fever dream

Date: 11/3/2022

fever dream i had when i was sleeping off the effects of the covid shot i got. so it started at a mew years party at my work friends place and a bunch of my coworkers/friends were there. I was so busy chatting my coworker emily up that i forgot to get food. So by the time i went to get some there was no more. then my mom showed up and told me i can grow pakoras out of my arms to both have food and impress emily, win win. so i did. then i woke up and went back to sleep and the dream continued, almost like a next day sort of thing. i dont remember the beginning of the dream, there was some wedding going on and i was hanging with the same coworkers friends whom i barely know. after a lot of unrememberable shenanigans someone eventually asked me if i wanted to undergo an experiment wherein they put me into a deep sleep and play subliminal messaging through headphones and also hook me up to nodes to influence my body in an attempt to make the world of dreaming feel more real than reality, because often times the real doesnt truly feel real. Against my better judgement I agreed and we all went to the hotel room. They gave me a little remote i could type short messages into to signal or communicate with them in the waking world, and then they put me under. I woke up in the dream world and everything seemed normal. I don't remember what the double dream was about but i remember seeing some things that looked like a mixture of something from halo and bionicle, like observing travelling interdimensional humanoids in a desert in the depths of space. anyway thats when things started going wrong. The "reality" started warping and I jumped through a ton of my own memories in seconds, like my life flashing before my eyes, and then before i knew it i was pinned flat on my face writhing in agony, it felt like someone was repeatedly stabbing my torso over and over and twisting the knife but I couldn't die. the world was still rapidly shifting around me but I could really observe. I used all mt energy to try to key into the remote "GET ME OUT" and then hit enter and i kept hitting a bunch of keyboard smashes and pressing enter (the remote was in my hand under my torso, it felt like a tv remote or a phone with physical buttons). eventually i got pulled back and the world stopped flashing, and i was back in the hotel room, and only my roommate sam was there but she didn't say anything and looked super robotic, like a mannequin or some sort of homunculus. she was facing away from me so i couldn't see her face. i didnt care though, i ran over and hugged her and didn't let go because i was so scared and needed to hold someone familiar to me. but then i kept hearing echoes in my head from the people in the waking world being "let go!" "thats not sam!!" "you gotta wake up" but I didnt care i didnt want it to continue so i just stayed there and slowly the waking friends started shimmering and fading in around me and sam started fading away and i was so scared i was like no no no come back!! and then it felt like i was getting yanked upwards by something and everything blurred around me and i woke up in real life