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Item #: SCP-4396
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4396 is locked 3km under the seabed and is surrounded by class D personnel in an encasement method in which class D personnel are placed in 3 different levels.
First level 2.5km underground and 0.5km from SCP-4396
Second level 1.5km underground and 1.5km from SCP-4396
Third level 0.5km underground and 2.5km from SCP-4396
Each level contains 100 class D personnel, that need to be rotated between the levels once every 24 hours. the class D personnel need to be replaced on a once-per-month-or-less basis.
After a month it seems that the class D personnel lose all cognitive functions, their brain and organs still function but all else ceases to function as it should. the loss is gradual, yet the loss of sanity can start in as short a time as a day and so all rotations are done by robots and all class D personnel are in a straitjacket so they couldn’t hurt each other.
Once they get outside they seem to turn back to sanity and gain back their cognitive functions, though that might take anywhere between 6 months and 3 years.
Description: SCP-4396 looks like a skinny, pale, male bearing black hair and a curly black mustache. He wears a top hat and a black and white suit.
SCP-4396 measures at 40kg and 183cm.
SCP-4396 rarely talks. When he does it does not make sense even though it is in English, most of the time.
Anomalous features perceived to come from SCP-4396 are Dream and Memory manipulations with no real limit known.
The Foundation first learned about SCP-4396 at 1920 at the close of the first world war.
After the first world war, the global interest in psychology rose up, simultaneously, there were many reports coming from labs all over the globe talking about people having weird dreams. The dreams all contained one thing in common, just before the subject was about to wake up there was one image that stayed in the head and was forgotten only a few moments after the subject came back to conciseness. An image of a skinny British man with a curly black mustache and a top hat. there was also a name
“Dr. Dream”.
The now known physical manifestation of SCP-4396 was caught by the Foundation at 1959 not long after the moon landing.
SPC-4396 does not age nor does it require food and water.
Addendum 4396-1: SCP-4396 seems to have the ability to always know what people are thinking and what they dreamed about. It seems that he can’t change too much of a memory but has full control of dreams.
Addendum 4396-2: Some of the dreams conjured by SCP-4396 and described by class D personnel in the levels that contain it are as follows:
Walking in a world with all manner of creatures that looked as if they are taken from bedtime stories or legends. such as dragons and giants. however, at the end of the dream, they all become paper versions of the creatures they once were.
Another dream was about a Deer-like creature with a human face and “hexagon brain looking things” around it.
There was a dream about walking in a forest and seeing creatures. When in the dream addressing the forest as “the forest/this forest” the dreamer started feeling like he was losing himself and then the dream ended.
A lot of dreams were more general like just having a happy life or just dreaming about the worst thing that person can think of. While in the dream everything felt so real that when the dreamer came back to consciousness real life felt mute.
A lot of dreams were lost due to most of the dreamers being class D personnel that researchers can see only once a month and dreams get lost way before getting to someone who can write them down.
It is unclear if SCP-4396 has a form of Clairvoyance, if it can see the future or whether SCP-4396’s ability to know what it shouldn’t be able to know, comes from a different place.
Addendum 4396-3: Damage has been afflicted to SCP-4396 in order to observe its response; although it appeared to be damaged like a regular human, all injuries vanished between observations. Attempts to observe SCP-4396 continuously resulted in all afflicted injuries vanishing whenever observation elapsed (when the observers blinked).
When multiple personnel observed SCP-4396 for over 24 hours, its injuries vanish, and all memory of the time is forgotten by the observers. Cameras observing SCP-4396 fail during such periods.
No attempts at killing SCP-4396 were made.
Addendum 4396-4: A few times it seemed as if SCP-4396 got away and then came back a few days later. More than one time the researchers at the site forgot what they were to do at the site and thus had to be replaced. What it did while it was gone is unclear.
Additional Notes: It took the Foundation 40 years to reach the current level of containment. the containment procedure was brought up after one of the Foundation’s researchers dreamed it up and so it is not a trusted containment but it also seems to be the only thing to remotely work.
Symptoms are still observed worldwide though significantly less than pre containment.
The real limits and motivations of SCP-4396 are yet to be understood and so containing it is a top priority.
