I was moving someone’s car for them, presumably in the San Francisco Bay Area because it was a place full of steep hills and wandering robots.
Also in the car with me, for some reason, was a rowdy child in my supervision, who would not stay in his seat and hit the E brake so we rolled backward and I had to park the car again …
Somewhere in the combined process of corralling the child and controlling the car, I had accidentally bumped a button next to the gear shift labeled “Quantum.” I tried to press it again to turn it off, but the light remained on.
“Well. That’s concerning …” I seemed to muse out loud.
I checked the car and the space around it. Nothing immediately seemed different, until I went back to the mystery office building to tell someone their quantum drive light was on and I’m not sure how to fix it … but the design of the building was slightly different, as well as the shape of a couple robots I had seen rolling about earlier.
Things got progressively weirder as I failed to even find the person who owned the car, or the child traveling with me. I accepted that they might both just be mine now in what was clearly a parallel reality to wherever I had just been.
Most people I knew there seemed to know me in the same way, except for some loose acquaintances, who were either closer or had never met me.
The plot sort of derailed as I tried to track down an old friend, struggling to figure out if we had still fallen out as friends, were some kind of exes, or if I was just harassing a stranger.
In the background, a super intelligent android was slowly taking over the government and dressing in outfits with very pointy shoulders.
I don’t know how the dream ended. Just wanted to share what was surely the result of me recently turning up my psych meds, and listening to Philip K. Dick talk philosophy right before sleep.
—bwargh von modnar
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