[ WP ] Humans have found a way to record and replay dreams . Recently you found a collection of recorded dreams that focused on you .

There's a word, sonder, for realizing that you are part of the background of someone else's life, a light left on in a window that goes out on its own night after night with no proof that anyone is behind it. That's what it was like watching the dreams. Uploaded like a file to YouTube they had camera angles, cuts, music, varied in length, everything you could imagine. The technology was unknown, as mysterious as its inventor, but we could n't get enough of them. How interesting to see the hazy shadows of half-remembered situations fully formed right there on our screens. 
 
 The snags were covered up fantastically well. The first guy to go nuts over the software was buried quietly in a government cemetery. Saw a couple of nightmares about it, probably from friends of his. Dark shit. Then the woman who was convinced some other guy's dreams were telling her to kill her kids, the lawyer who threw a case out based on a rewatch, and of course the President's shocking pornographic sex dream all chalked up to malfunctions and misattribution. Kinks in a youthful system, the reports said. 
 
 But then why was I seeing up to ten videos a day where I was the star? Leading heroic quests to vanquish dragons, running through an abandoned underground city, falling from a cliff, sitting at Coney Island eating an ice cream cone. Mostly benign, useless stuff, but their owners were strangers to me. 
 
 Soon they came rolling in, hundreds of them. Most were less than ten seconds but it was they long ones that really caught my attention.
