Stuff of Dreams

He was not made of human tissue, nor was he made from plant tissue for that matter. He was made from bits and pieces of dreams so his appearance was constantly changing. At some times his head was that of an animal, and others it was that of a distorted robot. His appearance changing in accordance with the dreams that others dreamt, so which ever dream happened to pass through his head influenced his physical properties.

Unsurprisingly, his apearence was most often distorted or incomplete, as when in somebody’s dream they only partly sensed what was going on, as in a state halfway between sleeping and waking. But most often in dreams things look strange but in a vague way familiar, as when a person whom the dreamer despises is seen by the dreamer as a hideous, green, dark, and distorted person whom the dreamer goes on to destroy. People are constantly dreaming, but although this would seem to create a constant light speed changing in the appearance of the man whom I previously mentioned, this unusual being’s appearance was actually constantly changing in a slow and almost graceful manner. This being can be found only in the dream realm, where everybody’s dreams go after they are dreamt, and stored in case of the person’s mind’s desire to again witness that specific dream. To find this amazing being, one must only fall asleep thinking of his image, but not intently, since that would force one to complete his image and thus make it impossible to find him, since his appearance is truly impossible to completely describe. But be warned, dear reader, that although many have tried, for some strange reason nobody can claim seeing this being in their dreams…but could this not possibly be because one rarely remembers of what one dreams of? I, for one, can proudly claim having seen everything, including the dream stroller. Why has he been applied this name? Simply because he, quite literally, enjoys strolling through peoples’ dreams, looking at the alternate realities, the worlds so similar, yet different from our own, it is hard to talk of him, much in the way there is so much to say of god. He is in the likeness of the devil, for he is said to bring great evil, yet, like many say, the devil isn’t the hard-bitten evil criminal scum many make him out to be. The Dream Stroller, for instance, simply makes nightmares, by taking from peoples’ sleep many parts of their dream. You may be dreaming of a petting one moment, and have the image of a crocodile, an angry crocodile, under your hand the next. The crocodile will have jumped to you from somebody else’s dream, thus when one unfortunate sole has everything a’switchin’ and a’wirlin’ they often have a sense of “knowing but not sensing” where they can know and later recall the exact events, but all specific details elude them. During this period of vagueness these people often start thinking carefully about their not being able to really hone any of their senses in on their environment. This often leads quickly to the realization that they are dreaming, which sequentially leads to their waking up. ●