Murderous Dreamers
The newspapers headlined the INSIGHT incident reporting more violence than had actually taken place, for the stabbings were for the most part acts of salvation, we understood why we were stabbing each other and it was not out-right murder, pinching perhaps. Soon after some primitive analysis was in we came to the horrible conclusion that murder in real life was the end result of dreams. That is, when enough people dream about some one dying, a person that is awake at that time commits the murder. No one was sure how the communication from those that were sleeping to the unlucky one that was awake took place; or why that one particular person, would be killer, was more receptive than another, but the conclusion without doubt was again that a person is murdered when a number of people kill someone in their dreams. Those dreams are reinterpreted in real life by someone awake that is receptive to the dreams. This incredulous conclusion led to the abolishing of the death penalty for it was evident that the person committing the murder was not indeed the murderer, further more the real murderer was in fact a congregation of dreamers and as such impossible to identify and prosecute. So the death penalty was abolished, saved a lot of clowns, and the murderer was still punished for giving in to impulses but not for killing anyone.
After the murderous dreamers theory was proven, a great many people suffered from sleeping disorders, some going to sleep morally praying not to dream a murder, others awaking to an alarm every five minutes so they could live with themselves, REM deprived these often died, guilty of suicide for trying to prevent themselves from being murderers. Others more callous attempted to dream their friends and wives to sleep, and the stock markets went bullish on psychiatry. This was one of the great truths that INSIGHT had given us, and not a truth for all we knew was why a murder was executed not the reason behind it, the why, or the process for selection, nor the determination of the dreams.
THE MAN was a thing of the past, INSIGHT had kind of perished along with the philosophers and the scientist, THE MAN never was anyone and no one would miss him, perhaps they would miss his helmet, which was an art piece but not him, not his limbs, and certainly not his brains. He was, he died, he was past tense.
We, my friend and I went to a party, always go to parties with friends I say, went to this party with a friend she told me about the incident with INSIGHT, about the, THE MAN and the people running around stabbing each other; she spoke of how stupid they had to have been, how the respected scientific community had never accepted any of their premises, it was not an uplifting experience. I did not tell her of my having been an active participant because I figured that would lessen my chances of sleeping with her, the truth is sometimes best avoided. She slept with me that night and we consummated our relationship and part of me wanted to tell her she slept with a stupid idiot, but I thought it best to think that I had slept with stupid idiot and that was OK.
After the murderous dreamers theory was proven, a great many people suffered from sleeping disorders, some going to sleep morally praying not to dream a murder, others awaking to an alarm every five minutes so they could live with themselves, REM deprived these often died, guilty of suicide for trying to prevent themselves from being murderers. Others more callous attempted to dream their friends and wives to sleep, and the stock markets went bullish on psychiatry. This was one of the great truths that INSIGHT had given us, and not a truth for all we knew was why a murder was executed not the reason behind it, the why, or the process for selection, nor the determination of the dreams.
THE MAN was a thing of the past, INSIGHT had kind of perished along with the philosophers and the scientist, THE MAN never was anyone and no one would miss him, perhaps they would miss his helmet, which was an art piece but not him, not his limbs, and certainly not his brains. He was, he died, he was past tense.
We, my friend and I went to a party, always go to parties with friends I say, went to this party with a friend she told me about the incident with INSIGHT, about the, THE MAN and the people running around stabbing each other; she spoke of how stupid they had to have been, how the respected scientific community had never accepted any of their premises, it was not an uplifting experience. I did not tell her of my having been an active participant because I figured that would lessen my chances of sleeping with her, the truth is sometimes best avoided. She slept with me that night and we consummated our relationship and part of me wanted to tell her she slept with a stupid idiot, but I thought it best to think that I had slept with stupid idiot and that was OK.
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