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1. Omens of mass death, specifically huge out-of-season swarms of black butterflies, scientifically impossible solar eclipses, or three knocks on doors or on places where knocks were/are used to announce someone's desire to enter a space without anyone there to do the knocking, coinciding throughout the centuries with mass extinctions of cultures or destruction of important cities of the time. Imperilled trade routes becoming impossible to traverse, ancient polities annihilated literally overnight, stable societies vanishing with few traces of materiel and no corpses, these sorts of things.

Documents surrounding these events collected and archived from investigations undertaken by the multiple groups that existed before the start of coalition that would become the SCP Foundation. These apparently unrelated phenomena were initially categorized as many anomalies in the SCP Foundation databases in hard copy/physical forms. As the Foundation had to cope with almost countless issues from its beginnings and usually needed to deal with far more imminent threats, it took many years for the disparate files to be correlated and recognized as one anomaly.

There were a few individuals in the Foundation who suspected this, generally individuals assigned to Safe-rated Sites and scattered Foundation personnel in Records, as well as a large percentage of personnel in the nascent RAISA.

It took the creation of digital computing to definitively realize the extent of the anomaly.

The difficulty with this anomaly is that, up until the late 18th century at the earliest, the anomaly was considered part of standard consensus reality. As science and religion gradually diverged, this anomaly metamorphosed into a threat to consensus reality.

The article will discuss the implication of having to contain these omens. Is the Foundation right to do this? Is this part of consensus reality, anomalous, both?

2. REM sleep only occurs in mammals and birds. Dreams probably started with therapsids in the later Permian era. The SCP Foundation discovered this when one of their Researchers, a palaeontologist specializing in late Paleozoic land vertebrates, experienced unusually vivid dreams that included some identifiable elements associated with the later Permian. The Foundation will learn that the dreams can be triggered by any member of the orders Mammalia or Aves (actual trigger to be determined by the author [me]). The dreams are all set on Earth between the late Permian and Quaternary (paleontological current times) periods. Numerous impossible elements have been observed and described in great detail by Foundation personnel, but no member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens has proven capable of recreating anything observed or experienced in the dreams.

The initially affected Researcher was promoted to Head Researcher for this SCP object, and has been instrumental in uncovering the origins and triggers for the anomaly.

A specialist Task Force, MTF Xi-11 "Thoth's Thoughts", has been assembled from experts in lucid dreaming and trained in Foundation-specific dream combat, designated "Oneiragon". The MTF's goal is disruption of.information passing to dreaming entities by any means necessary - destruction of sentient dream-constructs, fully immersing dreamers in a self-contained MTF constructed alternate dreamscape (akin to waking world submersibles or enclosed environment habitats) for the entirety of the dream, interjecting misinformation about the events the subjects are experiencing, and similar actions.

The dreams are a threat to due to the inclusion of anomalous content, none of which is Info- or Cogitohazardous, but that is remembered in such vivid detail that it's possible even more primitive birds or mammals to advance and/or evolve rapidly. If unchecked, this will result in a SK-Class Dominance Shift scenario within several years (5? 10?). While it's impossible to tell if the anomalous events in the dreams actually happened due to most of the anomalies being impossible to preserve through such a vast stretch of time. Many artifacts were based on soft tissue. Others, such as vehicles and buildings, were made of materials very similar to what's available in the Quaternary - and that itself makes the dreams with those materials anomalous in themselves.

Incidents (general notes) - birds using simple tools similar to Homo habilis. Rabbit setting traps and killing predators - entire packs of coyotes. Crows and ravens squatting in empty houses. Ducks creating small water-side settlements of mud and plant matter, with the ducks organizing things similar to Abbasid caliphate society (less the religion). Only drakes (male ducks) are allowed outside of the houses unescorted, and the drakes are known to ferociously attack any being believed to have observed hens (female ducks). Ever-increasing complexity of mammal and bird behavior. Tech that's physically and materially impossible to build in bird or mammal settlements.

Humans rarely experience any advancements from the dreams.

I plan to include a hypothesis by a researcher associated with this object. The hypothesis will be that Homo sapiens sapiens is an evolutionary dead-end, and that the originating phenomenon is therefore focusing on improving those beings with the greatest potential for progress.