[Schimid]

I still have memories of a dream I had when I was a baby--or maybe I was a baby in the dream. I don't know. All I know is that either I really was a just-born swaddled in light blue textures, or I dreamed I was prior to the events that followed. Either way, it was certainly before I could speak. I think.

I'm inclined to believe the latter, as the dream consisted of a robot Bullwinkle chasing me around an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese, until I found the switch for the basement. A cartoonish trap door dropped into a staircase, which I followed down into a dead end. The last thing I remember was the terror in my heart and Mecha-Bullwinkle careening, slaloming toward me in an empty room, eyes red and angry like a vengeful God mixed with Judge Doom.