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· @greer184 · (edited)
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Dreamscape
The following sections come together to string a non-linear story. At the end of each section, you will be asked to make a decision. Kind of like a choose your adventure story but with a lot less effort put into it. There's some philosophy and some programming jokes sprinkled in too. I thought I would take the time to be original when that sort of thing is lacking in the current ecosystem. I would encourage you to be original as well. Just don't try and rewrite Finnegan's Wake. For your own sake.

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You were kind of just sitting there in bed. Something just feels different. Like you're the reflection in your mirror, or something like that. What were you last thinking about? You can't seem to remember anything, yet that thought remains on the edge of your consciousness laughing at your forgetfulness. You need to stop forgetting about things. You look up and notice that your bedroom now has two doors. Is that normal? You seem to be confident about the answer. But something just feels different whatever that may be.

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##### [I Know My Bedroom Has 2 Doors](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t213901061z)
##### [I Know My Bedroom Doesn't Not Have 2 Doors](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214131480z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well if it is not the doors, then what is it? You appear to be confident in something but lack the memory to remember what is the missing essense of the moment. Everything on the inside of the room would appear to be correct. Maybe something is missing, but you can't really tell at this moment. Thus, you have another decision to make. The doors. You would expect the doors to lead to where they normally would lead, but you are stuck in this room. Does the world ever exist outside your range of sight? Is this some sort of illusion? You know these are good questions, but why don't you know the answers?

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##### [The Door On The Left](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214131480z)
##### [The Door On The Right](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214317808z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
You begin to wonder if you even have valid choices. I mean, something about this seems familiar but you simply aren't that sure. Maybe its like deja vu, or a collision with an alternative universe. But you have decided to leave the room and open one of the doors to leave the room. A hallway. And a staircase. But how did you get to the door? Weren't you just sitting on the bed? Now you are in the hallway, but you don't remember walking to the door. You were just there. 

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##### [Go Back Into The Room](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214509697z)
##### [Go Down Into The Staircase](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214645631z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
So you walk over to the door and open it. There is a balcony over a big open empty field. Well, that's not very creative. There are a couple of trees on the edges of your vision. You are on the second floor of a building. Do you even live here? Maybe it was your bedroom, but the field and trees appear to be something different? Where are you? You are not so sure anymore. One moment you are in your room and now the world just opens up like that. 

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##### [Go Back Into The Room](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214509697z)
##### [Jump Off Balcony](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214807666z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well, you are back in your room. You have more knowledge about the world. That being said, you had no idea what you were doing before you found yourself sitting in the bed. You did have some idea what you were thinking about, but now it is completely gone. It can be such a pain when ideas simply float through one ear and out the other. But now you have choices to make. Do you go out the other door or do you reconsider all of your options?

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##### [Go Out Other Door](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215000325z)
##### [Keep Thinking](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215136974z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Decending down this staircase, you notice how wierd it feels to be walking. It's like your steps don't have any real weight to them. You feel the pressure in your feet but the feeling is just the same. You look down and realize there is no staircase, but just empty space. Wait something doesn't seem quite right here. Objects simply can't disappear. Something is definitely wrong. You feel like you are spinning, but how is that possible with any context? Wait...

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##### [I'm Dreaming](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215224021z)
##### [I'm Falling](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214807666z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well now you are falling. That is not a very good state to be in. There are certainly times in the past where falling has not gone well for you. Now might be one of those times. But let's be honest. You chose to be in this state. Falling was completely optional. You could have decided to go down another road and maybe in some parallel existence you did. But let's leave the hypothecials to the philosophers and the nerds and get back to the current predicament. You are falling. What happens next?

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##### [I Hit The Ground](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215407132z)
##### [I Can Fly](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215517542z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
That was probably a good decision on your part. Thinking never really gets you anywhere good. One thought leads to other thought and then boom, you've been sitting in bed all day looking at your phone wondering where the day has gone. Then you go back to sleep and repeat not realizing that within that process you have been in multiple layers of dreams and its only been a couple of hours since you started taking your nap. But the question is begging to be asked? Was that actually a nap or where you dream another dream within a bigger dream. The dilemma of sleeping recursively.

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##### [Wait I'm Dreaming?](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215224021z)
##### [Hold On, Let Me Think About That More](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215136974z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well, you consider diving deeper into your thoughts and continue to iterate through the possibilities, but something is definitely wrong. You've been here before. You realize that you are sitting in your bed, but you don't remember ever doing that, well except earlier? But what if you forget? Then its like the whole thing repeats. Like you are in some cycle or an infinite while loop. This can't be right. You should keep thinking about it. There must be a way out. Maybe not.

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##### [while (True){(Me)}](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215136974z)
##### [for(i = 1; i > 0; i++){(Me)}](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215136974z)
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@greer184 ·
You wake back up in your bed. You sit up in your bed. Your bedroom has all of its normal attributes. You still don't remember what you were thinking about before your dream, but remember that the dream was weird. Like really weird. 

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##### THE END
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@greer184 · (edited)
You must have some masochistic streak or something like that going, but you didn't die from that fall. But given that you chose to be a slave to gravity, you probably already knew that the jump was safe and all. You don't really know where you are. But you probably think there is some greater meaning behind all of this. That thought might make sense if you were not so convinced that something was still off about this whole situation. Where are you? 

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##### [I Don't Care](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215000325z)
##### [I Don't Know](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215633348z) 
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well that is interesting. Are you normally capable of flight? Unless you are a bird, a bat, or some insect I would guess that is not the case. Considering that you are having complex dilemmas in an irrational space, you would probably suspect that you are not a bird, a bat, or some insect. But given the space is irrational (which is an assumption, but thinking all day about assumptions could lead us into solipsism, which is dangerous in itself), you actually could be a bird, or a bat, or an insect. It's your choice.

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##### [I'm a Bird](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215753087z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well great! You don't know what is going on. You already knew that, but apparently you didn't because you're lost and have no context or anything to guide you. I mean you did start in your room, so you could go back there and reconsider your decisions. But maybe this whole thing is starting to remind you of a certain activity that the brain engages in when you are left to the whims of whatever the your brain feels like thinking about when you are resting. Whatever it may be, you should be proud that you got this far. Whatever that means.

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##### [Back To Room](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t214509697z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
So, you really think that you are a bird and you can fly. And gracefully you glide among the emptiness that is your current state. That is not the most plausible of explanations, but wierder things than that have happened. You can enjoy your life as a bird or you can wake the hell up now. It's your choice. Although, I reckon that being a bird long enough will eventually get tiring for you. Hell, maybe not. Maybe you enjoy repetition.

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##### [I'm A Bird](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215753087z)
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@greer184 · (edited)
Well you are not falling anymore and you are certainly not a bird, so flying is now out of the question. What are you doing? Floating? That's not right? Or maybe it is given the circumstances. You are not really sure anymore. But who would be sure given that they were flying just a second before and for a brief moment in time actually took the time and consideration in the possibility that they were actually a bird. Such thinks only happen in irrational spaces, speaking of irrational spaces...

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##### [I'm Dreaming](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215224021z)
##### [Let's Think About This](https://steemit.com/dreamscape/@greer184/dreamscape#@greer184/re-greer184-dreamscape-20171220t215136974z)
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