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2026-08-09 05:39 UTC

When I was little, my Mom told me I could stop a nightmare from coming back by flipping over my pillow. She later revealed that she had completely made that up on the spot, but I've been doing it so long, it's never not worked. So I flipped my pillow over and put my CPAP mask back on, but it still took me a bit of time to fall asleep. A completely different dream began, this time a high tech cyberpunk thriller in a city so developed, it was hard to tell what was indoor, and what was outdoor. Still every bit as real, vivid, intense, and stressful as the dream before. Megacorporations were so obsessed with advertising and propaganda, that all traffic had been changed to sliding sidewalks and escalators, all of which were video screens, and everyone was legally required to sync the sliding sidewalks with their phones. Everyone's commute had become standing still, their entire field of view filled with ads scrolling past. 5/11

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@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca 2026-08-09 05:40

There were people who wanted to protest this, of course, but protests were more limited in this dream than they are in reality. The protesters, instead of rallying anywhere, held a film festival. My friend Trey Parker* and I decided to go check it out. The movie started, and Trey and I were shocked to learn that the movie we had made together 20 years earlier had an underground cult following. It was being played with subtitles, and the audience was trying to say all the lines out loud at the same time as the actors, but they couldn't, because the movie was playing at double speed. Trey and I tried to tell everyone that the speed was wrong because the file format had changed over the years, and at first no one would believe that the film's authors just so happened to be present for this random screening. We eventually convinced them, and started explaining the movie. *Yes, that Trey Parker, no, we aren't friends IRL. 6/11

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