Boys Of Life by Paul Russel

Author:Paul Russel
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

I’ve gone down into some kind of underground cavern. In the dream it’s a carnival ride where you get in this little roller coaster car, and you go by all these scenes of people doing things. It’s supposed to be a horror ride, only the scenes are ordinary scenes from a factory—assembly lines and machines and people working the machines, and the whole place is humming with this quiet powerful hum behind everything, which is the power source for the factory. Then while we’re gliding by these scenes in the little car, I somehow know it’s not a carnival ride, it’s only supposed to look like one. Because actually it’s an underground factory where aliens from outer space are making human beings, and the only reason I’m there is because they don’t think anybody who goes on this ride is going to guess that’s what’s going on down here, so the aliens think they can be safe and get away with what they’re doing right under everybody’s noses.

Then I remember thinking, if the aliens are making all these human beings in this underground factory, then how can you know if the people around you are real, or if they’re just made by the outer space aliens in this factory too? What if everybody around you’s been made by the aliens, and there’s only you left?

And then I’m thinking, what if you can’t tell whether you were made in the factory or not? What if I’m not real either? Then how am I going to know? What if all the human beings in the world are made by aliens in an underground factory and we just think we’re humanbeings but we’re really not? But also we really are, because then that’s all a human being is—something made by aliens in their underground factory. The instant I think that, I know I’ll never be able to know even when I wake up. Because if I was actually down in that underground factory, the aliens did something to my memory to make me think it was only a dream. That’s their way of protecting themselves. I’ll remember it and then I’ll remember it was just a dream I had, so it can’t be real and not to worry. So even if I catch on, like I’m catching on now, still I’ll never know for sure and that’s when I wake up.

I bolted up in bed completely covered in sweat, with this prickling all up and down my arms and legs. They know I know. That’s what I immediately thought. They know I’ve figured it out and they’re out to find me, they’re going to take me down into the factory and re-make me so I won’t remember them.

I lay there completely still for a while. All there was was the hum you hear all the time here at night, I guess it’s the Eddy’s heating system—this humming sound that’s almost regular but not quite. If you listen to it like I do at night, you notice it keeps going in and out of phase with itself.

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