Disengaged from Reality
When the Dream-drive was finally constructed, it was assumed that all the miseries of humankind would be held permanently in abeyance since the dreams would be coming to populate all the land.
However, such was not the case for the Dream-drive apparently malfunctioned and spewed forth such spontaneously generated, unmitigated catastrophes as the ENDLESS WAR, a formula altering the normal aberration of light, and an obscure form of societal amnesia in which no one could quite recall how to disengage the Dream-drive from reality.
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The Metafictionist 