of the world! Literally. Or maybe the CEO of a corporation, or the most famous celebrity in the world. Would you enjoy your newfound power, or does it terrify you?

5. Searching: There's something terribly important that you have to find, but no matter where you look it eludes you.

6. Chased: Something is following you. Something terrible and frightening, but you don't dare look back to see what it is.

7. Alternate Universe: This is your life as it could have been. What if you'd made a different choice way back when? Or are you now back in high school, ready to take a different path than the one you originally followed?

8. Metamorphosis: There's something different about you. Maybe you've been genderswapped, or maybe you've turned into an animal? Or you're suddenly fifty years older and dealing with the effects of aging. This could be awesome, or it could be the ultimate in body horror.

9. Paralysis: You can't move, for whatever reason. If you believed in folklore it could be that there's a demon sitting on your chest, or maybe there's another reason for it in your dream.

10. Sense Distortion: You could be more or less sensitive to touch, or perhaps one of your other senses is malfunctioning. Maybe you're abruptly blind, trapped in darkness, or every sound is suddenly painfully loud to your ears.

11. Illness: You're sick or badly injured, possibly even near death. Will you enjoy being tended to by your nurse, or will you have a heart-wrenching deathbed scene?

12. Catastrophe: Something terrible is happening, whether it's a natural disaster or a manmade accident.

13. Supernatural: Either you're surrounded by the strange and bizarre, or you now have supernatural powers. Will you use them for good or for awesome? Or will your power destroy you?

14. Wildcard: Pick a dream option not listed here.

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[beingthecreature]

[He sighs, shakily but contentedly enough, just so. His arms envelop her and pull her a little closer, a loving teddy bear he doesn't yet plan on letting go.

He rests his cheek on her head and nuzzles lightly in return, hesitantly closing his eyes, reopening them, then closing them again when visions of the nightmare fail to plague him.

Later... later would be time for discussing it. It would lose its power completely in the daylight, where he could analyze it and talk about it, rendering it down to useless fiction.

But for now, her warmth would be enough to hold it at bay, and with that shield he would, after a while, fall back asleep.]