"DreamShare" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
episode
Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series
52 min
2 speakers
8 chapters
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What made Evan first fall in love with DreamShare?
Tiedetään tee mua? Haukuttelu on tarttuvaa. Into yöl asioiden hoitoon taas, no, ei niin tarttuvaa. Kun haluat keskittyä yrittämisen innostavampiin puoliin, ulkoista työllisyys varmoihin käsiin, varma.fi kautta yl.
Vaasan sähköä on yli hyvä vaihtoehto! Siksi vaasan sähkölä on asiakkaita joka ikisessä Suomen kaupungissa. Ai vaasan sähkölä. Just niin! Pitkä historia ja yli hyvä hinta vetää puoleen. Siis näinköh? Kurkkaa sopparit, osoittaan. Siis onko rovaniemillä? Siellä ollaan. Tampere, kyllä! Kurka osoitteen! Siis koulusakin on! Ja osoite on.
Hot one. Alright, let me start with this. I'm not here to rant about technology or preach about privacy or whatever. I'm not even here to convince you not to download DreamShare. I know most of you probably already have it, but if you haven't, well, you might want to hear me out. When I first got Dream Share, I thought I'd found the best thing to ever happen to humanity. Imagine this, your own custom dreamscape. You could do anything. See the people you miss, fly through cities, and live out scenes from your favorite movies. No laws of physics, no limits. It was like they took lucid dreaming and cranked it up to a hundred, only with friends and strangers alike joining in. And trust me, at first it was just as amazing as it sounds.
My friend Aaron, my roommate, was actually the one who convinced me to try it. He'd been beta testing it for a couple of months, back when you needed a Neuralink implant to even get access. By the time I signed up, DreamShare had gone public, with brain computer interfaces becoming as common as earbuds. They even had this slogan. Escape the mundane, create the dream of your life and So, like everyone else, I jumped in. I'll admit it, I was nervous the first night, and You know that feeling when you're about to fall asleep and your mind gets all jumpy like it's resisting? Multiply that by a thousand. But Erin reassured me that the app was safe, secure servers, encrypted data, limited access, and hey, who doesn't trust their best friend, right?
The first night was unforgettable. I chose this fantasy city from the app's shared realities selection. A glittering skyline with skyscrapers as tall as mountains, and The AI helped me adjust the details so that when I stepped into it, I felt the grit of asphalt under my feet and smelled the city air. Aaron appeared next to me like magic, all set to guide me through. We spent hours flying over buildings, racing down empty streets, laughing ourselves breathless, and It felt real, more real than anything I'd felt in a long time. For the first time in years I didn't want to wake up. Pretty soon it was our nightly ritual and Erin and I would dive in exploring the pre built worlds of designing our own. I brought in a few other friends too.
Talia. She was a friend I'd always felt this unspoken connection with, you know. And being in those dreamscapes together, it was different. No inhibitions, no awkward pauses. We could be anyone we wanted. That's how DreamShare pulls you in. It gives you this perfect, untouchable reality and lets you think it's yours. Like I said, at first, it was everything the ads promised. But there's always a catch, isn't there? You get a taste of the good stuff right from the get-go, and before you know it, you're in too deep and addicted. And at that point, you'll do anything to keep that dopamine flowing. And they know it. I don't know exactly when things started going wrong, but I remember the first hint of it. We were in this underwater world that Erin and I had created, swimming through these sprawling coral forests, when I felt someone watching me.
Someone I didn't know. I brushed it off, chalking it up to paranoia. After all, it was just me, Erin, and Talia that night. The settings were private, set to friends only. At least that's what I thought. Then, out of nowhere, I spotted this other guy. A shadowy figure hovering just at the edge of my vision. At first I thought he was some strange digital artifact, but then he started moving, swimming around me, watching with his unnatural calm.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What made Evan first fall in love with DreamShare?
0:02–5:41
2
How did the first strange figure appear in Evan’s underwater dream?
5:41–11:15
3
When did Evan realize his private dreams were being exposed in the real world?
11:15–16:38
4
Why did Evan suspect DreamShare was collecting his subconscious data?
16:38–23:04
5
How did the encounter with Aaron at the bar change Evan’s understanding of DreamShare?
23:04–32:07
6
What did Garrett reveal about DreamShare’s hidden “VIP” feature?
32:07–40:15
7
How did Evan attempt to infiltrate DreamShare’s core and confront Dorian?
40:15–50:30
8
What happened after Evan tried to destroy DreamShare’s core and was left alone?
50:30–52:00
Speakers
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