The Oneirovore

CHIIFU I HAD AN IDEA

So, you know how if you go without sleep for too long, you start hallucinating? What if that's because your brain must go through certain routines, including dreaming, to get some excess shit out. So the hallucinations are basically your brain saying "you don't want to go to sleep, fine, I'm gonna make you dream anyway punk". So, what if that's the incident - it's during the time when they're trying to keep him awake, and then he starts hallucinating, and the hallucinations start to gain the ability to interact with the real world, because they're the Oneirovore????

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is currently contained in the REM sleep dream state of Junior Researcher Eric Mattison. Mattison has been provided C-Class lodgings in the Site-11 Oneiric Research Wing.

Updated Procedures: As of 15/07/2024, Mattison has been provided C-Class lodgings in an isolated Secure Wing at Site-11, located 200m away from any other lodging wing. All personnel that come within 60m of Mattison's lodgings must carry at least one self-injecting needle, containing a small dose of DREM-01, to be used immediately if they find themselves likely to enter a REM sleep state. If any personnel encounter a fellow Foundation employee in a REM sleep state within 60m of Mattison's lodgings, they are to wake them immediately by any means necessary. Should aural and impact based methods fail, personnel are to retrieve an emergency adrenaline injector1 and administer it to the subject.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a sapient oneiric environmental entity that possesses the ability to absorb the Oneiric Energy (OE) of anyone within a certain range2 that enters a REM sleep dream state. This ability is difficult to study or make any concrete determinations about due to the necessity of Foundation personnel allowing the entity to absorb their dreams in order to communicate with it directly.

Addendum XXXX-1: Incident Report: 14/07/2024

INCIDENT REPORT XXXX-1

SUMMARY: On 14/07/2024, Site-11 was involved in a major spatial alteration, consisting of objects or otherwise incorporeal entities manifesting from the REM sleep state of other Foundation staff and anomalies within the site. Lockdown Response Code 131/D/Magenta was initiated following the manifestation of such entities and objects.

Five minutes after the Response Code was initiated, MTF μ-13 ("Ghostbusters") were deployed to contain and combat most of the manifested entities. Despite the manifestations initially being unable to interact with corporeal matter, several of them appeared to gain this ability after a period of time.

During this time, MTF 𝝤-12 ("Oneironauts") were unable to locate SCP-XXXX for forty-five minutes. After finding SCP-XXXX within the underground bunker of Site-11 located within the Oneiric Wing, it showed to have suffered heavy sleep deprivation, and was applied a moderate dose of DREM-01 after coming into contact with 𝝤-12. All manifestations disappeared from Site-11 shortly after SCP-XXXX entered REM sleep.

Additionally, SCP-XXXX was moved to a separate wing as a result of this incident.

Addendum XXXX-2: Expedition Log & Incident Report: 19/12/2024

Due to the correlation between Incident-XXXX-02 and the operation taken within SCP-XXXX, both events have been placed under the same addendum.

INCIDENT REPORT XXXX-2

SUMMARY: During operation ("Dreamscaper"), SCP-XXXX affected Site-11 in a spatial alteration, causing the levitation of several objects and manifestation of objects or otherwise incorporeal entities. This effect gradually increased in severity overtime, and appeared to be adjacent to the stress SCP-XXXX underwent during the operation.

As a result, Lockdown Response Code 131/D/Magenta was initiated to limit personnel casualty. On-site officers were initially deployed to combat the manifestation of incorporeal entities, but due to the increasing severity of the situation, half of MTF μ-13 ("Ghostbusters") were deployed.

The other half of μ-13 were stationed to SCP-XXXX's isolated wing, bringing briefcases containing several syringes filled with lorazepam (Ativan). Due to the severity and importance of the operation, the remaining members of μ-13 were tasked with injecting half the contents of lorazepam syringes into SCP-XXXX, should spatial alteration reach a severe degree. This task was to lower the efforts needed to complete operation ("Dreamscaper").

Overseer: Dr. Natalie Kissinger

MTF Squadron: 𝝤-12 ("Oneironauts")

  • Captain Joanna "Clip" Klipsch
  • Agent Paul "Normal" Norman
  • Agent Frederick "Krueger" Coulliard
  • Agent Kira "Big K" Towerstone

Foreword: This expedition was instigated by Director Barnaum after Incident-XXXX-01 on 14/07/2024.3 The team was instructed to enter the oneiric environment currently residing within Mattison's dream state and determine if direct contact with the anomaly could be established.

[BEGIN LOG - Comms and equipment check omitted for brevity]

Captain Klipsch: Alright team, let's go over the plan one more time before we go under. We're going to try to initiate contact with the entity living in Mattison's dream state. We have no information about this thing's abilities, or the extent of its control over the environment. We're going in completely blind, so we need to stay alert in there.

Captain Klipsch places an Oneiric Visualization Matrix (OViM) on her head and motions for her team to do the same.

Normal: This is a hell of a fancy hat, Cap. What's it do?

Krueger: This is an OViM. The team here have been working on it for over a decade, Normal. Do you even read the monthly reports?

Big K: Come on, Krueger, we all know Normal won't read anything that isn't a comic book.

Krueger: Basically, it reads the unique brain waves you produce when in REM sleep and translates them into images. That way, Command can see what's going on in there and record it, rather than us trying to remember a dream.

Normal: So it's a video camera that'll work while we're in the dream. Pretty sweet.

Big K: I could get into the science of why that comparison is so terribly wrong, but we'd be here all night.

Krueger: And he would forget by tomorrow anyway.

Normal: [Laughing] You're not wrong.

Klipsch: TEAM! Focus up. I know it's been a while since we've had an expedition, but this situation is serious. This entity, whatever it is, is clearly more powerful in the oneiric space than anything we've encountered. Yes, that includes you, Krueger. Last I checked, you don't have the ability to manifest yourself in wakespace from inside the dream.

Krueger: [Scoffs] Yet…

Big K: Come on boys, let's put on our nightcaps and hop on the train to sleepy time junction.

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