"Life is but a dream" is supposed to just be a song.

Damn. I really didn't need to ponder an imaginative universe where the sand man is the curator of dreams

I like this one because it makes one think about the nature of dreams. Are they just thoughts? Do the creatures that live in your head exist in the same sense we do? Is our world a dream? Seems rather boring if it was. Do the souls that live in the depths of the subconscious hate us for the nightmares we have? Are superheroes just lucid dreamer?

Technical specialist Ennish woke up stretching his back and coughing when the NPA in his nose tickled his esophagus. Exiting his pod, he found Chief Engineer Dorenkova leaning on the wall, a cup of warm coffee in her hand "Rise and shine sleepyhead, was getting a little worried when your cryopod took an additional day before waking you up. Had a good sleep?" Mumbling and grabbing the coffee mug, Ennish said "I hate cryosleep....you know I always get the weirdest of all dreams, like this time there was this sandman and..." "Yah yah, you'll tell me later kiddo, c'mon time to get back to work"

Don't wake the Red King, we are all characters in his dream. Lewis Carrol

Okay, this one was actually good, and it made sense that the names of the creatures would just be the names of the animals. Not stupid aliens that make no sense to have ever emerged as a civilization, but an universe made of dreams.

Ok now that's a better way to do "it's all a dream"

When I heard about the biped with a mask and melee weapon, I went "Jason?" From there, more and more monsters. Is this a Gary Gygax game?

So... The Sandman was snatching away the nightmares. And those nightmares were populating this universe of imagination, inside the head of a child in stasis. There's no real clues about it, but I suspect he's on an interplanetary ark fleeing a broken Earth and Mars. A war occurred, with the last parts - the final battles - taking place on Mars as the ship passed by. Heading for a new world. They must have entered suspension shortly after Mars.

Guy wakes up. Says to the person next to him, "You wont believe the dream I just had."

What a grand and intoxicating delusion

😮 one of the pods had replicators that pod was probably a containment unit made by the Asgard or the ancient

So, we had a story of *The First Battle,* and now we see the last.

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!

That was awesome! Thanks for the tale & narration! For the algorithm!

the experiences of dreams do not get deleted, they move into the subconcious. dreams can be continued and formed through lucid dreaming or even randomly. so the dreamed together conciousnesses simply become a part of the dreamer again, ae to act through them.

This excellent story has a universe of references.

Elder Scrolls lore in a nutshell.

As it is with us too. We are but creatures of a dream. Eventually the dreamer will awaken and all will be lost! Not even the void will remain. Even death can die it seems! I sometimes wonder, about the kind of mind that can dream of an end to it all. An end to strife, an end to struggle, an end to pain and suffering, an end to affection an end to love, and end to consciousness itself. Behold the end of your struggles oh mighty! Behold the fate of all flesh! Of what use your wealth then? Of what use your power? It cannot prolong your lives even a second. Others will follow, to take what you built and consume it. To spend all you have amassed, until nothing remains. Balance canot be denied. No thing can stop the end of the dream.

Melee weapon and a mask? Jason?

Wow this is some classic science fiction, seriously doesn't even feel like it would have been written in this era If you had told me this was a short story written by some famous sci-fi author at the turn of the century or in the 1910s I I would have 100% believe you

For the algorithm may it spread this channel to all

We are the foolish god that sleeps.

And the child's name was Azathoth.

So, humans are Azatoth? 🤪

wow that was one of the better stories

the death of the memories, imagination, and the dreams, of a soul.

just like azathoth in the cathlo mythos

The fishies are the bestest monsters.

May the dreamer sleep peacefully

A creature that infected one of the aliens with its eggs. And then resulted in Is a black chitin covered Warrior That appeared to be so skilled and stealthy at ambush predation that it was able to annihilate almost the entire crew of a single starship without any backup or any technology. The yep we created xenomorphs. I thought the reference too The bipedal individual wearing the mask with the maylie weapon was a bit on the nose as its jasonX. But that is the aliens from ridely Scott's aliens in the second encounter of note. So somehow we decided that it would be just be fun to Create the offspring of a gimpsuit and a velociraptor That was capable of existing in no atmosphere 0G space and also possessed hydrophloric acid For blood.. You know somehow I'm not surprised in the slightest at this considering that seems like some of the other species that got out to the stars before and were just furries. Like the lupus and the spidar

Intriguing to say the least. So everything is just the creation of the human's sleeping/dreaming mind which will fade away as he awakens? Interesting concept.

May the Algorithm bless us!

They fought Jason and a Xenomorph

Damn good stuff!

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Wow. What a twist at the end of the vid...

A literal eldritch god

Realy deep, very good story

neat

Young Vishnu is awaking.

Well, that was depressing.

The sleeper must awaken

For the Algorithm11!

For the Algorithm the story and the voice

A retelling of the dreamer with a different dream.

Well I guess this is an HFY story. Technially.

Go for 100000

This story is similar to the thing where we would create a computer simulation with sentient Ai's as the inhabitants, just that this was probably unintentionally by the human.

Algarythm time 🥳

I'd like to think they all pop back into existence again for 8 hours or so per day. A guy's gotta sleep sooner or later.

So, that human is a dreaming great old one?

More comic horrors plz preferably ones beyond man comprehension

Sadge 😢

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This is some fantastic Eldritch horror.

Fta

Llama 🦙

that one was just stupid.

F.A.S.

So who here can't stand this guy's voice, accent or schtick and just reads the story scrolling at 2x speed on mute?