I thought of this too, it was a story in Sum - Forty Tales from the Afterlives
It is not life that is a dream; it is death that is a dream.
You now recall that your dreams always had background characters: the crowds in the restaurant, the knots of people in the malls and schoolyards, the other drivers on the road and the jaywalking pedestrians.
Those actors don't come from nowhere. We stand in the background, playing our parts, allowing the experience to feel real for the dreamer. Sometimes we listen and pay attention to the plot of the dream. More often we talk among ourselves and wait for our shift to end.
This is not a job choice but indenture: you owe the same number of hours of service as you spent dreaming during your lifetime.
It's only ever you in there. They just put away the props, take off the makeup, and get ready to argue about which color of pants should go with those shoes your spouse hates but you like so much.
In other people's dreams, of course. They hop like this from mind to mind, leaving one whenever it wakes and living on in the next. The thing they fear most ? the day everybody will be awake at the same time...
28 Comments
fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 118d
Backstage. Prepping for your next dream-
kip@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 117d
I thought of this too, it was a story in Sum - Forty Tales from the Afterlives
pdf: https://cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/dist/2/3627/files/2018/01/Sum_-Forty-Tales-from-the-After-Eagleman-David-2dspl4a.pdf
Bell@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 118d
They wake up too
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 117d
they become you again
benderbeerman@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 118d
In your heeeeeaaaaaad, in your heeeeeyyyeeeaadddd...
Vitaly@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 118d
Zombie zooombie
victorz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 118d
Or as I sang it when I was a kid and didn't know English yet,
benderbeerman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d
Zombie salami... huh, guess I already figured out my next Halloween costume. Thanks!
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d
Glad to help! 🧟♂️🥩
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 118d
I'm still here
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 117d
They all freak out when you just disappear.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 117d
They don't go anywhere. The dream doesn't end just because you wake up.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 117d
You dreamed about waking up.
andallthat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 118d
Back to Pornhub?
daggermoon@piefed.world · 7 pts · 118d
In your walls
pineapple@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 117d
Stop. I'm about to go to bed soon.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 117d
The problem with your question is that you believe you have woken up.
Nemoder@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 118d
To the same place everyone you know goes to when you aren't thinking about them.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 118d
Toulouse.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 118d
Back into the place you wish you were.
bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 118d
It's only ever you in there. They just put away the props, take off the makeup, and get ready to argue about which color of pants should go with those shoes your spouse hates but you like so much.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 117d
In other people's dreams, of course. They hop like this from mind to mind, leaving one whenever it wakes and living on in the next. The thing they fear most ? the day everybody will be awake at the same time...
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 117d
Back to their own realities.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 5 pts · 117d
“Where” is a question that applies to the physical world. The dream people are constituted of something more fundamental than matter.
lemeteque@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 117d
Into the Pale
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 118d
Finland
solrize@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 118d
Tumbolia!
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d
The same place they came from.