SCP Foundation

After writing a lot in a row for On Mount Golgotha, this felt like a nice palate cleanser. I hope you enjoy - at least this isn't one of those SCPs that is so long that it makes you tired.

I have run through so many possible titles for this one, including "To sleep, perchance to dream", "On the Impossibility of Communication in cases of Fundamentally Different Understandings of Ontology", "The search for meaning is itself meaningless", "Dreamcatcher" - if anyone comes up with a suggestion, I am open to changing it on the Series III list.

As usual, much thanks is due. So many people read this through (in various forms) and gave helpful comments and feedback. Thank you to Thetataurus, sirpudding, Shaggydredlocks, Zyn, WrongJohnSilver, Varren Erelim, LurkD, A Random Day, BIDZ180, Aiden Eldritch and Decibelle.

This also had a number of key influences, including writings for this site by Kalinin, ophite, Djoric and Drewbear.

Good to see this up. Sweet, simple and doesn't overstay its welcome, although the implications are obvious and a little disturbing. +1

Short, sweet, and to the point. I'm torn between the Hamlet reference and Dreamcatcher. Putting up the suggestions of "Dream a little dream of Me", "Preludes and Nocturnes" and "R.I.P. Van Winkle".

ETA: "You're gonna feel that one in the morning!"

I loved it in drafts and I love it now. I do miss the things sometimes being left in the wounds like the persons dreams were leaking through them but it works perfectly fine without it.

+1

For a name, there is always a version of "What Dreams May Come".

I do wish it was a bit longer, but it's weird and awful and I really like it. Nice work. +1

Short, simple and quite great article. +1

The only complaint I have is that I've had another idea germinating in my mind for much of the past year. It was a slow, creeping article, starting with an anomalous protein and using hard science to build it into an unsettling implication about commonplace phenomena that occur during sleep. It was essentially going to be a series of experiments that function like an exploration log that never leaves the laboratory.

Then this comes along and presents that creep in just over 300 words.

Excellent job, psul. +1 all the way.

Incidentally, today I woke up and immediately in the dregs of dream-to-waking felt like listening¹ to Jack Johnson's "Better Together".

But if all of these dreams
Might find their way into my day-to-day scene
I'd be under the impression
I was somewhere in between…

Lo and behold, this SCP was posted. Funny thing, that?

+1

I like it. It makes me laugh, which (probably) makes me a bad person.

I'm at a loss as to what the draw is. It seems perfunctory and not terribly interesting, the sort of article which is posted and deleted on a daily basis around here.