fifthdream | The real is but a dream.

I just awoke from a most horrific dream.

I know this dream was much longer, but i only remember the end. It was very vivid, and i can still picture the scene in my head.

We were in a factory of some sort, a group of us. Besides myself, i don't know if i knew who the other people were. The factory looked to be the kind where industrial robots make... something. Very clean, lots of rails, and yellow tubing hanging from above, and people in medical masks and goggles wearing protective clothing.

We - myself and the people i was with - were in a cart, maybe like in a mine, maybe something with seats, i wasn't paying attention. We were riding along, in the factory, on a rail. The cart stopped. In front of us, a man was at one end of a long... device? I don't know how to describe it. It was sort of like something you'd see in a science fiction movie, when people hibernate. They would like down in it, and a big metal covering with glass windows would slide over them, that sort of thing. Anyway, the man, a young handsome Japansese man with longish orangey-blonde hair, was sitting at one end of the... device - the "tube chamber" i'll call it - and a slightly older, very pretty japanese woman was lying down in the tube chamber. One of the factory workers (who all happened to be Japanese, as well), in full protective gear, slid the "lid" closed, but you could still see her through the glass windows. She was naked.

Another worker near the end where the man was flipped a few switches and it began. I can only describe this in one way: the woman was extruded from one end of the tube chamber to the other, in a long, slow, and impossibly painful process. She was fairly squeezed, pushed, sucked, pulled, and ground to bits from one end of the tube to the other, as the man was likewise shredded in the other direction towards her. Of course, with the glass panels in the lid of the tube chamber, we could see the entire thing.

A woman sitting to my left turned to me and exclaimed, "Oh my god, now they're married!"

(As i sat in shock, staring at the now-bloody tube chamber, and the dream was fading away, she also mentioned that the woman in the chamber's nose, at one point in the process, had been stretched to around eighteen inches long, and also there had been bits of testicle in her head.)

The entire time, Shiina Ringo's "Stem (Kuki, Casshern version)" was playing at a deafening volume.

Remind me never to get married.